Tough as Nails: Experiences at University
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"Tough as nails", that was my idea about Uni back when I was a 17 year old freshman, starting a degree in civil construction.
(200 words. 3 comments and comment on Teacher's blog)
"Tough as nails", that was my idea about Uni back when I was a 17 year old freshman, starting a degree in civil construction.
I had heard my father, many times, telling memories from his college years and the most common thought was that he has to study hard as hell. He even claimed one class could be as intense as one month of regular high school lessons. Imagine that!
So there I was, facing the unknown, suffering a bit from the pledges but still up to the challenge. My first class was Calculus I -engineers' stuff. And ... Voila! Only the first class and the Professor had already made a full revision of what we were supposed to have learnt at school.
Of course I freaked out! I had to double study. It was really hard at first but after some time I made very good friends and study groups. I started to remember and make up for the things I did not know.
At the end of the first year, I was an average student, my final grade was just a 5. And worse than that, I had failed the Calculus II course...
Even though I felt I had somewhat failed (totally) , my first experience at university was a great one, I made many friends that I still keep, I learnt tons of new things and more over, I put myself to the test, and I ended up quitting engineering and going into humanities, but then I was more mature, I had already made my way through "learning how to learn", and in the end I could become a great student!...but only when the studies meet my interests, LOL!
Great anecdote !, it is very tough indeed the first approach to University, I felt the same when I was studying my first career, but sooner or later we realized about the things that we really enjoy doing and at the end nothing is more important that being happy with your decisions.
ReplyDeleteAlways you surpice me, it's soo diferente from what you do now! i think it's wonderful find the carrer of your life, it's so important make and live of your own passion.
ReplyDeleteWow horrible university experience that good left them and found your way.
ReplyDeletewooah! I had a similar experience when I started studying journalism. I came from a scientific education and did not have much knowledge about humanities, however, I was able to organize myself and have good grades haha
ReplyDeleteIt seems to be a very usual situation. It's hard to find your path in life
DeleteIt is very difficult to realize what you want to do once yo graduate from school, some make the right choice and some dont, its all about where your passion is.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a freshman college student i used to tell my friends (as a joke) that I took Calculus as a voluntary subject. They believed me a lot of months haha and they thought I was some kind of genius haha
ReplyDeleteThat was a real flip in your life! Anyway that was a beautiful opportunity to know different kinds of friends and explore your own limits, congrats!
ReplyDeleteWhat is the obsession in some career for overload their students? That´s not a healthy way to learn.
ReplyDeleteI have a lot of mates that studied something too different. For example laws or commercial engineering and now, they're studying cinema!
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ReplyDeleteI have friends who study engineering and also said that they were reviewing everything math we had studied at high school in just a month
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that you had studied engineering before. I'm very happy that now you work in an area according to your vocation
Is incredible the way parents and teachers describe university to us when we are at school. It´s like we are going to hell or something haha
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