Classes at RC

CLASSES ARE TORTURING ME! These were the very same words I have been unable to stop repeating over and over “and over” again through the three weeks classes have been on! Seriously, when I first knew that I would have four classes for the whole semester, I was very happily surprised. I always was used to taking ten or eleven classes each semester in high school; or to be more accurate, I had to take this number of classes. However, I was not assigned to read some chapters, write a paper, establish a blog and post on it on a weekly basis, nor was I ever accustomed to having quizzes through each class! Maybe classes are not hard, but the different system is what is hard to adapt to? The too much work? Maybe, I always answer.

My communication class, which is the introductory class to my first possible major, is going very well. At the beginning of it, I thought it would be hard to read thirty pages for each quiz in each class, but my true passion for this field of study made it easier for me to adapt. I truly like what I study there, despite how hard it is for me to stay studying two hours reading a chapter in a second language. I liked that communication is a very broad, interdisplinary field of study, because it matches my other interests in psychology, journalism, counseling and public speaking.

My Economics class, which is the introductory class to my second possible major, is going less well than the first. I have thus far experienced in this class taking a take-home quiz, a pop quiz and reading three chapters in just two days! No one can tell how magical this would sound to me if I knew I would do it while in high school. I cannot deny that I did my best to manage to do well through it all, but I still failed that pop quiz and did rather well in the rest. Homework is almost always a paperwork which needs some thinking, math and graphs, so I can handle this very well.

My other two INQ classes are the real torture of this process. Too much work with something I am neither in love with nor good at is apparently a disaster. I really never studied literature in English, but now I have to deal with something of short stories and personal written experiences. In the past three weeks, I have been trying hard to do just fine through my class, and I have failed two quizzes and passed one. So I am just confused what to do. Never the less, the fact that I just dealt with two books out of the four required for this class is not giving me so much hope for what is to come. So I will just keep working and praying not to fail this course! My other INQ class is statistics. I have to admit that I was the only one who chose this course, because its name “Social Justice” appeared so tempting to me, but I did not fully notice that it was a statistics class! I really like and am accustomed to classes where both participation and interaction are so encouraged and present, but this class is of exactly the opposite type of classes where students are on and on instructed with very few chances of participation. The worst foes of students are boredom and sleepiness, which both are a result of little in-class interaction, and this is why I am not really getting along well with this class.