Ready for round two

Hello for the third time, goodbye to a short break.  Two important things I have learned from ODU; optional homework should be renamed mandatory homework, and just because it’s less interesting to you doesn’t mean you don’t have to learn it.  I guess I went into college thinking, “I’m going to find out what I want to do with my life and they’re going to teach me how to do it.”  The two things I found to be wrong in my original thoughts were, that as of now I could not be more unsure of what I’m doing, and I’m going to be doing a lot more teaching then my professors are.  The first semester, as I’ve been told by millions, is supposed to be the hardest and it did not disappoint.  Although I did well in most of my classes, college is going to be a lot more work than high school, and I’m strangely excited about it.  I guess I’ll go over my favorite and least favorite classes then give an exciting peek at what next semester holds.  My favorite class, hands down was Music in history and culture.  I think I enjoyed this class so much because it was actually new information, a subject I have never been taught.  Some of my other classes were just high school classes with the word college attached to the beginning, those were the ones I struggled in most.  It wasn’t because the material was too difficult to understand but because I felt like I was wasting my time learning things I already studied in high school.  I just had to realize that it isn’t algebras fault that I keep having to relearn it year after year, and its not a waste of time to brush up on it now and again, and again.  Sadly I’m still stuck with some normal (inside the box) classes in this upcoming semester, but I’m still going to learn every ounce of whatever there is to learn from them.  I tried to incorporate some odder classes but there are still many general education classes to knock down.   My schedule is still in the creation process so I’ll have to cut to commercial before I can reveal what I’m taking but try not to be too distraught in your state of suspense:p  Happy new year to MRC and everyone else, hope your 2010 has had a wonderful start and continues to get better and better.

-Vince