| What no one will tell you about college. |
[Nov. 24th, 2009|12:42 am] |
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I'm tutoring high school students, prepping them for the SAT.
I think what they need as much as good SAT scores are some good college strategies. Share yours here.
So here it is:
What no one will tell you about college (until you get there).
1 - Want to increase your scores 5% without doing anything?
( Sit in the same seat every day )
2 - Talk to your professor outside of class.
( Disagree with your prof? Good! Take it to her/him at the end of class. )
3 - Bored? Ask a question.
( Every time I found myself zoning out during a class I would raise my hand )
4 - Avoid clock-watching.
( Avoid the clock-watching tick by sitting where you can't see the clock. )
5 - High school is for taking the classes you hate. College is for taking the classes you love.
( Don't be a masochist -- if you can avoid that hated math class by taking a much more interesting astronomy class, do it. )
6 - Know thyself. Work with your habits rather than against them.
( If you suck at mornings, don't take that 8:30am Japanese class. )
7 - Avoid schizophrenia and be efficient: Take related classes at the same time.
( You can use your readings from Indian history as sources for your Indian lit class and vice versa. )
8 - If the class you want is booked, show up anyway, books in hand, and participate vigorously.
( The professor would rather have you as an extra student than the disinterested slackers in the back. )
9 - Give yourself flexibility: Plan, plan, plan.
( When you're not sure of your major, take classes that apply to all three of your most likely majors first. )
10 - The one I learned too late: Build a relationship with professors who are top in their field by taking more than one class with them.
( If they're a bit of a name, their opinion carries weight. ) |
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| Reason number 211 why I love these high school students. |
[Nov. 24th, 2009|12:17 am] |
Reason number 211 why I love my high school tutoring students:
A student wrote his SAT essay. He detailed how, scientifically speaking, the planet doesn't need humans.
<3 |
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| SGA Santa |
[Nov. 19th, 2009|03:52 pm] |
Dragging this SGA Santa story out of me, one sentence at a time.
I whimper at every NaNo post I stumble across. I stalled out early. Too much going on in RL, from temple, to work, to the job search, to WG not sending me my things, to the difficulty in finding time to write, to being several months out of the writing vein from having my life turned completely turned upside down.
This doesn't stop me from hoping that I can write something on this story once I get my mental pen to work.
Working tonight (yay!). I've also received my first paycheck. |
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| WG's going to be laid off. |
[Jun. 3rd, 2009|12:05 pm] |
News just came down the pike.
The guys at WG's shipyard are being laid off. He just went back to work this week after months of being injured.
I leave in three days. I come back to no job and no school and not even unemployment. Now he won't have a job either.
Can we assassinate Bush? Please? It would be so satisfying with what he's done to this country with this god damned war and deregulation. |
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| Office party last night. |
[May. 23rd, 2009|11:21 am] |
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I've decided that I'm never attending a party with less than 500 people. |
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| Wanna go home.... |
[May. 15th, 2009|10:59 am] |
Haven't even left for work yet and I already want to go home.
On the other hand, I have someone with a creative writing assignment for my 12:30 appointment. |
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frustrated