Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Ugh...school...still

So, I am STILL in school...and STILL at the Community college (yes, this is going on my 4th year at the 2 year school.) This semester, I am taking 3 classes. Weights...the teacher is hilarious, but can make the best athlete cry with just 3 lb dumbells. I end that class with running stairs. THEN, I have 10 minutes (if we end on time) to run almost a mile and up 4 flights of stairs for my Biology class. This class is killer. I love the subject and the textbook isn't half bad. But, the teacher lectures for the full 80 minutes and he's all over the place. Have you ever had a class where you leave thinking "huh?" Luckily, he hands out all the objectives at the beginning of the semester and SUPPOSEDLY uses those to make his exams. We'll see, next week is the first exam. Then, I have a 4 hour break before my next class. This initially was killer, but now, I have it down. The first hour or so is for lunch...to go pick it up if I need to, and then I ALWAYS get back to campus with at least 2.5 hours before my next class (otherwise I would spend the entire break looking for a parking spot.) I want to know who the genius was that decided to redo the parking lots right outside of all of my classes, blocking off HUNDREDS of spots, but not decreasing the numbers of students. Okay, so in the last 2 or so hours of break, I have just enough time to read the chapter for my last class of the day. Sociology. I LOVE THIS CLASS! I don't know if it's because I'm pretty much guaranteed an A or just the subject matter in general. The teacher is young (I mean can't have been teaching for very long.) Every Tuesday, you start off class with a 15 question quiz over the chapter you should have read. THEN, she collects the scan tron and lets you keep the quiz. The questions on the exams are directly from those quizzes. Then, the essay questions are given to you at least a week before the exam. SWEET! And, I actually love reading the textbook. This is amazing!!! I also got extra credit in the first class for reading a question on the quiz out loud. A CLASS WHERE YOU GET EXTRA CREDIT FOR TALKING?!?!?!?!?!?! That's my kind of class.

2 comments:

Shannon said...

I hated biology in college! Good luck with all your classes.

cyclingchef said...

Check out www.crossfit.com for the most killer workouts - very popular among the fire fighters.
Your Auntie is a certified trainer in CF and it rocks.
EFY, a mission, back at home with your Mom.....

Wow.
Auntie Brenda