Science and I don’t mesh well together
For reasons unknown to me, which I KNOW must be a God-orchestrated thing, I am a Bachelor of Science.
I royally suck at sciences.
But, thankfully, I am in my last science class ever! *cue thunderous applause* The bad news? Its chemistry. In high school chemistry, I was at school early every day (around 7 or 730) to go to early morning tutorials in that subject. And I still only scraped a C.
I think the main problem with that class was the teacher always used food as an example of how to explain things. For someone as food-minded as I am, this was not a good technique. Each time we talked about moles (didn’t get them then, still don’t get them now… apparently they’re some type of chemistry-related-measurement-thing) she would begin by saying “Pretend I’m making blueberry muffins… now I’ll put 6 moles of flour–” I never heard what she said past that:
“Mmmm… muffins…. those sound so good right now… I love blueberry muffins too. Probably my favorite kind. . . Wait. Did she just say she puts MOLES in her muffins??? What kind of person puts MOLES in their muffins????!!! Flour, yes. Egg, yes. A little sugar, yes. A small, underground-tunneling rodent, WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS LADY?! Sicko. . . You know, I’ve never seen a mole in the wild. I wonder if they look like the moles in cartoons…”
Around then, I would come back to reality just in time to hear my teacher say, “And that’s how you get your answer. Understand?”
Um. Nope.
The same holds true now. With some slight differences. For one, we have not yet covered moles. But I’m sure they will be quite nostalgic.
My new issue in chemistry class, while I’m sitting there in total confusion, is that the teacher is literally sounding more and more like the teacher from Charlie Brown. “Mwah mah mah nah nah wah wah…”
I wish I were exaggerating.
I have to physically shake myself to clear the Charlie Brown teacher from my head, and force myself to focus all over again. Its a very delicate process involving enormous self-control and caffeine.
This is gonna be a fun class this semester, I can tell.
A few college tips
A couple of you have asked me to write a little about college. Its ALLLLLLL about survival skills, my friends! Never in my life have I better understood the phrase “broke as a college student”. That may also be because this is my first and only time to ever BE a college student…
But I digress.
So, in no particular order, here are some tips for surviving college. Feel free to pass them on to anyone you may know who is about to enter the craziness. These are what have helped me survive.
1. Avoid the campus bookstore at all costs! They charge you sometimes $150 for a single book and when it comes time to sell it back, they will only give you $25-$30 for it. My suggestion is that the new student make as many friends as possible with people of similar majors and organize some sort of annual book swap. This would, of course, assume you also have books to swap with people, which brings me to my next tip.
2. When buying books, buy them online from Amazon or something OR occasionally you will find the book at a Half Price Books store. MUCH cheaper. You will, undoubtedly, have to visit the campus bookstore before all of this because they have the lists of what books you need in which class. Just stay strong, and DON’T buy them there. Unless of course, you want to pay a ridiculous amount.
3. Most dorms you stay in will force you to buy a meal plan alongside paying for your room. I will just tell you, the food most cafeterias serve is NOT worth the price. And it sometimes moves. On its own. However, most cafs have a salad bar or cereal or sandwich option. Those are money, my friends. And even if you’re not hungry, GO ANYWAY! Otherwise you are just wasting your own money. Take some dry cereal or fruit or a drink to go. Store it in your room. Trust me, when the late-night hunger pangs hit you, you’ll be glad for your hoarding tendencies.
4. Wear your jeans! I know in college, people are tempted everyday to just slide out of bed and go to class in sweats and a ponytail. Ponytail, I get. Sweats, try not to. If you spend the extra half-second it takes to pull on a pair of jeans, it could save you from the dreaded Freshman Fifteen. Sweats, with their elastic waistband, don’t exactly let you know when you’ve had one too many desserts or potato chips. Jeans, however, don’t lie. Its against their moral code. Wearing jeans (with their at-times unforgiving waistband) will give you a gentle reminder every now and then to maybe skip on the dessert bar and have some fruit instead. You’ll walk away from freshman year with your same-size waistline, and won’t have to spend the next three years moaning about the weight that won’t come off.
5. Join groups or intermural teams, even if its just for one semester. Its so easy to just sit around your dorm room thinking that because you’re in college, people will come to you. Its not really like that like it is in random movies. Go out and get involved! You’ll make awesome memories and meet some new best friends!
(As a side note, two of the girls I’m moving into the apartment with are people I met while playing powderpuff football… And no, I’m not really that tough.. or athletic.. It was actually quite comical.)
Well, there you have it! My top five tips for surviving college! The whole “study and get good grades” thing is understood. (p.s. going for extra credit in college is MUCH more socially acceptable than it was in middle/high school)
Lastly, blogging during class?
I plead the fifth.
