Tuesday, September 17, 2013

From High school to college

   High school is different than college. I've been at Texas Lutheran University for about four weeks  and I am still transitioning from an easy life style with practically no worries to a life style where everyday is packed with things to do and I'm lucky if I get to take a nap during the day. One thing that is different is how much I am sleeping; in high school I could sleep during my classes, home, and during lunch if I was just that sleeping, but now in college I have things to do so sleeping won't do me any good. The only time I have to sleep is at night, and even at that I will stay up doing other things. My sleeping habits have changed since I have entered college and no one is to lame except myself.
    In high school if I forgot my homework at home, my teachers would most likely let me turn it in the next day with no penalty; in college if I forget my homework the day it's due then I would get either half credit at most or a zero. In high school if you were one of the "smart" ones who did their work and did good on all their work, the teachers would let us turn in work whenever we wanted because they knew that we could do it and would turn it in, this is unheard of in college. It doesn't matter if a professor really likes you or not because when a paper is due , then it's due that day. Another change is the amount of homework I get and how complex it is. I have never been good at math, and this has never been as apparent as now. In high school the only year I actually learned something in my math class was my Junior year and now in college it shows that I don't know certain things pertaining to math that I should know. Even though I was bad at math, I still managed to pass the class with a 95, but that didn't mean anything because I still didn't learn how to look at math in a positive manner. Now in college I have to go to math tutoring because I not only want to pass my math class, but I want to have a better attitude when faced with anything pertaining to math. In high school I had no hope or desire to be good at math, but now I want be better at math for the sake of knowing that I can accomplish my goal of understanding math better.

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