<p>Inquiringmind2: thanks for the advice.</p>
<p>Dear Jeyday, </p>
<p>Generally, look at the introduction and conclusion first to an article. Read the sub-headers… the topic sentences… and it will at least give you a somewhat superficial grasp of the material before actually reading/skimming. The rest of the stuff is just… supporting data/examples or background information. </p>
<p>Someone with a similar amount of reading (maybe more!),</p>
<p>Epinephrine…</p>
<p>Yours,</p>
<p>dear mme-lin,</p>
<p>if i follow your advice i think i’ll just skip on the reading all together. hah</p>
<p>i’m back at ucla !!! :)</p>
<p>love,
jeyday</p>
<p>Jeyday - </p>
<p>I’m in that class now. I’ll help you out with readings as soon as I get caught up. I barely added it. I just wasn’t too interested in Mycenaean Greek Art & Archaeology unfortunately . . . </p>
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<p>Dear CC, </p>
<p>I’m really stressed out. Probably obvious when I start going to bed at 8:30-9 and waking up at a ridiculous hours in the morning. It’s only 2nd week (or third if your Ruiz). Under a lot of pressure to get straight A’s this quarter if I’m going to find a postbacc program (some in particular). Also, need to find LORs quickly and get started on my one of (three?) research papers. </p>
<p>Yours,</p>
<p>This thread has been hijacked by mme-lin!</p>
<p>The thread’s title is “thoughts from an incoming UCLA freshman”, not “thoughts of a neurotic 3rd year!”</p>
<p>:rolleyes:</p>
<p>Dear CC,</p>
<p>The rewarding classes must require intensive work. It’s satisfying to write something, even if it’s small, but sometimes even reaching the writing process is tedious (aka cluster reading/thinking. and then discussion afterward). Hopefully I’ll greet the increasing math and science work with enthusiasm, but I’m not sure if I should anticipate Prof. Lin’s pages of derivations with joy or fear (he’s going to torture us???).</p>
<p>,</p>
<p>she was the original freshman diary writer. it’s come full circle now.</p>
<p>chill ;)</p>
<p>mme-lin,
which discussion section are you in? and thanks for the offer !! :)</p>
<p>dear cc,
second week officially began and “college” still hasn’t kicked in yet. i’m getting adjusted to everything and stuff but i haven’t really done any homework. sure, homework problems and short readings here and there, but i feel like i’m slacking off cuz i haven’t dedicated 3-4 straight hours on homework/reading.</p>
<p>i have just been doing last minute homework before the day it’s due and i’ve been getting by… . . . . .</p>
<p>love,
jeyday</p>
<p>^Same way I’ve been doing homework. Short reading late night before early class, reading a whole novel from 8pm-1am night before it’s due, etc. I miss summer, lol.</p>
<p>^sounds like senior year all over again. hahah</p>
<p>Dear CC,
I don’t even feel like I’m in school, let alone college. I should be stressed out, running on very few hours of sleep because I have papers and projects and tests and mundane homework assignments to take care of. But I’m not. I have so much free time that I don’t even know what to do with myself. When does the mental strain kick in?</p>
<p>6th week, or whenever midterms begin</p>
<p>@jeyday - i fb pm’d you. also, 3-4hrs – are you thinking of AP homework style? i dont know but my work ethic has slightly disappeared since HS or its been severely adjusted . . . it’s more like do a LOT of work . . . relax for awhile . . . and then A LOT OF WORK (i.e. around exams / paper due dates ) . . . relax . . . and then die finals week and fall asleep for 10+ hours on the Friday I’m done. Hah. </p>
<p>@Salty - what are you reading? i just ordered Ulysses (annotated!) I’m pretty excited but i won’t be able to read it seriously until, like, thanksgiving break because from this coming week onwards it’s just going to be too hectic to give joyce the time he deserves . 
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<p>@eh3322 - i know what you mean . i dont know how i managed 40 hours of high school ‘lecture’ for four years . . . can’t even stand sitting down for 19 hours per week . . .</p>
<p>for hist2c ruiz has his lectures posted online… so honestly, i don’t see the point of going to that overcrowded lecture hall twice a week…</p>
<p>i think my work ethic is changing too. i used to do so much homework and study consistently during HS (excluding senior year), but i feel like senioritis is carrying over to college. i actually want to get to work,… but then i don’t feel like it,… not unless it’s the night before the day it’s due and i HAVE to, hah… . . .</p>
<p>this is NOT going to last. 
:)</p>
<p>
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<p>Of course not…you’ll go on probation soon enough and eventually be dismissed. :(</p>
<p>you are very encouraging puppet, thank you for having so much hope in me.</p>
<p>OMG I want to read Ulysses. I only got ~130 pages Against the Day before college started, and haven’t thought about trying to read it during year… I realized it could take me 60-100 hours+ to read altogether</p>
<p>work ethic has surprisingly changed in the opposite way for me… 11th/12th grade I would do NOTHING (“too tired to do homework!!! UGH I HATE BUSY WORK”) until 10pm-2am, then rush through it, wake up dead, and sleep through morning classes, repeat</p>
<p>I have a really long reading list… and I’m a bit intimidated by Ulysses to be frank. That and anything Dostoyevsky makes me want to run away and hide… IDK annotated unabridged . . .</p>