Fall semester freshman year and Next semester classes #10

This first fall semester has been interesting. There have been some good times, some bad times and some very tired times, but for the most part it has been a rewarding time. For the first half of the semester I spent all week worrying about school and all weekend going crazy, going out to parties until like two or three in the morning and wake up at nine in the morning for class on monday. In high school I never really went to parties and I had heard stories from teachers and students that had graduated, that kids who go to parties in high schools don’t generally go crazy, out of control partying in college but kids who don’t go to a lot of parties find it harder not to get pulled into that crazy party lifestyle. I never thought this story was true but now that I have lived it I know it is true. My classes have be great, and I have had great teachers and great friends/roommates. Living off campus has given my a unique freshman experience due to the fact that most of my  friends are older. Having older roommates is a good thing and a bad thing. The upside to having older roommates is that I have people who have taken the classes I am going to so if I need help with anything in a majority of situations they can help with homework and stuff. While some of the downsides are, because they are all over 21, they spend most of the weekend drinking and since I don’t drink it can get kind of boring. And the second downside is that they don’t always want to be hanging out with their little freshmen roommate, so when they go out they don’t always ask me to tag along, luckily I have three roommate and other friends I can hang out with too.While I still am wanting to transfer schools before the next fall semester I have enjoyed my time here at HSU. And now that I’m on the topic of future semesters I would like to talk about what could possibly be my last semester at HSU. Next semester I made it so I don’t have a class starting before 11 and everyday but thursday I don’t have class until 12 and I only have one class on tuesday that starts at 2 in the afternoon. The classes I will be taking are Oceanography 109, Communications 100, Math 105 (Calculus applying to biology), and Business Administrations 210. I am going to try to crash a few classes as my class load now is only 14 credits and I as hoping to be taking at least 16 credits. I think next semester will be a little easier because I will already know how thing work and what teachers expect although my classes are going to much harder than this next semester. Well I can’t wait to see what new and crazy adventures are waiting next semester.  

Halloween???

What can I say about halloween? It was crazy, probably one of the most fun nights of my college career so far. Halloween really started friday night when an old roommate came in to town. I had never met him before but right from the start we got along great, he is probably one of the funniest people I have ever met. So continuing on  with friday night, about 6 people came over and were hanging out getting drunk, which is really funny for me because I don’t drink so I just watched all these idiots stumbling around. Saturday was better because me and my roommates still had to find costumes, so we drove all over town going in to thrift stores and costume stores looking for the most ridiculous clothes. We were almost able to talk one of our friends into being a cross dresser and wearing women’s clothes that looked as if they could have been window drapes at one time, but saturday’s costume brigade only ended up in us buying fake mustaches so that meant we had to work harder on sunday to get something, anything. On sunday morning we drove to one last place for costumes, target. When we got to target the only costumes they had were a meatball and a vampire, but stuffed in the meatball costume was a batman suit...to be continued next week.       

What should I do about food???

So every month my parents give me $700 to pay for rent, food and all other expenses since rent is $550 a month I usually have $150 for food but this month I had to pay a class fee that ended up costing $143 so I only have seven dollars for food and then a small meal plan through the campus. I really don’t want to have to ask for more money because I’m trying to be independent but I am not sure if I can make it through the month on seven dollars. So for this month my plan is to buy a lot of cheap food like top ramen or in something that will last a while like cereal without milk then only eat that for dinner if I can’t make it to school for dinner but I really don’t have any more ideas on how to live off seven dollars. If anyone has any ideas on other stuff to eat that would be cool but the month is half over so I think I can make it without having to worry too much.    

Do I want to Transfer Schools???

Ever since the third week at my current school I have wanted to transfer. I don’t think I made the right choice in schools, the school I am currently at is very free and open, people are nice and professors are helpful but in that same sense there are a lot of hippies and tree huggers both of which I despise to no end. I feel the school I am at now is in the middle of nowhere, as there is about 200 or more miles to any major city and all the little cities are spread out meaning if you want to go anywhere, except for the small plaza in town, you have to drive. One school I have been looking to transfer to is SUNY Stony Brook, because it is a better school in a more urban area, aside from being only a 60 mile drive to New York City, and the only downside I can think of is it is all the way across the country and out of state student tuition is like five times what I’m paying now. I think I would need to go visit before making my decision but as of now this is the school I plan on attending in the next year. 

Should I Take Notes???

I have this one class in the morning where I’m really behind on notes because the professor reads through their slides really fast and I found that when I was taking notes I wasn’t paying attention to their explanation and was more worried about getting everything down on paper. But today while walking home I realized they put the notes online in power point form, thats where i have been making up my notes, and never realized I could download all the notes and not have to write them in class.  That means I could just get the info they are trying to get across during the class period and ask any questions that arise. The only problem with this idea is that my professor doesn’t post the notes until the end of the week so I would still be behind until the end of the week comes and could then read through the notes on the weekend. I’m not sure if I can continue to be behind and not get their explanations and pass, but writing down their thoughts without the notes might not be helpful either.

Lacrosse???

My question this week is do I really want to play lacrosse? I love the sport and it's great exercise but when it comes to school work I begin to lag. Usually practice makes me tired and getting up in the morning is hard enough already. With this being my first year in college I want to perform well, especially since I'm not exactly sure if the school is the right fit and the distance from home is killing me. Another reason I hesitant about playing is because I'm strongly thinking about transfering schools to somewhere closer to home and a place most suitable for my success after college, and bad grades won't make that an easy task. It's killing me inside not playing and being told by a friend that it's so much fun is not helping me either. I guess the decision is mine to make but no matter what decision I choose, I see myself losing. I'm going tomorrow to check out practice and hopefully if it's not to demanding, I will join.