COLLEGE LIFE #8

Well my first semester is over in a couple of weeks, and it was a wild ride. This school thing is fun it got it's up and down, there are days that I question myself and other days I enjoyed it. I find school fun and hard working since I got a family, you see some of the professor do not get it that some of us got family and looking for work or have a job but its all good.
I find TCI a wonderful place but like everything it could be better, I enjoy my professors very much. Some of the professor are well liked and some are way out there but that is life we all cannot be strawberry some of us got to be vanilla. As student we need to bring ourselves to school and when I say OURSELVES I mean not just show up, I mean be there for the good bad and the part that we do not like.
School as I remember it was fun and TCI is right up there. The computers,books and everything is top of the line, the professors know what they talk about so BIG UP to them.
My classmates are fun and to listen to there dream and inspiration blow me away. I use the computer lab and to see what my fellow students are working on at times blow me away. The young gentleman that runs the computer lab is GREAT he can answer any question you might have and can help you understand what you learn earlier in class.
I find that everybody want to see the other person succeed, and that is something wonderful. Some of the students have little competition among themselves and thats good because they push each other to do better.
I am looking forward to my second semester but I am also looking for a job and combine both of them. I hope my second semester is as good as my first and better, may the professor even be the same and better.

STUDY AND NOTE TAKING #7

School is like work you got to get there on time study and take notes. School even got deadlines too, school can be fun once you got a system especially when it come to studying.
For me I can study with the radio or tv on or with my son playing his games or making noise. Some people can study only when its quite. Good studying begin with good note taking if you are going to school or college. Do not follow my study habits.
When you decide to study find yourself a nice quite well lit place where you can sit.
Never study lying down on your bed or your bedroom because you will fall asleep. Why a quite place because less distraction for you so a library or the study lab will do.
At times I study aloud, meaning I got to read my notes a loud. Make sure you study on a full stomach, because if you study on an empty stomach that is a distraction.
Set a purpose that will help you study, ask yourself question about the topic you about to study and try and find the answer while studying also take notes.
Take an active role in your study at times we all find yourself not concentrating. We would read the same sentence or chapter over and over, one way to make sure that this don't happen take notes while reading because sometimes in your own hand writing that help you a lot because it is your note.
We are creature of habits so study in the same place and the same time. That means we all have a favorite place that we go and sit to clear our mind or go and thing about things when we are in trouble, used that place because you will not be distracted.
Have a set,start and end time because sometimes we find yourself studying every day nothing get accomplish because we try to cram so much that it cancel out when test time.
Set a time when you going to study if you find that the evening work for you set two hours aside, if morning is good for you set a side two hours and always keep the same time.

TAKE NOTE
Note taking is important in college life, but if you are not in class then you are in trouble. Always be on time for your classes and be prepared.Sitting in front or in the back doesn't matter to if you want to learn its all about the individual.
Always be prepared to take notes once you are in your classroom so have your notebook, pen and a clean sheets of paper ready to go. If you are using your laptop to take notes make sure the battery is charged, turn on and ready to go.
Use a binder, I know it is bulky to carry around but it can be used over and over. Using binder make it easier to organize your notes, if the professor give handouts it is easy to put in your binder. If someone need to borrow your notes it is easier to lend them the sheet instead of the whole note book.
When taking notes make sure that you can read your own hand writing because you will used them to study from. No scribbling allowed, make sure your notes are neat.
Review your notes regularly. Always have a classmate phone number or email address so you can both compare notes or maybe you did not make it to class you got someone who can share the notes with you. Date your notes and highlight the important points this will help you a lot and it make looking for certain notes easier to find.

DATING WHILE IN COLLEGE. GOOD IDEA OR BAD IDEA? #6

Dating in college could be a good or bad it all depend on the individuals. If you take a survey a lot of college students past and present enjoy there college dating experience, some even end up marrying.

I am not saying that everyone is going to be that lucky, because sometimes things do turn out bad. Dating in college play by a different rules, meaning that the college campus might be big or small but you might run into each other if the relationship goes sour.

There are pros and cons in college dating:

PROS

College dating can be fun and also it is a supporting system, if you are away from home for the first time it can be lonely, you got to new make friends to do all kind of things such as going to the movie, studying and even doing your laundry. By have a girlfriend/boyfriend you got someone who got your back.

When it come studying you need help even though you might not like it but if you have some one pushing you that a good thing, because at times we might not want to do it.

We all need companionship and I do not mean just talking, because most of our sexual experience start in college.

Networking might not sound like it belong here but if you think about it we had a girlfriend/boyfriend who help us getting into a job or give us a lead to a job.

If you are lucky marriage is the prize with your college girlfriend/boyfriend.

CONS

If your dating experience turns bad you could end up with a stalker so we got to be careful who we date in college.

Sexual harassment/physical abuse like everything some time our feelings get hurt and in turn we want that person to feel the same pain, so we turn to violence and since we are in college that a dangerous combination.

Couple months ago there was a murder on a college campus, a girlfriend/boyfriend relationship went bad and this is the worse that can happen.

My advice to anyone who want to date in college, try and date someone not in your class because being around each other can wear thin at times. Remember the old saying 'Buyer be wear' keep that in mind when dating because, the same thing that bring a smile on your face or the nice feeling like you walking on cloud 9 can bring a frown or a rain cloud in your life.