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! ~