premed class difficulty and social life

nixchaos
Mon, 13 Dec 2004 04:10:55 +0000

Test retakes at JHU would be amazing. I remember Javis last year when we were all applying ED and such, we all thought Hopkins would be great fun and for some of us it has been. Honestly the social aspects here are pretty great. Of course there will be the people that don’t leave their rooms on the weekend… and on the other end of the spectrum are the “Hopkins 500” - the same 500 people that attend all the parties/social events. We have club nights and smores in the quad and some of the frat parties really aren’t that bad… well actually they can be really good. On the other hand you have the actual work. I came in a bio major with AP credits so I ended up taking physics this semester because its a requirement. Ouch. Physics is pretty painful for most people so I’m happy its covered grades. I got a 57 on my first physics lab. But in the end it really is all a matter of adjustment. I was the kid that never studied but still got As in highschool… now if you don’t study you fall far behind and… yea… studying helps. And there is a lot of studying, which I did not do enough of this semester. I don’t think I’m going to fail any classes this semester under the satisfactory/unsatisfactory thing but I am DEFINITELY not getting anything close to As. Covered grades definitely help because you learn a lot about how much work you really need to put in… and then second semester you can adjust accordingly. Honestly if I got to do first semester all over again I think I would slack off just as much though. Its your one chance to have relatively stress free fun exploring campus activities and its kinda good to get your face out of your calc book and have a little fun in college.