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reflections on the finals week

Hello and welcome back again to Sigma Nu Zeta Omicron. We are now on count down to the finals!

Next week I will have my first finals. I’m lucky enough to only have two finals, (well, three if you count my arts class, but it’s not going to be an exam or anything). That was only possible because I finished my math class early. My finals are ESL-reading and Chemistry, I’m pretty comfortable about both of them, maybe I’m a little more worried about chemistry, but I’m confident for them. The only thing I wasn’t prepared at all, was the evaluation of the courses that you have to make.

That was very difficult for me, because I usually don’t judge my teachers. I mean, as I grew I learned that it’s not the teacher that needs to adapt to you, it’s you that need to adapt to his/her way of teaching. If you didn’t like a teacher on my school, there was nothing you could do about it except for learning to like him. So, after a couple of classes with a certain professor I can get how his/her teaching method is like and adapt to it. Hence, these evaluations were very difficult for me, since I became so used to their way of teaching and cannot easily find any good or bad points about it.

I know that most people don’t take them seriously or even don’t do them. But as I told before, I do everything I do very seriously, there’s nothing I don’t give importance in my life. On the other hand it was cool to be the one grading and not the graded. It was the first time that I actually had the chance to give a grade to a teacher or even write comments about what I thought about his/her course.

The finals week made me start to reflect about the next semester and about this one too. Of all the expectations I had for this one, there are only two things that I wasn’t able to fulfill. To join the volleyball team and to start a band of some friends. The volleyball is very simple, I missed the tryouts date, (yup, I know it’s sad, but it’s true), so I will have to wait for another one next semester. Now for the band… I have no idea what I will do. I will have to think of something for the next semester. I will have a Beatles class, so maybe this will help me find other people that want to start a band.

Fun fact of the dayOn an incredible coincidence, all my professors and TAs on this semester are men. But on the next semester, all of them are women. I didn’t even look at the instructor while choosing a course, that just happened naturally and I find it amazing.

Finals are almost here and I’m already getting prepared. I really hope I do well, I currently have good grades on my courses, but if I do score badly on my final that can destruct all the work I have done so far. Incredibly I’m not concerned. I have never been as relaxed for important exams as I am now. I will try to do my best, but in the end it will be what it have to be, and there’s nothing you can do about it afterwards. So the only thing I know for sure is that I won’t be mad if I don’t do well on my finals, although I want to do great, who don’t.

That’s all that I have for today, have a good week and/or finals, see you next week.

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