I'm doing alright...
After such a hard time with Calc 1, I can honestly say I'm pleased with myself for doing quite well in Calc 2 so far. Given I can always do better but after the 2nd exam I felt like a million bucks. I managed to get the highest grade in the class with an 89 and the class average was like mid 40s. After my crappy and mediocre first exam score of 65, I was ecstatic to get a really good grade. I studied hard for it and tried really hard to do well. My class load may not be much but I keep myself busy with school activities and other things such as events with SAC(Student Activities Council, Steel Bridge competition with ASCE(American Society of Civil Engineers), and I kind of work out like a madman everyday. People have tried to downplay my score with saying "Oh no wonder you can study and do well with Calc 2, you don't have that many hard classes", and to myself I know I don't have that many hard classes this semester but I also believe anyone can do what I did on the exam if they studied hard enough.
My classes this semester are:
CE350 Transportation Engineering
MATH112 Calculus 2
MGMT390 Principles of Management
PE Circuit Training
HUM211 Studies of the Pre-Modern World
This is me bitching a bit but in my defense, I write stuff for my HUM211 class all the time, my Management class makes me do project stuff and work on papers as well, and Transportation is a really oddball of a class that makes me do other forms of work. It might not be exactly hard but it can be time consuming plus all the above mentioned activities. It's not my fault they couldn't get themselves a good schedule so they could focus on this class which I considered to be the utmost importance. I knew Calc 2 would be tough so I prepared my schedule so I could concentrate on it. I managed my time decently and I executed. And the results speak for themselves.
"First you decide.... And then you carry it through. Thats the only way to accomplish anything."
I'm trying to live by this phrase as much as I can and follow through with it.
To all those haters who downplayed what I accomplished, go fuck yourself and learn something. Go bitch to someone who gives a damn and cry all you want because in the end all you accomplished was make yourself a typical kid who should've never came to college. Truth hurts and this is your reality check.
And wow next semester might suck but gotta get through it. So far I got the classes I needed but I might drop one depending on what the course load is like for my other main classes.
Next semester I'm taking:
CE321 Water Resources
ENE262 Intro to Environmental Engineering
MECH235 Statics
MATH211 Calculus IIIA
MATH225 Survey of Probabilities and Statistics
PE242 Intro to Racquetball
EPS202 Society, Technology, and Environment (this one I might drop but the teacher is supposed to be mad easy)
17 credits altogether, plus the activities I'm in now. Sounds like a lot but hopefully it won't be as bad as it seems. Wish me luck :)
My classes this semester are:
CE350 Transportation Engineering
MATH112 Calculus 2
MGMT390 Principles of Management
PE Circuit Training
HUM211 Studies of the Pre-Modern World
This is me bitching a bit but in my defense, I write stuff for my HUM211 class all the time, my Management class makes me do project stuff and work on papers as well, and Transportation is a really oddball of a class that makes me do other forms of work. It might not be exactly hard but it can be time consuming plus all the above mentioned activities. It's not my fault they couldn't get themselves a good schedule so they could focus on this class which I considered to be the utmost importance. I knew Calc 2 would be tough so I prepared my schedule so I could concentrate on it. I managed my time decently and I executed. And the results speak for themselves.
"First you decide.... And then you carry it through. Thats the only way to accomplish anything."
I'm trying to live by this phrase as much as I can and follow through with it.
To all those haters who downplayed what I accomplished, go fuck yourself and learn something. Go bitch to someone who gives a damn and cry all you want because in the end all you accomplished was make yourself a typical kid who should've never came to college. Truth hurts and this is your reality check.
And wow next semester might suck but gotta get through it. So far I got the classes I needed but I might drop one depending on what the course load is like for my other main classes.
Next semester I'm taking:
CE321 Water Resources
ENE262 Intro to Environmental Engineering
MECH235 Statics
MATH211 Calculus IIIA
MATH225 Survey of Probabilities and Statistics
PE242 Intro to Racquetball
EPS202 Society, Technology, and Environment (this one I might drop but the teacher is supposed to be mad easy)
17 credits altogether, plus the activities I'm in now. Sounds like a lot but hopefully it won't be as bad as it seems. Wish me luck :)