5 posts tagged “college”

I got home around 1pm from my first day of classes; I had Marriage & Family and Astronomy today. Needless to say, I think I will enjoy both classes especially my Marriage & Fam despite having the same teacher from last semester for Sociology who is some what...set in her opinions about the world and people in general. Tomorrow I have Probability & Statistics and I have already read through the course information for my two online classes; I'm going to be very busy this semester but I know I can pull it off, cross fingers for A's!!

In other news, I'm going to the dentist at 4pm today for the second time in what a month or so? I don't know what's going on with my teeth as of lately but it seems that all the sealant (the stuff they put on your teeth so you DON'T get cavities) is wearing off, causing my teeth to feel rough to the touch my tongue and get cavities in them. I had to go a few weeks back for a tooth that was bothering me and they fixed it all up, now this one; last night it was hurting so bad the whole left side of my face hurt all the way up to my ear. I get my teeth cleaned for the first time in a while on the 7th of Sept but there was no way I could wait 3 weeks to get this tooth checked out.

Applications for University of Kansas, University of South Carolina and Michigan State University have been filled out completely and await to be reviewed by my mom just to make sure I didn't miss any important info and just to make sure I have things filled out correctly. Even though, I've been in college since I graduated high school in 2004, these damn people still want to know when I took my ACT, the exact date I graduated blah blah and I'm like holy hell...that was almost four years ago, I DON'T REMEMBER EXACT DATES but I found every thing I needed.

Tonight I have to work on my personal statement for my MSU application though. Aside from the personal statement needing to be written and copy & pasted into the text box on the application, it's all filled out. I have a choice between four different options on what to write a short 400 word essay on; I've narrowed it down to two choices which are...

Based on your life experiences, how do you anticipate contributing to the cultural life of Michigan State University?

Describe a specific experience when you learned about a culture different from your own and how it affected or did not affect your worldview.

I can write on both fairly simple and knowing how I write and the subject of both questions I will probably incorporate both into my essay, however the main one I will write on is the second one for sure. Alan (the NEW boyfriend) offered to help me with my application fees because with the three schools I'm applying too it's over $115, he said he'd pay for my fee for MSU since he's actually in Michigan and it's the main reason why I'm using MSU as an option to continue school at :) Anyways, after I write up my essay I'll probably post it here so ya'll can tell me what you think. I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that I'll get into one of the three schools; I really want to go to MSU but we'll see..

The more I look through information concerning the colleges I have picked to transfer too the more things start to set in. I have filled out applications for transfering for three different colleges, and the more I think about it the more real it becomes that I am about to finish my two year degree at the community college and move on with a bigger part of my life. Granted, I am 21 and have yet to live away from home or on my own where my mother or other immediate family was readily available at my disposal.

When I graduated high school, I was accepted into another branch of the U. of South Carolina campus (the Aiken Campus) which is about 4 hours (I think?) from where I live currently; at this time I was 18, just graduated high school and wasn't ready to let go of that comfort of having my family there for my needs...so I didn't go and have been at the community college since then. I screwed around my first year at the community college which technically (in my mind) put me a year behind, but now that I am finishing up I realize and feel that I am ready to move on with life. I'm ready to start life in general: degree, career, marriage, family...all of it. I am just ready to feel independant to the max and not have to worry about anyone else but myself and my own decisions and how they will affect me and only me. I am just ready to become the person that I've always wanted to be and see myself being in the future. I'm so ready and I can't wait.

I got up this morning around 10am, got dressed and head out the door around 12:30pm with some old college textbooks and went to the campus to sell them back. I managed to pull $113 from 4/5 books that I had; my biology & biology manual books, my English lit book, and my photography 2 book. The only book I wasn't able to sell back was my sociology book.

You know what's really frustrating...is that when one goes to buy college textbooks they charge you an arm & a leg for them; mind you, most of us are BROKE to begin with and yet have to shell out $300+ in textbooks alone, now granted we have loans/grants/scholarships that take of this for us, sometimes we aren't so lucky. I think my very first semester of classes I spent over $600 in textbooks alone for FOUR classes; what sucks even more is that when you try to sell those books back in basically brand new condition (because sometimes you don't have to crack the book open for your class) you don't even get half of the amount you paid for them back. I know damn well the books I sold back today were well over $300+ (my biology book ALONE was $100+ when I bought it brand new), but alas some money is better than no money right? :P

On a side note, I'm taking my little cousin with me tomorrow afternoon to see the new Harry Potter movie, I figured I'd be nice and take him with me since I don't really have anyone else that wants to go, should be fun :D

I have a general idea of what I may possibly do about my schedule for this coming semester. I am in need of 5 classes; 1 math, 1 science, 2 humanities/social sciences, 1 elective...and if all goes well this semester and I pass everything, I should be on my way to graduating with my Associate of Arts degree when classes end in December of this year. However, when looking up the classes I had already decided I wanted to take yesterday (since registeration opened then) I ran into some issues. First of all, this is the FIRST semester I've had such difficuilty in finding classes that 1) don't meet at the same time as another class, 2) only have one class meeting scheduled, and 3) don't meet in the evening. So far, all the classes I've wanted to take either meet at the same time another one, only has one class meeting so if I really want to take the class I have to take it at that time even if I may not want too, or they are scheduled as evening classes.

I had planned on taking: Marriage & Family (only has one class meeting), Biology 102 (only because I took 101 last semester, but the class meeting I want starts at the same time as Marriage & Family, unless I take it in the evening), Juvenile Deliquency (only one class meeting and it's in the evening), Alcohol & Drug Abuse (only one class meeting and it starts when Juv. Deliquency does) and Probability & Statistics (unless I get my placement test done & can get into college algebra). So, as you can see I have a lot of classes overlapping each other as far as time goes, and the thing that makes it even more difficult is that when you take a science class you have a 3 hour lab that goes with it that meet once a week on a certain day, so you can't have the lab meeting on Wednesday at 1:30pm-4:30pm if you have a class Mon, Wed, Fri from 1:30pm - Xpm...see what I'm saying?

So I went back and I started searching to see what classes I could replace with what and what times I could take classes without overlapping with another and I think I got it figured out; I had to replace Biology with a different science class which is no big deal, and I replaced Alcohol & Drug Abuse with an online sociology class which is no big deal and this is what I came up with:
   Monday, Wednesday, Friday
   - Marriage & Family; 10:20a - 11:15a
   - Solar System Astronomy; 11:30a - 12:25a
      - Lab: Wed or Fri; 2p - 5:15p  (haven't decided which day I want to take lab on, it's only 1 day a week)
   - Probability & Statistics; 12:40p - 1:35p

   Tuesday, Thursday
   - Juvenile Deliquency; 6p - 7:21p

   Online
   - Social Problems

This is just an idea; I know for sure I am taking Marriage & Family and Social Problems but as for the rest I haven't decided if I am going to keep them at those times or what have you. I may also take out Juvenile Deliquency and replace it with another online class (Intro. to Criminal Law) that way I only have classes on MWF and I can have Tues/Thurs off to work or something. :)