A Wrap Up Of Freshmen Semester

I know, I have roughly 2 weeks left before  the end of my very first college semester. I don’t expect my feelings on my first semester of college are going to change  though, so I thought I would post a few thoughts on it.

First and foremost, I made a smart move. I was excited about the prospect of becoming a teacher. And that excitement has only grown the more I’ve been in school, and the more I’ve learned about the education field. (In case you’re wondering, I’m a future Early Childhood Special Education teacher)

Making friends in college is a lot like making friends in  high school. It requires knowing someone who knows someone, and a great personality. Luckily, CCBC (Community College of Balitmore County) has a great program called First Year Experience. I’ve been paired off with a mentor who I’ll refer to here as A. And I met another young man in the same program. I’ll call him J. These two have  made my first semester smooth, and exciting.

I joined a club or two, but it looks like I’m going to be jumping down to just one. It’s called A. A.V. That stands for Activism, Advocacy, and Volunteering. Now, I probably got the president mad at me this time around, because I got sick. (More about that later).

I found out that I’m not as stupid as I assumed in Math. I’m actually carrying a high B in math class right now, and I hope that will carry over into my final grade, and maybe translate to an A. No hopes being raised, however. I still like the instructor a lot. She’s a nice lady.

Speaking of instructors. It’s important, I learned, that you build up some sort of rapport with your teachers in college. They can end up helping you out in a pinch. With my health being as it’s been for the last few weeks, it’s been great to know that I’ve got teachers that do understand, despite getting frustrated by my continued absences.

Which now brings me to lows of the semester. I spent a lot of time out. It wasn’t by choice. My grandmother died in March, and after that, everything just sort of collided out of control for me.  My immune health went down, and my confidence with it. I felt like it was the return of my senior year all over again, but I still pushed on.

College is going to be an experience I won’t soon forget. I just hope I can find some way around my health issues to finish! I want this more than I’ve ever wanted anything in my life.