Hello and welcome back again to Sigma Nu Zeta Omicron. We are now on count down to the finals!<\/p>\n
Next week I will have my first finals. I\u2019m lucky enough to only have two finals, (well, three if you count my arts class, but it\u2019s 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\u2019m pretty comfortable about both of them, maybe I\u2019m a little more worried about chemistry, but I\u2019m confident for them. The only thing I wasn\u2019t prepared at all, was the evaluation of the courses that you have to make.<\/p>\n
That was very difficult for me, because I usually don\u2019t judge my teachers. I mean, as I grew I learned that it\u2019s not the teacher that needs to adapt to you, it\u2019s you that need to adapt to his\/her way of teaching. If you didn\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n
I know that most people don\u2019t take them seriously or even don\u2019t do them. But as I told before, I do everything I do very seriously, there\u2019s nothing I don\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n
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\u2019t 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\u2019s sad, but it\u2019s true), so I will have to wait for another one next semester. Now for the band\u2026 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.<\/p>\n
Fun fact of the day<\/u><\/strong>– <\/strong>On 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\u2019t even look at the instructor while choosing a course, that just happened naturally and I find it amazing.<\/p>\n Finals are almost here and I\u2019m 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\u2019m 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\u2019s nothing you can do about it afterwards. So the only thing I know for sure is that I won\u2019t be mad if I don\u2019t do well on my finals, although I want to do great, who don\u2019t.<\/p>\n That\u2019s all that I have for today, have a good week and\/or finals, see you next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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\u2019m lucky enough to only have two finals, (well, three if you count my arts class, but it\u2019s not going to be an exam or anything). That was … Continue reading reflections on the finals week<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":6,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campuslife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/90"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}