College Life... 1 Quarter Down, Lots More to Go
Well, college has started again. Winter break was really good. Meant to post about my trip to the East Coast, but didn't really get the chance to do that. Highlights include: just spending time with my family, being an idiot with my cousin (and 5 million random jokes), going to Boston, going to NYC a few times, seeing Hairspray on Broadway and meeting some of the cast (not Lance Bass but Ashley Parker Angel and a few others), and meeting new people. It was a really good trip and I had a lot of fun. Coming back to California was nice too; was able to hang out and see a bunch of people from high school whom I hadn't seen in a long as time.
As for as college goes... it's been fun so far. I've been able to spend a good ammount with my friends... even write now at 3:40 am, we're just chilling. Well I'm blogging and one friend is doing hw and the other is sleeping, but it's nice to have company. As with much of last quarter, I am almost never in my room. Maybe a bit more than the last few weeks of last quarter, but still very rarely.
Classes are a different story. I have a 10 AM math class on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, with a discussion at that time on Thursdays. So far I've missed 3 out of 5 lectures. Probably a bad idea. I set my alarm clock, wake up, shut it off, and go back to sleep. I've been sleeping way too much lately but that obviously has changed tonight/this morning. I've also missed 1 Political Science class and a GE Cluster class, but those were kind of validated because I was kind of sick. Feel asleep in almost every lecture too so basically I'm a horrible student. My classes are pretty allright though. Poltiical Science is really interesting because of the ongoing election and doesn't seem too hard. A lot of US History is like a not so detailed version of APUS so that's chill too. The only thing about those two classes is that there's a lot of reading for the discussions but it's nothing too terrible. I'm interested in the subjects too which makes it good. The second part of my GE Cluster class (Evolution of the Cosmos and Life; it's year long) deals mostly with the formation of life and seems to be really interesting. Calculus seems managable also.
The next few weekends are going to be really busy. There are a lot of quizbowl tournaments (like 4 or 5 in a row on Saturdays), and I'm actually codirecting one of them so that involved quite a bit of work. It's fun though, and one of them is at Stanford which will be a fun trip. Might be going to Berkeley too in February but not sure yet about that. When I don't have a quizbowl tournment, I'll probably be tutoring kids on Saturday mornings (part of this thing I joined last quarter called Project W.I.L.D.) and then chilling with friends/doing hw the rest of the time. The quarter system moves pretty fast; I have midterms in just 2 weeks, and finals not long after that. It's intense but I kind of like it in a way.
On a whole, I'm having a pretty good time here at UCLA. I've made some pretty awesome friends which makes my college experience what it is, and academically, I'm doing allright. Hopefully will start attending more classes, but we'll see about that I guess. College is what you choose to make it. I'm pretty busy with the stuff I do, and sometimes it gets a bit overwhelming, but it's always nice to just take a break and chillax with my friends. I love UCLA and consider coming here one of the best decisions I've ever made.
It's been 3 years exactly since what was one of the most important days in my life. In a not so good way. But things seem pretty good now, and I'm just trying to live life one day at a time. Seems to be working so far.
As for as college goes... it's been fun so far. I've been able to spend a good ammount with my friends... even write now at 3:40 am, we're just chilling. Well I'm blogging and one friend is doing hw and the other is sleeping, but it's nice to have company. As with much of last quarter, I am almost never in my room. Maybe a bit more than the last few weeks of last quarter, but still very rarely.
Classes are a different story. I have a 10 AM math class on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, with a discussion at that time on Thursdays. So far I've missed 3 out of 5 lectures. Probably a bad idea. I set my alarm clock, wake up, shut it off, and go back to sleep. I've been sleeping way too much lately but that obviously has changed tonight/this morning. I've also missed 1 Political Science class and a GE Cluster class, but those were kind of validated because I was kind of sick. Feel asleep in almost every lecture too so basically I'm a horrible student. My classes are pretty allright though. Poltiical Science is really interesting because of the ongoing election and doesn't seem too hard. A lot of US History is like a not so detailed version of APUS so that's chill too. The only thing about those two classes is that there's a lot of reading for the discussions but it's nothing too terrible. I'm interested in the subjects too which makes it good. The second part of my GE Cluster class (Evolution of the Cosmos and Life; it's year long) deals mostly with the formation of life and seems to be really interesting. Calculus seems managable also.
The next few weekends are going to be really busy. There are a lot of quizbowl tournaments (like 4 or 5 in a row on Saturdays), and I'm actually codirecting one of them so that involved quite a bit of work. It's fun though, and one of them is at Stanford which will be a fun trip. Might be going to Berkeley too in February but not sure yet about that. When I don't have a quizbowl tournment, I'll probably be tutoring kids on Saturday mornings (part of this thing I joined last quarter called Project W.I.L.D.) and then chilling with friends/doing hw the rest of the time. The quarter system moves pretty fast; I have midterms in just 2 weeks, and finals not long after that. It's intense but I kind of like it in a way.
On a whole, I'm having a pretty good time here at UCLA. I've made some pretty awesome friends which makes my college experience what it is, and academically, I'm doing allright. Hopefully will start attending more classes, but we'll see about that I guess. College is what you choose to make it. I'm pretty busy with the stuff I do, and sometimes it gets a bit overwhelming, but it's always nice to just take a break and chillax with my friends. I love UCLA and consider coming here one of the best decisions I've ever made.
It's been 3 years exactly since what was one of the most important days in my life. In a not so good way. But things seem pretty good now, and I'm just trying to live life one day at a time. Seems to be working so far.