Two Weeks for Tulane

As I write this blog, I realize there are about two weeks left in this semester. It’s now the home stretch–third exams and final assignments come into play, with final exams right on their heels. I have a couple of Bs that need to be brought up to As. Luckily, most of my professors and TAs are lenient enough to let me do that. I always have this to do list that always has studying somewhere on there but somehow it never becomes a priority.

Until finals.

Now I won’t lie to you and say that I’m an unusual student, and that most kids are on top of things. I’d say the overwhelming majority of college students, especially freshman, save their studying to the very last minute. In this case, its the two last weeks of classes. Everyone then starts struggling to yank up those grades in the final few days before exams, because of course, no one wants their entire fate to depend on final exams. Final exams tend to be way too stressful to do that.

Last semester at UT, I was doing the same exact thing–studying like crazy the last few weeks of school. But at UT, I had to approach my professors and TAs to ask for help where I needed it. I had to convince them that I was indeed a hardworking student. Most of them didn’t know me at all . . . .some didn’t even know my name. When I applied to UT last year, I thought I wanted to go to a HUGE school to be a part of that vast network. Now I’m starting to realize the advantages of a smaller school.

As of now, I have a B in chem lab and in chemistry. My chemistry TA I see every week in Bruff, and sometimes we eat together. My chemistry professor is a Senior Fellow for Wall Residential College of which I am the president. Both of these people know me well enough to realize that I am capable of doing whatever it takes to get my A. Pulling up my grades is a lot easier when I have the support of people who already know me and like me, and want me to do well. I feel like at UT, some of the freshman courses I was in were designed to “weed out” science majors who weren’t really suited to be science majors, and in that respect the professors weren’t super compassionate about individual students.

So I’ll be cracking the books for the next two weeks . . . the library is going to be my new home.

Check out our lovely library at http://www.library.tulane.edu/!

But right now I got other stuff to do. Studying . . . I can just do that later, right? =)