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Aurdon
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States2007 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-27 17:13:51
August 27 2010 17:12 GMT
#1
I had meant to update this daily, but nothing much happened the second week. Body still adjusting to the schedule and extra activity, and fatigue is setting in. Luckily took an extra day off work Wednesday to recharge. I think I'm going to start scheduling random days over the next week or so to recharge the batteries.

Classes seem pretty easy. I'm expecting to do well. I seem to remember a good deal about programming so I am really, really glad that I decided to take Java II. Just trying to figure out the Netbeans IDE and all the buttons is what slowed me down the first day. All the logic stuff is pretty second nature, and I breezed though the exercises. Visual Basic and Music Appreciation are equally mundane as courses. Hopefully VB will pickup once more meaningful coding ensues, but there's no hope for Music Appreciation.

Chem I homework is kicked my butt. I think all told 91 questions with about four parts each took me like eight or so hours of work over a few days to complete and I had to just give up on some of the answers. It was mostly just converting certain measurement to different systems of measurements. Nothing we'll ever actually do in class because we're always on the metric system, but it's a chore. Converting lbs to decigrams and kiloliters to gallons is just trivial busy work that he glossed over as unimportant in the lectures. I doubt it will come up in test.

On a side note, there is a cute little redhead in my Chem class and the lab to go with. Seems pretty sharp too watching her help others in the lab. Good scenery always makes a tough class easier to get through. We seem to be two sharp people in the Chem lab, helping others out and stuff, maybe I can parlay that into being study buddies. Maybe. Never had much luck with that ladies.



Servius_Fulvius
Profile Joined August 2009
United States947 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-27 17:43:08
August 27 2010 17:41 GMT
#2
On August 28 2010 02:12 Aurdon wrote:

All the logic stuff is pretty second nature, and I breezed though the exercises.

I think all told 91 questions with about four parts each took me like eight or so hours of work over a few days to complete and I had to just give up on some of the answers.


First few weeks of college are pretty great, huh? And don't worry too much about adjusting to a routine, it happens when you're not paying attention, but DEFINITELY schedule breaks. You're not a robot...

Since you mentioned it above, I want to point out something I don't like about college that most people (including myself) believe for most or all of the experience: the expectation that studying and classwork has a specified time-line.

You can't say "If I study for X hours I'll know the material". In entry-level courses this may be the case since you're already familiar with the concepts, but I think your chem teacher is doing you a favor by giving you an unnecessarily long assignment. Studying the material and finishing the homework should not be given a timely basis. Sometimes it takes half an hour of reviewing the notes and skimming the text, other times you spend 8 hours working through tedious problem-sets. Bottom line - it gets done when it gets done, so try and plan your studying accordingly. The general rule of thumb is three hours of studying a week per credit hour, but this too is a fluid generalization that's dependent on the person. The answers aren't as important as understanding the concepts of why things work, how they work, and how you can interact with the process in your own way. Afterall, homework is just practice and as we know from starcraft, we have to screw it up and get our asses kicked hard before we master our goal!

Sorry for the rant, it's just one of those things I wished people told me...
Aurdon
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States2007 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-27 18:05:25
August 27 2010 18:04 GMT
#3
Totally agree about the time management stuff. For other people reading this and wanting tips, always start your work as early as possible. You never know how long it will take. Even if you are just going to do the first few problems I'd start that same day you get the assignment. It will at least give you some idea how long it is going to take you and you can start planning your study and work schedule better.

I heard so many people in the class say they didn't do the assignment because they waited until night before and just didn't think 91 problems would take so long and they just gave up. Luckily, he said he wasn't going to take the assignment up until next class and people got a reprieve.

Always start assignments as soon as possible if not immediately.
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