Year II
Nearly 5 weeks ago I began my 2nd year at Cal State Long Beach.
You can say…that things are good. My academic schedule is definitely different from last year. Last year I only had 4 classes per semester. This fall semester for 2011, I have 6 classes: Here’s a brief review of my school after the first 4 weeks.
Monday and Wednesday mornings at 9am I have Group Cardio. I enrolled in this class in the hopes of being in a cardio intensive class that revolved around jogging, running, sprinting, and possibly Insanity-inspired workouts or something boot-camp related that would make you want to throw up after this 50 minute class. Nope. It is what is says it is, “Group Cardio Exercise”. No where in that class title does it imply anything intense, but we use steps and light weights and there’s all sorts of exercises that will still definitely wake you up in the morning. Along with that, there is choreography. It’s not too hard, but I can’t say ShowTime didn’t help with muscle memory. After Group Cardio, I’ve got about an hour break to shower, get my school stuff from my car, eat breakfast then walk over to General Chemistry lecture. Now…these first four weeks of G. Chem were a review of a semester’s worth of content of CHEM 101. Overall, challenging, but do-able. After lecture comes an hour of lab discussion followed by another hour of a lab but with an experiment. The labs are super similar to CHEM101. Yay for me…I’ve got my old 101 lab book x) After lab, I have supplemental instruction for chemistry. It’s an optional class that’s supposed to help you study and understand the content better for g. chem. It’s required to take if you earned a “C” in chem 101. I earned a “B”. But I just wanna study more so I can focus my other studious energy into the other classes. So at the end of Mondays and Wednesdays, I’m done with class for the day at 4:45pm. Phew. Just typing all this makes me feel the tiredness of my Mondays and Wednesdays.
Tuesdays and Thursdays: Up and early at 8am for Physical Anthropology! I don’t know anyone in this class. The professor is awesome though. The content is great, but no doubt that I want the more in-depth side to medical/biological anthropology. At 9:30, I’ve got intro to archaeology. My instructor is a Japanese woman with a strong accent. Strong accent…but great English. Content is somewhat blah. It’s only intro to archaeology…I won’t be Indiana Jones till later on. Then comes Calculus at 11! (= One of the best math professors I’ve had at CSULB and just…in life. He’s very helpful and you can definitely see that he wants everyone to understand the content. Unlike other calc classes, his grading isn’t curved…which I think is good. In that sense, I’m competing with myself and no one else. Calculus I is gonna be awesome this semester. By the time calculus is over it’s 12:15pm and I am super hungry!
Overall, school is tiring…but I can’t say I don’t like it. College…is…awesome.
PTL for the chance to earn a degree in higher education.
