Honestly, like Bailey said, this is a lot easier then I though it would be. It's a lot of reading but reading isn't hard for me so it's not any effort to read a few chapters in all my textbooks every evening. Not to mention all the gaps in my classes throughout the day leaves plenty of time to get all my work done. It's like in high school we went to school for six hours straight and then went home with at least two or three more hours worth of homework. Here I don't ever feel like my schoolwork is a hassle. I hope that keeps up.
So my classes. I guess I'll just go through all of them...
So my sociology class is by far the weirdest and most confusing. It's a three hour course but the class only meets for a lecture once a week with one professor, then we do an hour of online audio lectures and then another hour is spent in a lab class in which we are broken down into little discussion groups. Our textbook was written by our professor and is all online...which is such a hassle! Today I went to the lecture part of it and I'm still trying to figure out what exactly I'm going to get out of this class. The lecture group is huge and the professor likes to go off on tangents about his very liberal views on things. It should be interesting, definitely, but I'm not sure it'll be of any use to me.
My statistics class would have to be my least favorite class. It also happens to be the class I have the most times in a week. That's annoying. It's super easy, the teacher is super boring, and the only reason I'm even bothering going to class is because we're graded on answers we have to turn in on a CPS remote during class. How lame. On the plus side the material is all stuff I learned last year in my prob. stats. class, so it certainly won't be a struggle. And there's no final exam! Also I'm pretty sure every single one of my teacher's drops the lowest test grade at the end of the semester. Yesss!
My university 101 class is such a joke, as well. It's my one class on the MCV campus. I can see that becoming pretty annoying later in the semester since you have to head over nearly an hour prior to the class in order to accommodate the bus running late and travel time. My teacher is super hardcore about us being there, though, and the only thing we're getting graded on is attendance. I'm excited that in November we're going to get to go to the MCV hospital for the first time and shadow the nurses there!! I guess that makes the class worth it....sort've.
Psychology would have to be my favorite class. Last night I was doing the reading in our textbook and it was all about neuroscience I realized how interested I am in that sort of thing. Who knows maybe I'll decide to specialize in neurology as opposed to orthopedics. The professor is awesome! He's really entertaining and he makes the lectures really interesting. That's another one of my lecture classes, with probably about 200 kids. I'm really excited for when we really get into the core material since right now we're just brushing the surface with introductory information.
That leaves my two bio classes. My lab only meets once a week and it's my longest class-2 hours. My professor is a grad student. He's very cute! I'm excited about that class too. Oh, Katie you would appreciate that we'll be dissecting rats like in anatomy. Maybe I'll get Bert's relative. Basically in the lab we do a lab every week and then a quiz about each lab is given in the following class. Seems pretty simple. That's also my smallest class with only about 20 kids. Most of them are other nursing students though, so not much room to meet knew kids...unfortunately.
My general biology class is my biggest class with about 300 kids. The lecture hall is huge. I am also pretty convinced that my professor isn't very smart. During yesterday's class she proceeded to read directly off her powerpoint which was straight from the book. It's going to be hard to muster up the energy to go that class since it's at 7:00 at night and seems to be not worth my time. The only plus side of that class is it's the only class where I feel like I don't need to sit near the other nursing students. John is in that class (Mills, not Cerminara...obviously) So we sit together. It's a nice break.
Funn stuff. In my last post I think I mentioned that I didn't feel like me and my roommate were really going to be friends, but we actually bonded the other day when we went to study together. Basically since Monday me and her have been doing a lot of stuff together so that's nice. Lizz, I though it was funny that you mentioned that all the girls on your floor go to the gym together to bond...that's so true! Except...I'm definitely in on that. We either go get food together or go to the gym together. I'm feeling like it's not going to be that hard to make girlfriends up here but I'm sorely missing having guy friends!!! I'm hoping as the semester continues I'll find more opportunities to actually meet guys. The other day we ran into this guy named Ben who's in pre-nursing which means probably next year or next semester he'll be joining the nursing program. He was very cute and seemed really nice, so who knows, maybe other guys like that will be showing up. I didn't realize until I got here how many guys are actually in nursing. It's unfortunate they're not actually in my group, most of the ones I saw were upperclassmen but it's still nice to see.
That's all for now, I'm off to find dinner.
Love you!!
Oh I meant to mention, the boys here have the BEST jeans ever! I know it seems like such a bizarre thing to notice, but honestly i've never seen so many boys with nice jeans that look good on them. These VCU boys clearly know how to shop. :-P
-Cougzzz
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