Out of the box!

Coming to Southern as a freshman was a bit intimidating, new environment, new faces, more independence and all the feelings a nervous freshman could ever have. I was frankly as scared as a cat about to be dunked in water. Throughout the days and classes I had broke out of my shell just a bit, by making new friends that I love and cherish. So far throughout the semester I've learned about myself that even though I'm painfully shy, I usually understand material if I engage in class more, with questions as to how we have come to that solution or when just listening to other's people thoughts, I never realized how close minded I was. Most times when I read books I am uninterested in, I tend to get the gist of them and just basically sum up in my head what the whole point of the story was. But when I get to class and listen to everyone's summaries I'm like "Wow i never thought of it that way." Which helps me have a better understanding of the book/article. Some of my common challenges is actually Math, the Mental Abuse To Humans, as fellow friends would classify it is, time management and commuting by train. Now with Math I have learned that in order for me to understand the formulas and procedures of how to solve a specific equation, I have to actually do some work, besides copying from the board. So I started doing some My Math Lab problems and actually writing in my unwritten Math workbook, for the 2nd time this whole semester. With teachers they teach in certain ways, like using common methods that we should know about but sometimes I'm new to this method and I usually ask my friend, that explains it in a different way that I could understand. So now my grade is actually better than I expected, esp. how my grade was starting at the beginning of the semester. Commuting? I want someone to live my life for a day, they would say "how do you do it?" because its so hectic, I do so much to get there early enough, wait long enough and end up to class late. Being late is not my cup of tea, I actually HATE being late and I would avoid it if all possible. Overcoming this challenge is just accepting the fact that the shuttle schedule will never change, the trains will not always be on time, the bus will never be on time (sadly) and other uncontrollable transportation issues. Time management? Who doesn't have a problem with that? No seriously though. This was a huge issue for me at the beginning of the semester, juggling homework, commuting time, sleeping, eating, walking my dog, going to work and what little social life I have. The solution I have to this is staying up long periods of nights which will probably end in death. LOL j,k. Well  next semester I made my schedule so that it would work around my job, even though I'll be going to classes in the late afternoon, which means getting home late, I'll have the whole night and next morning to finish all my unfinished homework so i'm hoping that I planned out my schedule correctly. As for social life and sleeping, I'll just leave it until the weekend to catch up with my friends' lives and my sleep. Through my successful time managing skills, I managed to get a decent A-B average out of every class. Now onward with next semester, I need more sleep! ~

Maze.

Going through a library is like going through a maze, you never really know your way around and you could get lost. After giving up I find deciding to ask the librarian for help and she directed me. The book that I got was an American
dictionary because my teacher said my spelling was horrible and unreadable. Lol she didn't really say that, I just asked her what I can do to increase my knowledge Of vocabulary.

YOU GET F.

All throughout the semester I have learned more about my strengths and weaknesses and how I can make all my weaknesses into strengths or at least try to, for that matter. This semester my biggest accomplishment has been my writing, not to brag but I was always a good a writer, going over the page limit, being super specific and going into so much detail (there can never be enough!). But throughout the semester my English teacher has helped me prove to myself that I do not suck at writing persuasive essays, I just need to get a certain format/outline before I start to write. She had given me awesome comments on my very long essays on how I improved from the first assignment she had given us! I'm going to miss her positive feedback and her helpful ways, but hopefully I'll refer back to my old essays when I get stuck on writing. I do think I need to improving on my summary and response paper, it's just so hard to start off and get your ideas together without saying they are yours! Enough about my awesome writing skills, one of my failures besides math, which you all know of is the complicated subject nanotechnology. It's so hard to grasp, I understand somethings but if I zone out for like two seconds, I get lost and confused as to what he is explaining and how was it relevant to the last thing he mentioned. Although the applications of nanotechnology are cool and useful, it's just comprehending the subject as a whole that makes me confused, Hopefully I wont fully fail that class, I don't really want to, I'd love to nicely pass the class with some understanding to the materials that are on a nanoscale reign and how they function :)

What?

Along with the stressful exam cramming and studying time I'm having a hard time organizing my thoughts, a lot of teachers want essays with their along with you studying for their hardcore final, It's pretty hard trying to manage time yet again, but then that is to be expected since finals are coming up super fast. Only one more week to finals and everybody is super stressed and tensed you can see how packed the libraries and computer stations are now. I couldn't find anywhere to sit down and study, except the food court and no one wants to study in there. This girl was even crying like next to me. D: I have answered some of the questions but I don't really know how I'm going to make it flow into each other, maybe i'll just act as if it's a story and add in minor details that will eventually lead to the final event, which is the end of the semester. So far my 600 word post is going in circles and a video is like out of the question since my editing skills like suck and I don't want to be on camera. Hopefully what will distinguish my reflection from others is of course, my own experiences, I'm pretty sure everyone went through something else difficult this semester and won't have the same problems as me. Everyone is different, people have different strengths and weaknesses so I think just the post alone should make each and every one of the student's post different from others. In my blog post along with 600 words I will try to use pictures so the readers can actually get a image on what I'm descriptively describing in every little detail. So I'm hoping that my final project actually turns out swell and that my readers enjoy my actual last post. Well probably.