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Yup.
So I am now in college.
And my first two classes are ridiculous.
First year experience = EASY. Kristy is in it so it's decent that I know someone.
Math is a joke, or at least tonight's homework was. It's all stuff I did in 8th grade. Like.. commutative and associative properties, and the order of operations?! It took me a whole 30 mins to do like 100 problems while talking to Andrew in my kitchen. I hope I'm not jinxing myself though; it's a good review I suppose and I hope it's easy the whole semester so I can refresh myself and be prepared for a harder class in the spring.
Psychology offered an unexpected change - my instructor is not Stephen Weiss but instead is the head of psychology and who I have heard to be a nut Pamella Karol. At least she seems.. energetic. But is CRAZY with the reading assignments which are enormous and boring. Thank goodness I had somewhat of a background with psych from NFA even if that class, too, was a joke.
Last of all is English Comp. 101, which so far seems decent. Becky is in it, and so is PJ so I know a total of 2 people from NFA there. Whatever. The instructor likes to curse but he seems pretty nice and laid back. Plus I've been told that if I managed 2 years of Jennings' classes with A averages, I will do fine in his class. Except.. I have to read an essay and write a page reaction, and have a paper due in like 2 weeks. But whatever.
At least the classes seem.. like a lot of work, but at least manageable.
I kind of started wondering today what it would have been like had I gone away to say, UCONN or Keene or something. Part of me wishes I hadn't stayed behind. But most of my friends are still here, granted some are still in highschool or what not, but still.. I guess there's always life after Three Rivers to experience that indepence of a college student living away from home.
Well, whatever. I should get back to my load of homework. Going from a senior in highschool where each day consists of 50% senior lounges with an entire group of your friends and hardly any homework and a final paper requiring a maximum of 5 typed, double-spaced pages to 100 math problems, 14 text book pages of psych and 44 the next night, a 12 page essay, and a full page journal response is a hard change. But I'll deal. I guess it wasn't that bad, and after all, I am only going two days a week..
I am beginning to wonder whether I should switch to graphic design next semester and take all computer classes since that's really what I am good at. We'll see, we'll see.
So I am now in college.
And my first two classes are ridiculous.
First year experience = EASY. Kristy is in it so it's decent that I know someone.
Math is a joke, or at least tonight's homework was. It's all stuff I did in 8th grade. Like.. commutative and associative properties, and the order of operations?! It took me a whole 30 mins to do like 100 problems while talking to Andrew in my kitchen. I hope I'm not jinxing myself though; it's a good review I suppose and I hope it's easy the whole semester so I can refresh myself and be prepared for a harder class in the spring.
Psychology offered an unexpected change - my instructor is not Stephen Weiss but instead is the head of psychology and who I have heard to be a nut Pamella Karol. At least she seems.. energetic. But is CRAZY with the reading assignments which are enormous and boring. Thank goodness I had somewhat of a background with psych from NFA even if that class, too, was a joke.
Last of all is English Comp. 101, which so far seems decent. Becky is in it, and so is PJ so I know a total of 2 people from NFA there. Whatever. The instructor likes to curse but he seems pretty nice and laid back. Plus I've been told that if I managed 2 years of Jennings' classes with A averages, I will do fine in his class. Except.. I have to read an essay and write a page reaction, and have a paper due in like 2 weeks. But whatever.
At least the classes seem.. like a lot of work, but at least manageable.
I kind of started wondering today what it would have been like had I gone away to say, UCONN or Keene or something. Part of me wishes I hadn't stayed behind. But most of my friends are still here, granted some are still in highschool or what not, but still.. I guess there's always life after Three Rivers to experience that indepence of a college student living away from home.
Well, whatever. I should get back to my load of homework. Going from a senior in highschool where each day consists of 50% senior lounges with an entire group of your friends and hardly any homework and a final paper requiring a maximum of 5 typed, double-spaced pages to 100 math problems, 14 text book pages of psych and 44 the next night, a 12 page essay, and a full page journal response is a hard change. But I'll deal. I guess it wasn't that bad, and after all, I am only going two days a week..
I am beginning to wonder whether I should switch to graphic design next semester and take all computer classes since that's really what I am good at. We'll see, we'll see.