So about a month and a half ago I finished my first year of college. Anyone who has finished their first year of college can tell you it’s a huge relief. College can be very fun but yet very stressful. The work is challenging. It is college for that reason. I was taking a full load of classes knowing I can handle it. The only hard part was passing my Spanish tests. I went to my teacher as told by many people that I should and talked to her as what I should do to get my grade higher. The main thing I got out of talking to her is socialize less and study more. Anyone who is a college student knows that socializing while at school is necessary. There needs to be some fun involved. The point that needs to be made is that socializing may be fun but priorities need to come first. You are a student for a reason and that is your job. If you don’t do well in your classes that is your money that you are spending.
- Tatiana
Posts Tagged ‘College’
Freshman Year – Complete!
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
College is Really About The Decorative Options
Monday, June 13th, 2011
This August, I and millions of other 18-year-olds are heading off to college. While this entails some important, vexing decisions, chief among them is what to buy for my dorm room. Among the controversial and fraught issues are mini-fridge-importance, microwave merits, and the ever crucial choices among myriad linens, pillows, and comforters. And that’s not even getting into lava lamp considerations. I’ve spoken to friends who are freshmen this year, and the consensus seems to be that fridges and microwaves are somewhat overrated, unless you like cheese sticks and microwave burritos, respectively. I’ve also been advised that college mattresses approximate cardboard in comfort level, and that it would be wise to bring foam padding to lessen this misfortune. Buying up bedding made me give thought to the fact that I’ve never actually considered the quality of my pillows before, and I am both sad to realize how much time has been wasted with bad pillows, and hopeful for a future of feather-filled comfort. Buying stuff for college may seem like an expensive chore, but it’s also an opportunity to express some newly acquired autonomy and independence, and to get that shag rug you’ve always wanted.
- Will
A Summer Education
Monday, May 9th, 2011
For the past two summers in college, I pretty much stayed home and did nothing with a couple occasions of going out to hang out with friends. However, this summer I decided that I should try and look for other activities to get involved in such as research or summer school. Previously, summer school was always associated with failing a class and having to retake it. But it’s different in college. Summer school is a choice to make. With this I hope to get ahead in my course work and perhaps in a summer in the near future, I’ll be able to study abroad somewhere before I leave my undergraduate life. However, it will be more difficult than regular classes because of the condensed curriculum — what is usually covered in 15 weeks of school now has to be covered in 4 weeks or 8 weeks, at least that’s the scheduling for summer school at my school. Can I do this I wonder?
- Vivian
Let Me Learn!
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
For most colleges in America, students are required to take a set of “General Education” classes which are supposed to make you a more well-rounded person. For the most part, there’s a huge selection of classes for each category that they want fulfilled. Here’s the issue I face though: my university doesn’t offer art classes for anyone who isn’t an art major. Don’t you think it’s a little silly? You can take basic economics if you’re not an economics major, you can take basic communications classes if you’re not a communications major, you can even take general chemistry without being a chemistry major. Yet they put restrictions on art classes? I find that to be a bit ridiculous. Heck, they even have a bunch of English and theatre classes for nonmajors, and that’s another type of art just like drawing and painting but apparently those are okay for nonmajors to participate in but not this art. And I know other colleges have art classes for nonmajors; I wonder what’s up with my university — anyone else have classes they want to take but are restricted from?
- Vivian