Finals

Finals are coming so I chose to write a blog on finals this week. I know this week and upcoming week is so stressful because of the finals. And also we have to register for classes and decide what to take. It really make me upset when I do not get a class I need and I have to go back to see what to take now? Okay so going back to finals I know how hard it is to learn everything from the starting of the semester till the end. I like how some teachers give study guide and I think it is very helpful. I think for some students you might want to make a study groups for final but I don't like to study in study groups. I like to study alone and don't feel comfortable to study with especially friends. I can only have fun with friends but not study because every time we decide to study together we end up in doing fun things so I never finished my work on time with my friends. But everyone has different experience so this is not same for everyone. The other thing is that we struggle a lot in managing time so as our finals are about to start, we have to make sure that we have a plan of how to study because it is very important to have a plan before you start anything. So best of luck for your final and I hope all of us will do fine!

Stress Of College Life

We all know how stressful college life is. Especially for freshmen it is very hard to manage everything. High school was pretty easy, basically nothing to do. But college want us to do everything, you can’t be lazy in college. Every student wants to give their best and pass with flying colors but this could be very hard to achieve for those who procrastinate a lot. There are certain tips to do well in college, first is to learn how to manage your time. Time management is very important skill and by making a time schedule and getting stick to that can prove to be positive point to finish your work on time, second is to learn to say no which means if your friends ask you to go out and hangout with them and you don't have time for that then it is very important to learn to say "No" to them. Third is to try to not wait until the last minute to do your assignment. So these are some of the tips to reduce your stress and to make your college life easy. I want to finish all of my requirements in 4 years and transfer to medical school. We should make sure that we are giving our best and putting our efforts as much as we can. College is challenging but if we’ll try than we can make it easy. Some people start college but do not complete it but I believe that we should not left it in between.

Selecting Courses

To select the courses could be very challenging. Especially when you are freshmen and you don't know how everything works than it gets quite hard to choose what you need. And by the time you plan and select the courses you want to take than the classes get filled so quickly that you have to rethink as what you should take now. Everyone wants to get done and graduate in 4 years. And to make this happen it's very important to complete all the requirements on time. And sometimes it get so hard to get enrolled in class you need. Even though we have advisors who help us to choose classes but still it is not that easy. For freshmens it is more harder because the priority is given to juniors and seniors so that they can take the classes they need and there will be no problem in their graduation. Last semester I planned to take chemistry but I couldn't get it because that class was filled by the time I started to enroll on my registration pass. So now I am taking that class in summer. And for me it is harder because the summer classes are very expensive as I didn't get financial aid. So choosing the class and to get enrolled in that class could be very hard. And also we have to make sure that we are taking the courses that our major require us to do so that to get finished with all the requirements on time.

Time Management

When we think of time management, the first thing which came to our mind is "Very Hard". I know sometimes it gets quite hard to manage your time especially when you had lots of things to do. Time management can prove to be quite challenging process for those who struggle hard and procrastinate a lot. I know for me when I had to do many assignments together because I wait until a last minute to get it done than it gets so hard to complete it on time. But if we will learn how to manage our time wisely, than it will get quite easy to get everything done faster. I believe a person who know how to manage it's time and make a plan of things as when to do what then it gets easy for that person to devote its time to each thing. Some of the tips that I think we should follow to help manage your time so that you can devote specific amount of time to each activity that you want to work on. The first thing which I think we should do is make a plan and try your best to stick to that plan. And the other thing which we need is learn to say no. This is one of the mistake which almost all of us make. Turn off your cell phone and when someone asks you to do something which you do not have time to do, especially when you friends  ask you to go and hangout with them learn to say no to them. And I would say may be try to make a time dairy so that you won't forget anything that you have planned and try to be honest with that schedule which you will make so that you don't mess-up the whole plan that you made for a week.

Pros and cons of study group

In this blog I will talk about the pros and cons of study group. Many students prefer to study in study groups because they think that if they won't understand anything then they can at least ask their group students and can solve that problem. There are many pros and cons of study group. The positive side is that we get help by studding in groups as we can ask each other if we don't understand anything but some people like to study alone and don't feel comfortable in study groups so I think it totally depends on the person whether he find easy to study in study groups or study alone. There is one more con of study group is that when you and your friends get together then there are more chances that instead of working and studying together your mind start to divert and you start doing other fun things with your friends. I believe that when you meet your friends and plan to study together for exam than it gets harder to prepare for exam. So everything that has a positive side than it has downside also. Study groups can prove successful to some students while for others it may not prove that good. So we have to decide whether it is good for us to study in groups or not. Because  if it doesn’t help you to get good grades or study and prepare properly than I don’t think you should follow this technique to study.

Summer School

I think Summer School is a good for students who want to complete their requirements on time and sometimes we couldn't get some classes in fall or spring that we want because it get filled so quickly than we can take it in summer. There is one more good thing about summer school, that the class just take one and a half month and we are done. Students like to take hard classes in summer because It won’t take too much time. In fresh convocation on raffle prize I won free 3 units class in summer, I felt so happy that I can't even tell you because you know how expensive summer classes are, especially for those students who don't get financial aid just like me. I didn't get financial aid because I don't have a permanent residence card so my dad pays my tuition from his pocket. I want to take chemistry in summer and it is a 5 unit class. After registrating for this class when I checked my balance due for summer, it was $1600. Because I can take free 3 unit class than I will have to pay for only 2 extra units. My brother is senior in high school and he will graduate this year and he got admission in CSU Stanislaus. And from this year we'll have to manage to pay his tuition also because he didn't get financial aid for the same reason. But I am happy that we'll both study at same university. He is going to take business major in Stan State.

Registering for classes

Now is the good time to think about which classes we should register for next term. I wasn't sure that which subjects should I take next semester but today I met with my adviser and get my advising done. He advised me and gave me suggestions as which class should I take to get done in 4 years with all the requirements finished. This semester I am taking 18 units and the classes which I feel boring are the anthropology and sociology. But anyway I had to take this class to meet general education requirement so I took it. But for fall semester I am planning to take more of major classes so that to make a balance of both of them. There is one more problem that classes get filled so fast so sometimes it gets hard to get in the class we need. I planned to take chemistry this semester but I couldn’t get it because it filled so fast. So now I am planning to take this class in summer. I have already decided that which class I should take in fall semester. And I just hope that I will get in the class I need and it won’t get filled quickly. I am glad that I have decided my major and completing the requirements according to that. I seriously want to get everything done in 4 years and don’t want to stay here for an extra year. I just hope everything will go smoothly as I have planned.