Halfway point
We're approaching the midpoint of your first semester in college. What has been your biggest surprise so far? Biggest disappointment? What are you thoughts as you ponder what classes to take next semester. Please respond by 9 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 28.
posted by Neal Haldane @ 6:34 AM
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14 Comments:
My biggest surprise has probably been the amount of work that is expected at home. Being home schooled, I have been used to doing my work all at once instead of sitting in class for three hours and then doing six to nine hours of homework. I don't think that I've really had a big disappointment. I have found it difficult to think about what I want to do for the rest of my life when I'm only 18. To make a decision about what will influence my future is a daunting thought. I'm trying to take a little bit of everything so that I can decide what to major in, and so far, it has helped me decide a few things about the next steps in my course of study.
College is pretty much what I expected it to be. The one thing I was surprised with was how much material can be covered on each exam. I'm so used to high school where we would just have had chapter tests, now in college I'm taking tests that cover 5 chapters at a time so that's probably the biggest change and its extremely overwhelming. My major is undecided so at this point I'm really trying to focus on what I want to do with the rest of my life and I'm finding that pretty difficult, other than that I have been doing my best to adjust to college life and I love it so far!
Halfway through college, I think it is pretty much everything I thought it would be. I love being on my own and going to classes according to my schedule. The biggest downfall is the amount of homework and studying time. It is much more work and takes more time than what I had expected. I thought it was very hard to manage both school and work at the same time, but now being halfway through I am starting to get used to it.It was definitely a change at first.
I have been suprised to find that college is not as difficult as I thought it would be. I still do find the work challenging and the assignments large but at this point it does not seem as if is much more difficult than the work expected of me in high-school. This is probably due to two things: first, I had a very challenging homeschooling curriculum which prepared me very well for college; and, secondly, this is only the first semester of college and the general education classes I have been taking are easier than the major-related classes I will have in later semesters. My biggest disappointment so far is with myself. I have not organized my time and put my best effort into my homework. Instead, I often put things off until the night before they are due. One of my goals as I move into the next semester is to manage my time appropriately and to put my best effort into everything I do.
So far college has been awesome. I’m still enjoying being the new freshman and getting to know all the other students in the school. I definitely like the idea that I’m taking classes with people from different age groups, because ever since school I was always in class with people my age. Now I feel like I’m an adult and that I can communicate with people older than me. You don’t have anyone telling you, you’re too young or too old, we are all plain college students now.
I also like how I get to make my own schedule, not having to wake up at 5:30 every day to go to school is such a relief. I have to admit, the biggest surprise was probably the professors.
I would have never guessed that college professors can be as humble and nice as the professors at Madonna. Before I came in I thought my professors were going to be strict and mean but on the contrary they were really nice and heartwarming. I never called any of my teachers with their first name so it’s awesome to be able to do that here because it just brings you closer to your professor and makes you like his class more. To me it’s very important to like your professors because they make a huge impact on whether you like the subject or not. I’ve hated so many classes just because I didn’t like the teacher, that’s why I’m worried about not being comfortable with my next term professors. Especially since I’m undecided it just makes things harder because I feel like I’m not moving forward I’m just sitting there waiting for a door to open so that I can continue with my journey.
Everything that has happened so far, I predicted would happen. I expected to have tons of homework, and I expected to have to study a ton more than I did in high school. I am keeping my options open, I don't know if I want to change my major yet but we'll find out.
College life has been everything i thought it would be, it's diffcult to manage my time, but i knew it would due to soccer and work. I did not expect at all the amount of home work that I had to do, but besides that it's not that bad so far
I haven't really been that surprised by college up until this point much actually. The workload is currently less than my last semester of high school. I'm doing a good job, I believe in managing my time enen though I think I could go for some better studying skills. I haven't been really disappointed at all and I'm really pleased with my classes for th most part being even more personable then in high school. I have a pretty decent schedule next semester which involves 3 gen-eds and one class that will be toward my minor so I'm not really complaining.
I think my biggest surprise is that i am always doing something now, there is no off time because if I’m not in school or at work I’m doing homework. I think my biggest disappointment is the same thing because I don’t really get any time to just relate. next semester is coming up fast and I don’t really want to think about, I’m just trying to keep focus on this semester.
My biggest surprise is how much effort it takes to keep up in all of my classes. I have already learned that I can not do bare minimum work. My biggest disappointment is probably having to drive so far every morning to get to class, other than that i have no complaints. Next semester I have thought about taking up classes in broadcast as well as graphic design.
Craig Hejka
There wasn't that much that suprised me. I pretty much expected college to be the way it is. In my classes now there isn't as much homework as i thought there was going to be. There is still a lot but i thought i was going to be doing homework 5 times as bad. As far as scheduling for next semester, i honestly don't know what to schedule. I don't necessarily know what i really need to graduate.
I'm pretty pleased with the way things are going. I don't think I'm really surprised by anything though, it's just about as I expected. Theres a lot of independent work involved, but I think that's normal. I guess I could say I'm a bit disappointed with the class selection. I tried to register for next semester not too long ago, and have of the classes I want I can't take. It's not that they're full, it's just that they're not even being offered then, and who knows when they will be. I was looking foward to taking all the Japanese courses so I could learn the language, but there's only one class a semseter, and it picks up from this one. It seems like I'll have to wait an entire year before I can even take it. Things like that bother me. It throws me off big time because I kind of feel like I'm still in high school, with only a certain range of classes I can take. Out of the 5 I wanted, only two are only being offered. Overall though, I'm having a good time and making new friends.
College is a little harder than what I expected to to be, but my biggest disappointment would have to be my first test. I failed it miserably. but I never thought I would go into bio anyways so Im not really to concerned. So far it looks like Im going to be sucked into business. But I shouldnt worry about that right now and try to enjoy life now and maybe get a few parties in. I meant, college is really influencing my life.
Ah the halfpoint, both a surprise and a realization. The surprise is that I've enjoyed Madonna University, whereas before I thought it would be Hell.
The realization, the fact that I have just a little bit of time of school left, and therefore can't screw up any way what so ever.
I must say though, I've definitely enjoyed my time at Madonna. The teachers seem like actual people instead of automated computers only there to teach and nothing else. The school feels...enlightening. I feel proud being there.
Also, the Take5 is awesome.
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