Am I done?
I’ve been thinking on this lately given how much school has sucked from my life. However, much of that was just adjusting to school life.
Having taken 14 units at my local college, I was surprised to notice how not being in school for a year and a half wrecked my studying habits. If not for my kind-hearted teacher in Sociology, who spent a whole class reminding everyone what studying really looks like, my GPA may have dropped further than it did.
Some of this is really related to the way schools in the High Desert (and yours too?) teach. It’s much more really a memorize-forget system. Because classes are so large (40+) in high school, much of the learning process is done this way out of a necessity to survive. So when this stretches to college, the results are disastrous.
Just walking around my local college, I found that many of the students with High School Diplomas were in Math 10, equivalent to 8th grade math! All of the other classes had students filled with this kind of horrendous situation.
I must admit, half of my problem last semester came mostly from being bored half to death when the teachers in classes like Biology were spending most of their time talking about like fifth grade material.
So what I concluded was that last semester was mostly getting dumbed down enough to listen to those awful-long lectures and not so much because time wasn’t mine. Perhaps you feel the same?
Either way, expect me to make an effort to write more on a regular basis in the next couple weeks…
