College

In my last blog I am going to write about my thoughts and feelings about my first semester of college. Being the first person in my family to go straight to a four year was different because I came into the school not knowing what to expect. The first couple weeks was very easy. I was happy because I was doing very well. Unfortunately that took a 180, more work was handed out. Now it feels like I have so much to do in such little time. College is when everything counts. It can make or break my future. We have one month left and I'm slowly starting to get the hang of everything again. Ive been planning all my school work and writing down exam dates and important date. I plan on continuing this for next semester. I've been in a weird emotional mood and I know that there is a reason for the way life is working out right now but I still have some little regrets. If I knew how college was I would've came into school with a different approach. I've learned so many new things ...

As the semester is coming closer to an end, I have sort of been getting the hang of school now. Recently I've been trying to focus more on school so I can have a distraction because if I don't have a distraction I start feeling sad. These mood swings have been causing me to want to get my act straight and focus more on my education and less about relationship and other things that are unnecessary at the moment. I feel like my happiness and education should come first. Today I have finished four assignments including this one. I like being kept busy. Unfortunately if I work on too much I start getting anxiety because my brain cannot process so much information from so many subjects at the same time anymore. To kill more time and to keep me even more busy I am planning to start going to the gym again and keep it up. I think the gym will help me take things off of my mind and i'll also get healthier which is a bonus. Hopefully i'll stop feeling this way soon because i jus...

With everything that has been happening in my life lately I realized I need new ways to distract myself and keep me busy. I feel like its hard for me to do this because I am mentally and physically drained everyday. When I come to school, I just want to go home and sleep. The people that I do talk to have been telling me that I should join clubs and a sorority next year. I honestly don't have any interests in any of those. I don't have any passion for anything actually. It sucks because there are kids who are passionate about art, music and other stuff. I don't have anything. What I do want is to make some new friends. Ive made a couple but I want to make closer friends at school. Its hard to make new friends when the feeling doesn't seem mutual. If I feel like that other person has no interests in being my friend or just doesn't want to talk to me then I won't talk or make conversation with them. I know thats probably a bad thing and that I should just make con...

In the last couple blogs, I talked about my mixed feelings, regrets, doubts and struggles with college. In this blog I will be talking about how much I changed between these last couple blogs. First, I decided that I should focus more on school and less on people. Recently, I decided to cut off some people who aren't going to help me grow as a person. What I mean by that are the people that hold me back, such as friends who don't really care about their education or their jobs. I'm not going to completely cut them off, i'm still gonna say hi or bye to them when i see them but i'm not going to make the effort to hangout with them. I am going to surround myself with people who are focused on their education so we can help eachother grow as students. Second, I am going to start asking people for help. I'm a shy person so i don't usually talk to anyone in my class unless I have to or I already know them. I am going to try my best to study with friends and do s...

In my last blog, I talked about how recently i've been struggling with all my exams and everything that i’ve been doing for college. This last week has probably been the worse week of my life. That includes school and my personal life. Many things have been going down hill. This past week I had a lot of time being in my feelings and just had time to think about all my decisions that I have made. One thing that I thought about was why didn’t I go to a community college. Many of my friends go to Modesto Junior College and more than half of them that I know aren't stressing about their homework. It just seems easy for them. I know there's a lot of reasons why that might be true. They could just be smarter than me or they got some easy teachers. Thinking about that this past week has made somewhat regret not going to a junior college first. As hard as I am trying right now, nothing seems to really work for me. I know this is my first semester in college and i'm not used t...

In the vlog I will be telling you about the struggles that I am going through in college. The first couple weeks of college seemed to be decent and I was not stressing. Now that we're further into this semester, I noticed that college is getting way harder. Harder than I am used too. I have noticed that it is stressing me out really bad and it usually takes a lot for me to get stressed. I don’t even know why i'm feeling stressed. It is hard to say that it's because of school because I hardly get any homework and the homework that I do receive is easy or  I finish it on time. The the thing that could be stressing me would probably be my grades. Some of my classes, I have good grades. However the others they are questionable. It's hard to pick up those grades because there are no assignments that are given. We only get exams and our grades are based on the exam scores. I’m worried about having bad grades at the end of the summer. I feel like i'm not focused because t...

