A Little More Than A Week

Yep, it's been a little over a week since my last post but I think that I have a good excuse... finals. So I was putting more focus into school trying to make sure that I would at least pass my classes because this semester was very challenging for me. Especially my history class and it doesn't help that I never liked the subject either. I was also strugling with my governement class too. I also had philosophy which wasn't too bad, I sucked at all of the tests but aced all of the writing assignments. My last class is astronomy which was really a piece of cake to begin with.

So the day to take finals came and I knew that I did pretty bad on my history final after I took it because it just didn't feel right. Then, I had to take my government final right after that. Even though my government final was comprehensive, it still seemed like a much easier test, except for the "fill in the blank" questions, than our other tests.

The next day I only had one final, astronomy. Now I didn't study for this test at all and I can say that there were maybe only 2 or 3 questions that I didn't get mostly because of how the questions is worded (my professor is Chinese and makes a few grammatical mistakes). After that test I was done until my philosophy test which was the next day. Since my philosophy test is online, you would expect it to be pretty easy and thats exactly what I thought, but I was wrong. During the test I felt like I was answering correctly but when I finished and got my grade, I did much worse, a 64%. At least that wasn't the only thing I had to do; I also had to turn in my final writing assignment which I was hoping would come out much better than my test score.

After a few days all of my grades were in. The final verdict was 1 A, 2 B's and 1 D with a GPA of 2.846 for the semester. I am sure you can guess which grades go to which classes, but I was very surprised to see a second B. The other B goes to my government class.... crazy?! Other than that I am happy with my grades because my only goal this semester was to pass all of my classes and that is exactly what I did. Now time for summer.

I was really wanting to move back to California this summer but after having a look at what I have left here for school, I decided that I will stay until next January or February. All that I have left is a total of 5 classes. So I will be taking 2 classes during the first summer semester which starts in June and maybe 1 or 2 more the second half of summer. That would leave me with 1 or 2 (depending on how many I take during the summer) classes left to take in the fall before I can finally earn my associates. I figured, with the help of some other people's opinions, that it is better that I stay and get my degree because it will also give me time to save up some money for the move back to California.

Well, I am tired of typing for now... I should be back later with some more.