Most of you guys probably don't know that I moved into university dorms last week and started school today. Well, now you guys know. :P I suppose since it's fresh in my mind, I should give a brief account of what happened today, partly for you college-bound high schoolers (I know there are several, come to USC! We'll all be one happy ASB Vets Family!! XD) to show how life is eer... sorta like, and partly just for my own records and since I've learned to BS so much that I need to BS on my first day of school. So anyway! My classes include:
General Organismal Biology: This was my first class, and, in comparison with the other classes I'm taking, perhaps the most "expected" out of my classes. What I mean by expected is that all the rules and syllabus that they went over seemed pretty expected. I knew college was a bit different from high school and raised my expectations, and in general, general bio showed it. (haha, pun :P ) One thing that was kind of surprising, though, was the grading curve they presented. Now, at first it seemed optimistic, except that our lab instructor is a pretty pessemistic person and put it in a more negative view. Generally, its like this: the top 10% of the class, no matter WHAT their score is, gets an A. The rest gets below an A, no matter what their score is. In essence, its a huge promoter of competition in our class, which already pretty huge. This means even if I get 900 points out of 915 poinnts (total amount of points in the class), if 10% of the class has 905 to 915 points, I get a B... or worse, possibly. Period, no questions asked. O.O This is going to be tough.... ;_;
General Chemistry: The first 15 minutes flew over my head, and it took me a while to gather what they said. In general, they told me to get a list of items and this is what we're supposed to do for homework and this is how tests are examed in this form of sentence that I just presented to you really really quickly without me having enough time to process everything in my mind before they went on to the next section.
SO!
But after that, it was... very very surprising. I have a hunch that, besides the hard work and the harder tests, I'm going to like this class. The first day of class we poured liquid nitrogen on carpet floors, broke brittle flowers, and blew up balloons filled with Hydrogen and Oxygen. Wow, much different from my own chem class at High School. It was fun.
Writing: Arg, I STILL have to take writing after all my torture in High School IB English??? AAAAAAAARRRGGGGGG... To make things worse, this class comes at 12 - 12:50, a very inconvenient time, because that's usually lunch time. Plus, from 11 to 12 I have no class, and from 1 to 2 I have no class, so its smack right in the middle of lunchtime. Not only that, this class is FAR from my residential suites (yes, I live in suites :P) so I have to go ALL the way there, and if I want to get something, ALL the way back. Which is bad, especially since today I went to the right building on time, but forgot my registration schedule and had no idea what room to go into. My gosh this was was bad, I had to go ALL the way back to my dorm and get it... luckily, I had a bike so I wouldn't have been as late as I might have been if I didn't, but still... 15 minutes late. I BLAME THIS ALL ON ENGLISH!!! >.<
And the scary thing about it is... I think I might like this class. T_T It seems mostly revolved around debates and opinions and it coincides with my next class I'll talk about, so the essay topics I'm going to be writing about might actually be... interesting. o.o You know what's also weird? The teacher doesn't penalize for late papers. Although after a paper is late for a week you have to talk with him, but still! No Penalties! For late papers!! CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT??? AND I'M IN COLLEGE!!!
*ahem* ok next class, and last "countable" class on my list.
Environmental Studies! Social Impacts based on the environment! And something like that: The teacher of this class is pretty crude and unconventional, and also highly sarcastic and humorous. That's a plus :P However this class requires me to read the newspaper everyday. -_-;; This is an annoyance. But overall the class seems to talk about very interesting issues, and holds debates every week. Though, this lecture class was a lot more huge than I thought it would be... Whatever. I'll see what comes of it.
Now, the last thing I want to be doing is dropping classes. >.< I never had that experience, and I hope I never will. Yes, if you ask my number 1 college fear, its not being able to follow a class. Right now it seems okay, and I feel kinda humbled because I'm not taking any "honors" courses (yes, there are a few honors courses that are said to be better etc.) but, as one of the advisors told me, to take a regular class and get an A is a lot better than to take an honors and get a B. So, right now I'm not asking too much and making much sarcastic comments... I'm just going to try and work hard, balance my time, and hopefully do well in college.
Balance my time, meaning, of course... work and RO.
>.<
RO...so...fun... must control playtime...
But I have no work for today and a whole day off tomorrow, so.... PLAYTIME!!! XP