In this blog, I will be writing about studying. Throughout high school, I would hardly ever study. If i studied for tests, I would notice that my grades would be worse than the times that i didn’t study. So that’s why I would hardly every study. Now, in college it's so much different. I study so much but somehow it seems to not work. I’m a morning person so I tend to study in the morning. I'm more productive in the morning and as the day goes on get lazier and lazier. Recently, i’ve noticed that my psychology grade is dropping. I don’t know what to do. I take notes in the class and study. I for that class more than any other class. Now it’s stressing me out because I don’t know how to pick up my grade. I also study with my friends so i don't know what else to do. Psychology seems to be the only class that i am having a really hard time. In my entire life I don't think i have struggled this hard before. My professor puts up study guides and I spend hours and hours doin...

In this blog, I will be talking about why I chose pre-nursing and all the benefits that I will get from it. The reason why I chose pre-nursing was because it is a good career choice. Also because my parents and family really wanted me to. Im one of those people who aren't really passionate about anything whatsoever. So picking a major was really difficult. As time passed by, I knew i had to chose a major. it was between being a pharmacist and a nurse. I chose nursing because I want to help people. Not only help people but help create a stable future. I also wanted to make my family proud because I am the only one who is going straight to a four year in my family. Some benefits are there's always job openings. People get hurt everyday, there's not gonna be a day where nurses aren't gonna be needed anymore. This will make it easier to find a job once I finish college. For example, my uncle went to a mechanic school but couldn't find a job once he graduated. Another ...

Over this past weekend, I attended Stanfest. Stan fest is a concert that is held on campus. The performers were Mims, Ying Yang twins and T-pain. The tickets were very affordable. For students, tickets were $5 and for non-students it was $25. If you purchased a ticket on the day of, it was $35. Thank you Stan for affordable tickets! I attended the concert with three of my friends. We arrived over 2 hours early. With good company those 2 hours flew by fast. When they finally let us in, my friends and I walked and got front row we were so excited. As the crowd grew, I was getting overwhelmed. There were some people who kept pushing to get closer. Besides the pushing, the concert went very smooth. There was no fights, or arguments everyone left the drama at home. Everyone in the crowd was singing and getting along. This shows a lot about how the atmosphere is at Stan. It ended at around 10 which was a good time. Also, the fact that Stan holds a concert every year for student and non-stude...

The biggest problem I have with college is commuting. During my senior year of high school, I would wake up at 8:30 to get ready for school. I didn’t have a first period. Now, during college I have to wake up at 6:30 in the morning. Ever since I was younger I would always be grumpy if I didn't get a good amount of sleep. Also, another problem that I have with commuting is not knowing whether or not there’s gonna be traffic. On tuesday, I have a 6pm class. That means traffic everywhere. I have to leave over an hour early when it usually only takes me 15 minutes to get into town. Most of the traffic is because people slow down for no reason. There's no accident. Another thing is I don’t like driving back and forth between my breaks so I chose to stay on campus all day so I don't waste gas. That means on mondays and wednesdays i'm on campus for about 12 hours. Although being on campus for so many hours a day get tiring it also has its advantages. The last problem I have ...

There are many reasons why I chose to come to California State University of Stanislaus. First off I applied to many other campuses such as Chico, San Francisco and Sonoma. One of the main reasons why I chose to come to stan was because of my financial issues. It was the cheapest and closest school for me to attend. My parents didn't care what school I went to but I chose to come to this school. I didn't want to depend on my parents to pay for other resources that I needed for school that financial aid couldn't cover if I were to get a dorm. Also I stayed closer to home so I could take care of my family whenever they needed me to. The next reason was because I was not ready to leave my house and be on my own. I think the reason why I was so scared of being on my own was because I’ve never been on my own or separate from my family. Being at Stan has allowed me to somewhat be on my own. The campus is not too far but not too close to my house. I live 20 minutes away. On Monday...

Once I started college, I noticed that everything around me changed. My schedule, study habits and life. Although, i’ve only been in college for 3 weeks I have noticed that I am becoming more of an independent person. The transition from high school to college has drastically changed the person that I am today then I once was. Now, I feel as if I have to be more responsible. Throughout high school there would always be teachers to remind you that there was homework,assignments due, and quizzes/tests. Teachers would always make sure the students had the resources that they needed to complete their assignments. Now, it is the student's responsibility to sign into blackboard and find out whether or not there were assignments or anything that is due. For most professors, they will not accept late work. So if you forget to check if you have assignments then you will not be given credit for your late work. Also, the transition from being on high school grounds to a college campus has ope...