Aug
24
Survival!
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Hey Hawkeyes!
Well, I have successfully survived the first week of college, well, almost. I still have two more classes today, but they’re not new classes so they can’t be that bad. Some classes/professors I look forward to more than others. I’ve had a few minor panic attacks. One of which was yesterday at 6:00am when I woke up and thought I had forgotten to take a quiz that was due at 8:00am. I sat up right away (hitting my head on the ceiling) and then realized that yes, I had taken it. It had only been 5 questions and had been very simple which is why it didn’t stick in my brain.
My next panic was today when I looked at my schedule and saw I only had three class. Easy day, plenty of time to get things done. While flipping to the right page in my planner, I flipped to the wrong page and realized that I had written a class down for next week when it was this week too, and 2 hours after the class I was in at the time. Mild panic attack being that I had almost ate lunch and went back to my dorm to work on homework without going to my class. Yes, the teacher probably would have understood that it’s my first week if it wasn’t the class that I had worked so hard to get switched to the Friday session. Missing that on the first day probably wouldn’t have looked too great.
One small tip to close the post: Don’t go out and buy a fancy graphing calculator for college. Most of the Calculus classes won’t let you use it and the Chemistry and other Math classes will let you use it on homework but not on exams(which is where you really need it). So if you’re just starting your senior year of high school, go out and buy a scientific calculator and spend this year getting to know it really well. It will prepare you for college a lot more than learning a graphing calculator and then having to learn a different calculator.
Have a great weekend and recover for next week!
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