Studying and having a life

I have found that it is harder than I expected to have a life outside my studyings. I am taking 5 classes, two of them at least 3 to 4 hours each to study. One requires at least one to two hours and the other two require 30 minutes a day. Each of theses classes require that each day to keep up with the material and be at the top of the grades in the class. Each day that is a total of at least a minimum of 12 hours per day. I don't know any student here that will study that much a day. But we have to do what we have to do in order to be good students. With all this study hours per day it's hard to be a sociable student in college, and it even hard to be a sociable athletic student. But we have to learn how to juggle things and how to handle stress at it's worse. I have learned these tips gradually but I admit that I need to work with this more than I have. I have told friends of mine that are younger that school means everything, with out school you won't have a real high paying job and you won't be as successful as other people who actually went to college. One of my friends was mentioning to me how they thought college was going to be so easy just like high school was. And I told them that it was much different from high school, were the teachers actually ask for your work and persist you to turn in work. Where in high school you can actually not read the material they had given you and pass easily, in college you can't do this at all. At first they thought I was just joking around with them but one day I came back home and showed them my notes that I had done outside of class and how we never originally never went over this material in the classroom.

No more softball

Sadly our offseason for softball on the field has ended and we can no longer practice together as a team with our coaches. This a both a negative and a positive, first the positive is that I get to concentrate more on my studies and get more rest and finally I get the opportunities to go home and visit my boyfriend, family, and friends. The negatives of this is that I won't have as much bonding time with my teammates than I originally had and because I can't have my "get-a-way" from my studies or anything in life that would stress me out. I have played softball pretty much all my life, since I was 5 or 6 years old. I have also played other sports but I choose softball because one it was the sport that I enjoyed the most, two I think I was better at this sport than any other sport and lastly because my other siblings played either softball or baseball so I have grown up around it all my life. Each weekend since softball gas ended I have gone home and visited with the ones I hold close, which I enjoy and I also get home cooked meals that I have missed greatly. The dining hall at the college is not bad at all but my parents cooking will always be the best to me. I have missed my dogs the most probably because they are my cuddle buddies while my sleep. Being home doesn't make me home sick like I've heard it does to other students. I have adapted really really well into college and I never really miss anything about home, I think because my hometown was originally small so I have been used to growing up in smalltowns. And I also think that being home has kept me out of trouble while some of my friends are staying behind and going to parties and not studying, which benefits me in the long run.

Chemistry/softball

This week chemistry has really kicked my butt, I can't get a grasp of the material and I have gone to SI and asked for help from other students but still I don't get it. I asked for help from my peer mentor and she agreed to help, I'm still worried cause I need this course and then I found out that I can't drop this course cause I wouldn't have enough hours to be considered a full time student. I am really worried because me and my parents had an agreement that if I contained a 3.75 they would buy me a brand new ford raptor truck, which is my dream truck. I have pretty high grades, most all B's except this one class I have a D and my coach for softball was concerned about this grade and I tried to ensure him but that didn't go well. Softball season starts next semester and if I fail this one class then I don't think I'll be able to play, and that would be horrible, not only for me but also my teammates. I'm praying that I do well in this class. At first I didn't believe this class was going to be hard but I was wrong, this class and Human A&P will be the classes that I need to put most of my work in. I am doing better in Human A&P than I thought I would be doing, on the last test I made a low B which was good for the class I was in because 20 people had failed that test and only 5 people made an A and 10 people made a B like me. Softball for me is a "get-a-way" from everything that stressed me out and sadly out offseason on the field is up and we can't practice as a team anymore, we can only practice by ourselves without the coach. We are still working out early in the mornings, which is exhausting, but it's good for me cause I am awake for my classes through out the day and I would rather work out in the morning rather than later in the day. The morning work outs are nice now, because it is nice and cold in the mornings, and I love the cold weather.

Softball and school

This weekend we had a softball tournament and for the very first time of playing other teams we did really good and our coach was surprised. We will probably have two teams, a varsity and junior varsity and I think I will be starting for first base. I am really excited to see where our team will be for next semester. I think that the new freshman on the team are really good and they will help out our team in the long run but there are still some things that we need to work on to get better as a team if we want to make the playoffs and win the conference. Outside of softball I have made several more friends and it was more difficult this week on the school work. I had homework for almost all my classes and had a least 3 test which really taught me how to organize my study time and how much I needed to study for each topic. On one of my test (Human A&P) I really should have studied more, because I studied and learned all of the bones but none of the "notches" of the bones which was on the test. I am not really freaking out because there was more than two sets of the test and on one of the sets I did really well. On my other test which was in chemistry I was really prepared and felt confident going into. When I got there and looked over the test I realized that it was a little harder than I thought it would be but I still think I did really well. My midterm in frex I am feeling confident because I know what is going on in the class and I have stayed up to task with what is going on. I probably have to annotate more chapters to be on the safe side, so I can feel confident on the in class midterm. On the take home test I have already finished half of it so I don't procrastinate and fall behind and have to do it all on one night. I have started reading all the chapters again to prepare more. I don't want to under-study for the midterm. This up coming week I only have the frex midterm and then the Comp paper that is due which I have already finished, which I hope is good. I have had other people read it and they said it was fine so I think I will be fine in that class.  

So Excited

Well for this coming up week (October 3-8) I am so excited because for softball we have been going really hard on our offseason. We work out every morning from 6-7 am, meaning I have to usually wake up at 5:30 am and then on Thursday's through Sundays we practice during the days, for a very long period of time. On Saturday we usually practice from 9 am to 7 pm and have a long lunch break. Well on this week Coach Wilson has decided to give off the morning practice to give us some nice and relaxing time to sleep in. I am so excited because I get to sleep in and take more time on studying and on my school work. As far as school wise I think I am doing pretty well with juggling my time and knowing how much time to work on things. This coming up week I have a major test in Human A&P and I am super nervous but I am determined to do my best because this class means a lot to me (not saying the other ones don't) I have been studying for at least 1 to 2 hours a day and breaking down every paragraph in the book and analyzing the text just like Frex class has taught me so far. At first I didn't think that this would help for Human A&P because it was a strange text, not your normal english text. But I was wrong, and this helps a lot and I understand the words more. For Chemistry class I have a exam on Friday and I feel pretty confident on this but I know I still have to study like usual. I really like my professor for my class and I know I can always go to him for any questions I may have about the course. I am not a huge fan of math but knowing that I have a good Chemistry teacher makes me feel happy and confident with math. I am still loving college here and I am excited to meet new people, I don't really mind all the hard work you have to do, all the homework that is assigned because I know in the long run this will help me out in the future. I am excited about my future and I am so curious of how my life will plan out, but time will just tell, but time needs to speed up.