I could hardly wake up for my 9am this morning. I have absolutely no idea how you do it (in addition to commuting).
@Vctory - I love early morning classes. I’m on campus by 6:45 everyday anyways, so I figured why not just take early classes and get over and done with them? Right now all my classes start at 11 and end in the afternoon which I don’t really like because 11-3 is an important block of time for meetings, seminars, etc held by my major, my school’s Honors College, etc and I always have to skip them because I’m in class. Plus, I end up going home at peak rush hour and I never get a seat on the train and I like sitting LOL. It sounds crazy but I wish my TuTh started at 8 next semester too but I couldn’t find any necessary classes that met at that time.
In other news, I am the most awkward person in the world. My Honors advisor met with me today and he asked me “Why did you choose [Preamble’s School]?” and I just paused for a moment and said “full scholarship” and then he started laughing but ??? I was being completely serious.
^ I say that ALL the time. Honestly there’s no way I would have come to my school if I didn’t get so much scholarship money.
I also like morning classes, oddly enough. I’m not a morning person, but I like being done early so I have the rest of my day. If I didn’t have class until the afternoon, I’d sleep all morning, and I wouldn’t use the extra time at night to be productive, either. This semester I don’t get done until 4 on MTWF (as opposed to 12 on Th) and I feel like I never have time to study. Last semester I was done by 2 most days and felt so much more productive.
@baileyj57 The point of scholarship money is to attract students (and in my case, it worked) - I don’t see the issue in citing the scholarship as my motivation to go when the whole point of having a full merit based scholarship is to appeal to students who wouldn’t have otherwise considered attending. Maybe he thought I was being too shallow? Who knows.
Ugh, I know what you mean - last semester I finished at noon or earlier everyday and I felt like I had all the time in the world and I was on top of my game. Now I come home (after my hour commute) at like 4:30ish and I’m tired and unmotivated. I’m hoping that’ll change next semester with my early morning classes again.
So a bunch of students in my Calculus class cheated on a retake for the midterm (if they were retaking it, chances are they did poorly the first time and were desperate the second time I suppose) and the professor found out and sent an email to the entire class saying that he knows which students cheated on the retake and that he’d fail them for the semester if they didn’t withdraw immediately. It was really intense. It’s like a soap opera. lol.
That reminds me of my first day of chem lab for some reason. The TA gave us a quiz and used the first person to look away from his paper as an example. He like ran over screaming and tore up the paper and then walked out to the hallway to take a minute to calm down. Definitely soap opera worthy (especially since it was pretty clear the kid didn’t cheat… He just looked up at the wall in front of him…)
And yeah… I see the scholarship money as a valid reason to attend a school (like you said - the schools use it for that exact purpose!) but everyone seems to think I’m shallow. I see it as financial wisdom (and I see turning down a free education for an expensive “elite” school to be somewhat moronic), but to each her own I guess lol.
Sadly, I’ll be stuck with a 3-3:50 class on MWF (only offered one time, and is a prereq for half of my major courses) and a 2:30-5:30 lab on Tuesday (only offered this time as well), so I’m stuck with late-ending classes again.
I mean, my Calc professor is usually very chill. He’s very laid back and he has a tendency to let things go - he always lets people make up missed tests and quizzes without penalty, he always allows retakes and corrections for tests, he always tells us that he wants us to do well. I guess some jackasses decided to take advantage of him and mistake his kindness for ignorance and cheat during a retake and now he’s on the warpath, lol.
I could never cheat in college; it makes me too nervous, and professors are definitely wiser in that retrospect than high school teachers are.
I have to take an online exam for one of my classes next week, and a student asked the professor if we could work with partners. The prof said no, and the student asked how she would know if we worked with someone else or not. The prof said that she would just know, lol.
It’s too risky, and considering my luck, I would get caught.
Stakes are way too high to cheat in college. Never have, never would.
I’m in this really weird position where I’m both a morning person and a night owl… Like, I don’t usually feel tired until 2 AM, but I am perfectly fine waking up at 5 or 6 (though hopefully not at the same time)
I’m registering for half my classes soon, and my earliest class is… not that early. Apparently CS people don’t wake up that early.
Yeah, apparently there were reported incidents of students trying to pay other students to take a midterm, so everyone had to bring their student ID cards. That said, I’ve never witnessed any cheating in person, though I’m sure it exists.
I’ve had to bring my student ID card to every single one of my exams - and for quizzes in a few classes.
Another professor made everyone take off hats or turn them backwards. He also made the TA’s go around and check everyone’s shoes for writing on the bottom.
That’s really intense. I’ve never had professors use any security measures aside from asking people to space themselves apart in large auditoriums.
I had one professor walk out of the room to use the bathroom during a final…
Person in front of me in my Micro lecture is on CC.
In other news, campus wide power outage. Professor still going strong, however.
I have to coax myself out of bed for my 11:30 AM class I-) You guys are nuts! At least I’m awake now…
@Vctory - Haha! I know a lot of my high school classmates went on CC senior year. Nice to know some other people have kept up the habit.
I still can’t get over the fact that we are gonna be sophomores!
@quidditchcat I <3 CS professors. I earliest CS class ever has been at noon, I think CS people in general are not morning people.
@preamble1776 I’ll eat my tacos the way I want to
I had an 8:30/9 am every day this semester and I’m never doing it again. =/
Some people on Rate My Professor are literally infants. You know how many times I’ve read comments along the line of “if you don’t show up to class, you won’t do well.” ??? What sort of asinine nonsense is that. I was under the impression that for most classes, there’s an expectation that you’ll show up at least somewhat regularly…
RMP is always a gamble. I feel as if a lot of students that don’t try and don’t put in the amount of effort required are the ones that are leaving bad reviews. The professor might actually be stellar, but the students that are rating him or her may be less-than-stellar.
After this week, I only have six more days of classes. Hallelujah! This semester seems like it has gone faster than the fall semester. I thought it would go slower because of the endless winter we had. I think the weather finally broke, though. It’s going to be in the 60-70’s for the next two weeks.
Oh, and another note: I feel that having classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays only has made me lazier. I barely ever do work on Monday, Wednesday, or Friday, and I feel like I am just lazier than I was when I had class everyday. I was worried that would happen. Oh, well.
My attendance has always been awful, and I’ve gotten good grades for the past three semesters I’ve been in college.