Frustrations and Joys of College

Although being a college student is a lot of work, it is very rewarding. I will be graduating May 2011 with my BS. I plan on attending graduate school, first to pursue an MS and eventually I would like to continue into Ph.D. work.

So for now, I'm working to get good grades at the expense of having a decent social life. Even if I had time for a social life right now, I don't think I could afford it. Getting ready for graduate school has turned out to be a lot more expensive than I previously anticipated! Nonetheless, I'm still excited about going to a great school.

Hopefully I'm not under any false pretenses, but I think graduate school would be even more fun and rewarding than the undergraduate experience. In grad school, you have more freedom to do research in laboratory (talking about science majors) and I feel like that will be the best part. Since I'm a commuter to the school I currently attend, I often don't know about fun events on campus, and if I do it's usually held at an inconvenient time so I go home by then. Although I despise the idea of living in a dorm, sometimes I resent the fact that I chose to continue living at home.

Which brings me to another exciting facet of the graduate school experience.... Living on my own. Or maybe with a roommate, but the idea is that I won't be at my Dad's house anymore. I've wanted to move out on my own for a while because I feel so childish still living with my Dad. I'm not saying I don't appreciate him allowing me to live at home while I get my BS, but I want to have my own home to take care of. I think I'm a lot more mature than I used to be a few years ago, so it's definitely time to move on!

I generally enjoy school. I understand the theory behind having all these non-major classes to let students have well-rounded knowledge, but classes like literature, English composition (if I don't know the English language by now, it's a lost cause), and bogus seminars take the fun out of it.

My final semester as a SENIOR will be full of Biology classes. I can't wait to start! I'm so excited that I'm finally gonna be done with my undergraduate education. I feel so accomplished and excited to start the next level of my life! :)

Thinking about blogging...

Lately I've been thinking about starting to make video blogs and posting on youtube. I don't really know why I want to make them, but for some reason I feel like I want to post random thoughts that I have.

Anyway, I'm a mentor for a small group of freshmen at my university. I feel that I make myself as available as possible to them. I told them they can call or text until midnight on any given night, I have specific times that I am in the library to meet with them if needed (~5 hours a week as well as appointments), and they're all my friends on FB, have my email, and my entire semester schedule including class and work times.

I often hear complaints about how hard Biology is, which I completely understand. The first semester of general Biology is basically all memorization, but my point is--I am a Biology major and I've told them that I'm available always (except during my classes). I'm just disappointed that people are still failing.

I guess what I want is a miracle to happen so that the freshmen I mentor somehow want to help me help them.
I don't really understand what goes through other people's mind, but I just want to understand why no one comes for help.

Back to the whole blogging thing... I like the idea of blogging... but I can't really help but wonder "Who would even want to read my blog?"