First Weeks of Classes Fall 2009
It’s a beautiful Sunday afternoon. School just started a week ago. It was fun. I love my dorm life and my classes. I wish I transfered here a long time ago. Life has been so good to me. Good things keep on coming my way. I met tons of new people. I love my roommate. She’s so nice and we share lots of interests. I met three other girls, and I hang out with them most of the time. It just happened that one of them was in the same major that I was in plus we got a class together, so its working out really well.
I enjoy the classes I have. Its kind of demanding compared to most of my classes from previous semesters, but its manageable. I’m taking four education classes. I’m so glad I’m done with my gen eds. It’s all out of the way. I got too many things to do. Lots of observation hours, lots of chapters ahead to read and lots of papers to write. One of my classes required me to create a website, and to have an interview with a teacher for professional development suggestions. It’s a very good program. I feel so grateful that I’m studying at the university I’ve wanted to go to since 2005. It’s worth it.
There’s going to be a job fair this coming Tuesday. I hope I can get a job. I will try to edit my resume today and print out a few copies. Hopefully, I get something there. I don’t want to work the whole 17 hours, but if I had to add up some hours to pay my loans, I don’t mind.. it’s a lot of work. its really different compared to my previous courses because I’m already concentrating on my major. I need to maintain my GPA so that I can continue getting those funding. I just got lucky that things started to go my way. it took awhile before things turned out this way. I had to do loads of paper works and countless phone calls just to clarify things with the rehabilitation counselor, but ti was worth it.
My dorm room is in the honors floor. Huh, I’m surprised to be randomly selected for this floor, but Thank God I got this floor. The people here are really nice and helpful. They are very accepting and smart. I’m happy to be here.
My first week of classes was a bit overwhelming. The syllabus for each class was 7 to 12 pages. The homework assignment as usual looked really challenging, but since all my classes are geared to one field, they are all connected. Hopefully, three years from now, I can get my teacher’s certification and start teaching at a public high school or Jacksonville. I’ve always wanted to teach there. I went there for the weekend four years ago, and saw their facilities. It was horrible. I did not like how they implemented teaching and learning in the school for the blind at Jacksonville. I think this is the turning point where I decided on majoring in Special Education in Vision. My parents would always disagree with my profession and would try to persuade me into changing my major, but I love what I’m doing and I really find a great connection between my life with a visually impairment and my major.
My life has changed a lot after all that had happened to me. Now, me and my parents get along. Honestly, I miss my mom and I really miss being at home. I never felt this way toward my house and my family, but now I do. I remember when I used to want to party and take lots risks and crazy adventures. I don’t do those things anymore. I don’t know what had happened to me. I go to class, go back to my dorm, read my textbooks and follow these routine the whole week. I attend school functions and club activities, but I’m not interested in going out or clubbing, drinking, and going to frat parties. There’s more productive things that I can spend my time with than going to those lame parties. I don’t know whats the deal with people dressing up for parties just to get wasted and sleep at a different room the following day. I heard several complain down the hallway from different people. they were all complaining about how their roommates came home the following day with a guy. Of course, if they want to have sex, they can, but why would they do it in their own room? I don’t know whats up with people doing it the first day. Its so disturbing. If that’s what alcohol does to people, count me off the list. There are lots of freshman’s that went to parties and lost their inhibitions after drinking alcohol. Its okay to drink but not all the time and not to the point of loosing yourself in the process. You can tell what a person values by how they spend their time.
I enjoy the classes I have. Its kind of demanding compared to most of my classes from previous semesters, but its manageable. I’m taking four education classes. I’m so glad I’m done with my gen eds. It’s all out of the way. I got too many things to do. Lots of observation hours, lots of chapters ahead to read and lots of papers to write. One of my classes required me to create a website, and to have an interview with a teacher for professional development suggestions. It’s a very good program. I feel so grateful that I’m studying at the university I’ve wanted to go to since 2005. It’s worth it.
There’s going to be a job fair this coming Tuesday. I hope I can get a job. I will try to edit my resume today and print out a few copies. Hopefully, I get something there. I don’t want to work the whole 17 hours, but if I had to add up some hours to pay my loans, I don’t mind.. it’s a lot of work. its really different compared to my previous courses because I’m already concentrating on my major. I need to maintain my GPA so that I can continue getting those funding. I just got lucky that things started to go my way. it took awhile before things turned out this way. I had to do loads of paper works and countless phone calls just to clarify things with the rehabilitation counselor, but ti was worth it.
My dorm room is in the honors floor. Huh, I’m surprised to be randomly selected for this floor, but Thank God I got this floor. The people here are really nice and helpful. They are very accepting and smart. I’m happy to be here.
My first week of classes was a bit overwhelming. The syllabus for each class was 7 to 12 pages. The homework assignment as usual looked really challenging, but since all my classes are geared to one field, they are all connected. Hopefully, three years from now, I can get my teacher’s certification and start teaching at a public high school or Jacksonville. I’ve always wanted to teach there. I went there for the weekend four years ago, and saw their facilities. It was horrible. I did not like how they implemented teaching and learning in the school for the blind at Jacksonville. I think this is the turning point where I decided on majoring in Special Education in Vision. My parents would always disagree with my profession and would try to persuade me into changing my major, but I love what I’m doing and I really find a great connection between my life with a visually impairment and my major.
My life has changed a lot after all that had happened to me. Now, me and my parents get along. Honestly, I miss my mom and I really miss being at home. I never felt this way toward my house and my family, but now I do. I remember when I used to want to party and take lots risks and crazy adventures. I don’t do those things anymore. I don’t know what had happened to me. I go to class, go back to my dorm, read my textbooks and follow these routine the whole week. I attend school functions and club activities, but I’m not interested in going out or clubbing, drinking, and going to frat parties. There’s more productive things that I can spend my time with than going to those lame parties. I don’t know whats the deal with people dressing up for parties just to get wasted and sleep at a different room the following day. I heard several complain down the hallway from different people. they were all complaining about how their roommates came home the following day with a guy. Of course, if they want to have sex, they can, but why would they do it in their own room? I don’t know whats up with people doing it the first day. Its so disturbing. If that’s what alcohol does to people, count me off the list. There are lots of freshman’s that went to parties and lost their inhibitions after drinking alcohol. Its okay to drink but not all the time and not to the point of loosing yourself in the process. You can tell what a person values by how they spend their time.