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Well, classes are in full swing again. It's week two and it already feels like week 8! I'm taking Orgo and Bio, both with labs. My bio class is taught by this ANCIENT man (he's gotta be in his late 80s) who thinks he's actually teaching phyisics... :/ We spent an entire hour deriving the equation for acceleration using calculus... ummmm... I'm not sure how exactly that relates to introductory Biology. He also never posted a grading scale and said we're going to have to do "calculations" on our exams... weird. I know I'm signed up for Bio, but it feels like physics all over again. Orgo is actually going ok! I was dreading the class, but I don't think it'll be too bad... hear me out on this one lol.
Everyone I've talked to about Orgo says that it's not that difficult conceptually, but that it's very time consuming that that there's a lot of information being thrown at you at once. Well, I just finished week one (and had my first exam... I got an A- :) and I can honestly say I spent less time on orgo than I would have on some of my upper-level history courses. I'm guessing that I spent about 10 hours doing chapter 1 and preparing for the short exam/quiz. Assuming that the chapters get longer and more involved, I'm estimating that I'll spend about 15hrs on one chapter. If we do one chapter a week, than that's 15hrs a week of Orgo... 30 hours a week if there's an exam coming up. Well... I spent AT LEAST 20 hours a week reading and writing response papers for my senior capstone history course... when I wrote my thesis I put in a solid 40hrs a week for the last two weeks or so. So there, "science" people lol... Orgo is not the hardest, most difficult, most time-consuming, horrible, class ever. (Hopefully I'm not eating my words in two weeks... I'll keep this updated with my "latest" Orgo thoughts haha).
Honestly, it feels nice to be taking science classes again. While I LOVED history, the classes themselves and the grading were both so subjective (unless of course, you said that The French Revolution was in the 1920s lol). It's nice to have a "right" and "wrong" answer. The subjects themselves, however, are SO BORING. It's a constant struggle for me to stay attentive and not doodling/drooling on my notebook. I know these are the steps I need to take if I want to be a doctor, so I'll but up with science for as long as it takes.
In regards to Philly, I finally feel like I'm getting "settled." It was definitely a bigger adjustment than I anticipated, but things are getting better. I still don't feel like I've made any of my "own" friends and instead rely on Chris to make social plans, but I'm coming to terms with this. It's just unlikely that I'll meet a great friend outside of Chris. I'm STILL not working (and forced to live on Ramen lol), so I don't have the opportunity to meet anyone in a work setting. For classes, I just show up and then peace out. I've made some "class" buddies, but we're all commuters so it's unlikely that we'll be hanging out much outside of class. This, therefore, results in me relying on Chris to introduce me to people. It makes me feel "dependent" on Chris, but I don't know what options I have other than sitting at home like a hermit. An old friend of Chris' (he's known her since elementary school!) is in Philly and she's great. I think we're going to meet up for lunch sometime this weekend... which I'm really looking forward to!
Overall, I'm pretty happy here. I'm very content with my last-minute career change and in general, I like the city. Things with Chris are going well and I'm really looking forward to the future. This year is going to be a BIG YEAR, but I'm mentally prepared and I just want to do well.
Everyone I've talked to about Orgo says that it's not that difficult conceptually, but that it's very time consuming that that there's a lot of information being thrown at you at once. Well, I just finished week one (and had my first exam... I got an A- :) and I can honestly say I spent less time on orgo than I would have on some of my upper-level history courses. I'm guessing that I spent about 10 hours doing chapter 1 and preparing for the short exam/quiz. Assuming that the chapters get longer and more involved, I'm estimating that I'll spend about 15hrs on one chapter. If we do one chapter a week, than that's 15hrs a week of Orgo... 30 hours a week if there's an exam coming up. Well... I spent AT LEAST 20 hours a week reading and writing response papers for my senior capstone history course... when I wrote my thesis I put in a solid 40hrs a week for the last two weeks or so. So there, "science" people lol... Orgo is not the hardest, most difficult, most time-consuming, horrible, class ever. (Hopefully I'm not eating my words in two weeks... I'll keep this updated with my "latest" Orgo thoughts haha).
Honestly, it feels nice to be taking science classes again. While I LOVED history, the classes themselves and the grading were both so subjective (unless of course, you said that The French Revolution was in the 1920s lol). It's nice to have a "right" and "wrong" answer. The subjects themselves, however, are SO BORING. It's a constant struggle for me to stay attentive and not doodling/drooling on my notebook. I know these are the steps I need to take if I want to be a doctor, so I'll but up with science for as long as it takes.
In regards to Philly, I finally feel like I'm getting "settled." It was definitely a bigger adjustment than I anticipated, but things are getting better. I still don't feel like I've made any of my "own" friends and instead rely on Chris to make social plans, but I'm coming to terms with this. It's just unlikely that I'll meet a great friend outside of Chris. I'm STILL not working (and forced to live on Ramen lol), so I don't have the opportunity to meet anyone in a work setting. For classes, I just show up and then peace out. I've made some "class" buddies, but we're all commuters so it's unlikely that we'll be hanging out much outside of class. This, therefore, results in me relying on Chris to introduce me to people. It makes me feel "dependent" on Chris, but I don't know what options I have other than sitting at home like a hermit. An old friend of Chris' (he's known her since elementary school!) is in Philly and she's great. I think we're going to meet up for lunch sometime this weekend... which I'm really looking forward to!
Overall, I'm pretty happy here. I'm very content with my last-minute career change and in general, I like the city. Things with Chris are going well and I'm really looking forward to the future. This year is going to be a BIG YEAR, but I'm mentally prepared and I just want to do well.