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seiberwingSo, first week report of college.
Roomie is nice, although she's a touch OCD (literally) and makes her bed every time she leaves the room and is excrutiatingly neat. She put all my dishes in a neat little pile near the sink before I got there. It's not her boyfriend in the service, it's several of her friends, but you were close. I sense incoming tension if she encounters the Socialist Union here.
Book prices are horrendous. I've spent over $650 just on them, and over a hundred was just for my Organic Chem book. *is so glad we can sell them back at the end of the semester*
Classes...therein lies a funny story. See, I tried to get into Chadwick's Academic Writing class. She is a rather scary woman with a brutal sense of humor (read: poking fun at students at the expense of their dignity). When she asked how many students were trying to get into her class, five of us raised our hands and she kicked us all out. So I went whimpering to my advisor, who pulled up my record...and found out that my AP score in AP Senior English actually exempted me from that class anyway. Not only that, but my collected hours from my various AP tests combined with my hours last year gives 33 hours. I am, technically, already a sophmore.
At any rate, I didn't feel like just taking 12 hours this semester even if I didn't need more, so I've added a 4 hour Ancient History class (also a prerequisite, so I'm getting more stuff out of the way) to my schedule as a replacement and dumped Health and Fitness for now.. The teacher there seems pretty cool and I think I'll like the class.
Organic Chemistry is renowned as being the sort of class that doesn't use lube, but I'm getting a tutor assigned to me. It might not be as bad as all that.
My Research Methods I teacher also seems to be pretty cool, if silly. He referenced Contact on the first day of class, so he can't be all bad. He's like Mr. Froening's more interesting twin, in some respects.
Roomie is nice, although she's a touch OCD (literally) and makes her bed every time she leaves the room and is excrutiatingly neat. She put all my dishes in a neat little pile near the sink before I got there. It's not her boyfriend in the service, it's several of her friends, but you were close. I sense incoming tension if she encounters the Socialist Union here.
Book prices are horrendous. I've spent over $650 just on them, and over a hundred was just for my Organic Chem book. *is so glad we can sell them back at the end of the semester*
Classes...therein lies a funny story. See, I tried to get into Chadwick's Academic Writing class. She is a rather scary woman with a brutal sense of humor (read: poking fun at students at the expense of their dignity). When she asked how many students were trying to get into her class, five of us raised our hands and she kicked us all out. So I went whimpering to my advisor, who pulled up my record...and found out that my AP score in AP Senior English actually exempted me from that class anyway. Not only that, but my collected hours from my various AP tests combined with my hours last year gives 33 hours. I am, technically, already a sophmore.
At any rate, I didn't feel like just taking 12 hours this semester even if I didn't need more, so I've added a 4 hour Ancient History class (also a prerequisite, so I'm getting more stuff out of the way) to my schedule as a replacement and dumped Health and Fitness for now.. The teacher there seems pretty cool and I think I'll like the class.
Organic Chemistry is renowned as being the sort of class that doesn't use lube, but I'm getting a tutor assigned to me. It might not be as bad as all that.
My Research Methods I teacher also seems to be pretty cool, if silly. He referenced Contact on the first day of class, so he can't be all bad. He's like Mr. Froening's more interesting twin, in some respects.
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Date: 2007-01-21 05:31 pm (UTC)Book prices *are* obscene -- captive audience and all that crap.
New roomie?
Good luck!
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Date: 2007-01-21 06:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-21 08:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-21 08:19 pm (UTC)*embarrassed* Because my parents want me to at least prepare for med school and my advisor said you needed to take that class in order to do so.
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Date: 2007-01-22 01:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-22 01:19 am (UTC)...is that good or bad?
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Date: 2007-01-22 01:43 am (UTC)I'd go give it a whirl. It just might float your boat -- and then you can say "nanny-nanny poo-poo" to all the nay-sayers! :-D If after you go for a week or two, and it's *not* going to float your boat, then drop it.
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Date: 2007-01-22 01:47 am (UTC)I figure I'm in it, I might as well make the most of it.
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Date: 2007-01-22 02:51 am (UTC)Based on personal experience -- don't be so afraid to say "no" that you shoot yourself in the foot. Once screwed, a GPA is not easy to rebuild. There are worse things in the world than dropping a class.
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Date: 2007-01-22 02:53 am (UTC)