Author: Pizza is life

Throughout my past three months, here on campus and taking classes, I have come to find out that there are lots of pleasant surprises. Some pleasant surprises are dorm life, classes, professors, and homework/workload. I have come to find out that dorm life is fun. I enjoy having a roommate even though she gets on my nerves sometimes, we usually work out our issues within the day. The only bad thing about dorm life is the fact that there isn’t a lot of space in the rooms. Having two people living in a small space can become very difficult and overwhelming. I was also surprised about the classes that I am taking. The classes themselves are self-explanatory and the professors explain them the best they can so that I understand and get good grades on the assignments. The class periods also go by fast. I thought that my three-hour lab would feel like forever, but it goes by fast, and it feels like we are done in an hour instead of three hours.

While the dorm life and classes are pleasant surprises, some other pleasant surprises are the professors and homework/workload. I thought that the professors were going to be mean and not explain the homework assignments. They are the exact opposite. All my professors are nice and help walk the students through the homework so that we understand the assignments to get good grades. I have learned that the professors want you to succeed so they are willing to help you and explain the assignments or lessons to you if you don’t quite understand them. Another thing that I thought was a pleasant surprise was the homework load. I thought that I would be doing homework until midnight. However, with good time management, I can be done with homework by eight at the latest.

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After living in the dorm for a few months now I have concluded that there are a lot of pros and cons to living here. Some of the cons to living in the dorms are the size of the dorm, noisy neighbors, and smelly dorm hallways/lounges. I wish that the dorms were bigger especially since I am living with another roommate and the dorms are basically the size of a shoebox. At home, my bedroom was a little bit bigger than the dorm, and I wasn’t sharing it with anyone else. So, it is a change from being in my room to living with someone else. Noisy neighbors who are always slamming their doors and smelly areas in the dorms that smell like cat pee are the biggest cons to living in the dorms. Our neighbors try and be quiet when it is late but sometimes, they are just loud.  The smelly hallways and lounges are bad. It is hard to get that smell out but at least my dorm smells good.

The pros of living in the dorms are I am on my own and have that sense of freedom that I have been looking for ever since high school. I have always wanted to have my freedom from my parents and be able to do my own things. Coming to college has given me just that. Another pro to living in the dorms is having a roommate. Some people would consider having a roommate as a con, but I enjoy having a roommate. They are like your built-in friend, someone who is there for you in the first few weeks when you move up here and the first person you meet on the campus. I was lucky to know my roommate before we moved up here because we were friends in high school. Overall living in the dorms has been better than I thought it was going to be.

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I had many expectations about what college life was going to be like, I would be doing homework all the time, staying up until all hours of the night to study but it is not like that. After being here for a month I have come to find out that there is lots of homework to do but I am not having to stay up all night to get my homework done. Time management skills have come in very handy when working on homework because I can determine which assignment I should do first. I have also learned that if I start studying earlier instead of a few days before the test I won’t have to stay up until the odd hours of the night. I learned that the hard way by staying up studying for my math midterm. Thankfully I passed the test, but I know for next time to start studying earlier.

Another expectation that I had for college was that I wouldn’t have a lot of free time to hang out with friends or just relax in my dorm. It is the complete opposite. When I’m not working on homework or studying, I hang out with my new friends that I met. I also had the expectation that I was going to meet so many new people and become friends with all of them. I have met a lot of new people, but I haven’t become good friends with all of them. I mainly just hang out with the same three people and sometimes a few other friends. My favorite thing to do is hang out with my roommate in our dorm and watch TV together. It is my favorite way to relax at the end of a long day or a long week. Overall things are better than I thought they would be.

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