Comments on: Classes, graduation, excitement?

By: Jenna

Jenna — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 02:04:56 +0000

Good luck with graduating this year. Yay, for us both graduating. I just started knitting. It’s very good stress relief 😀 Good luck with your school applications. You can do it!

By: Jessica

Jessica — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:55:17 +0000

Oh, wow! It sounds like you have been super-busy and I feel like such a lazy bum. Although, I have been sick for the past couple of days…so I guess I’m busier than I think?! LOL The Human Sexuality class sounds interesting…they always go into such technical details. 😛 Health Psychology sounds like a class that I’d take…but then again, I’m debating getting my doctorate in Sports Psychology. 🙂

By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:32:19 +0000

I think I’m more excited about getting time off than actually graduating (which is 2 and a half years away if I don’t fail). It’s just scarier now to me that I’m going to have to go into the real world rather than going on to more education. Scary.

Have fun getting your grad portrait done, I can imagine that’ll be a really cool thing to have! I always look awful on planned pictures (most of my class pictures are terrible), I hope yours end up looking lovely.

What have you been knitting?? At least your form of procrastination is productive, I usually just waste time on Facebook or watching television. (Oh dear).

Good luck with what you’re doing next. Hopefully you get in where you want.

By: Erin

Erin — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:17:14 +0000

Meh, midterms. It’s already the 4th week of classes for me, so I should probably figure out when mine are… Anyway, I hope yours went well. As for participation grades, I agree that it sucks to feel like you are FORCED to say something in class. While most of my classes in which I had a participation grade, I did not mind too much, there is definitely one that comes to mind in which the other people seemed to be so dumb (not to be pompous… like, really, I didn’t know how they were 3rd/4th years) that I did not wish to associate with such conversation at all.

Oh, grad portraits… I was trying to avoid getting them done, haha. I hope yours turn out awesome! I just sat for mine last week, and I’m pretty sure I look weird in every shot. It’s those weird angles they make you sit and awkward cap-and-gown poses, I swear.

Senior year of university definitely has a different feeling than it did in high school–I agree with you completely there. The highest level classes are no walk in the park! Applying to post-grad things is stressful! I feel so sad for people who have to wait longer to hear back for their admissions decisions than I did… Even my 1-1.5 month wait was kind of excruciating, lol. I am so glad chemistry grad departments here seem to be pretty efficient, so at least I can breathe now, knowing that I have a future. So, BEST OF LUCK with your admissions decisions. I hope you get to go exactly where you want!

By: Caity

Caity — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:34:48 +0000

As a teacher, I have to say I hate the whole participation grade. I really do. If someone wants to sit in my class and learn in their own way, then I say let them. Maybe they don’t want to ask a damn question and by university level they shouldn’t damn well have to do that. It makes me so angry. At the high school level, students should be encouraged and even “forced” to participate on some level so that they understand that asking questions when they don’t know something is vital to their comprehension of a topic but when you get past that and you’re in school by choice? Well then participation should not be part of your grade.

Sorry for the rant.
It just irks me.
Anyway.

So what kinds of things have you been knitting? You should post pictures! Grad portraits sound exciting! My college graduation didn’t seem like as big a deal as my high school graduation either which was quite strange. It’s funny how that goes, isn’t it? I guess there doesn’t have to be such a big hullabaloo now since we’re adults and all and the diploma is the biggest gift of all.