#studyingforuni

Sept 18 2017. First day of college and I feel like I’m already drowning in homework! Hopefully by consistently putting in work I won’t get behind and I’ll retain more of the content. Doing some of the reading I need to do for my art history class, so excited to learn more about the field!

Sept 25 2017. Finally using my school's library! I'm in one of the quiet study areas so my background is just one of those little cubby things. Not aesthetic at all, but functional in limiting some of my distractions which is very much appreciated.

I changed my url! I figured studyingforib wasn’t super accurate anymore as I have finished the IBDP, so here we are. Studyingforuni is more accurate for the next journey in my life and I look forward to all the fun I will have! Along with the url change I have made some changes to the rest of my blog. It isn’t totally finished and if you are having any issues please tell me!

Jan 30 2018. Well I haven’t really been too active on here since the beginning of fall quarter but I am still alive and am now almost halfway through my second quarter of the first year of university. My birthday is this Sunday! I may make a longer update at some point but no promises. I’ve been super on top of my schoolwork this quarter and it’s been so nice. Currently studying for an astronomy midterm this weekend! I haven’t made a mind map for studying purposes before but I felt it worked well in this case. I hope everybody is doing well <3

Today (Sept 24 2017) concludes my first week of college. Wow. Going in I was super excited to start because school gives me a routine to stick to and new things to learn. On the downside I found myself busy with homework every night, just like last year. I also found myself in a similar situation to how I was in 10th grade at a new school; without friends and staying silent throughout classes as nobody speaks to me. Things are different this time around though as not everybody has their classes at the same time, I don't have to show up at the same time everyday, etc. The first couple days were rough. I also recently started a new relationship and we are going to see how that will go with both of us starting college and at different colleges, he's not too far away but it is a 1.5 to 2 hour bus ride which is going to make things tough. Overall there were a lot of new changes that was making me feel out of my depth and unprepared. Luckily all of my friends and I are going through similar experiences with a lot of changes so I can easily message someone and have a conversation about how their college experience is going. Also as everybody's gotten more comfortable in classes there has been more talking and I've made a couple possible friends. Riding the city bus has also been an adventure. I don't have my driver's license quite yet and even once I get it I won't be able to use the car every day because my mom and I will be sharing a car so I've done a lot of bus riding. It's kind of annoying that on M/W/F I have a 40 minute bus ride each way for a 50 minute class, but oh well. So far I've been liking my classes. I don't want to go into much detail on those because otherwise this will get even longer super quickly. I'm still settling into school again and how things are different yet still similar so while I'm not feeling as downhearted as I was a few days ago I still feel a bit overwhelmed and unsure how things will go. Not really sure how to end this, but I told myself I would write an update this weekend about my first week and while it's Sunday night and this isn't that great of an update it has been written and I've covered most things.