And so the semester beginsss....

Helloo All!

    I really can not believe it but the summer has ended and we are now on our third week of school! That is quite surprising because I feel like we just finished orientation!!! Which was absolutely incredible by the way, but I will wait for a whole other post before that! I am quite surprised I guess because so much is happening right now in my life! My junior year of college had begun, I am a Coordinator for our Founder's Society, and I have found some love in my life. I really thought it could be forever before I found myself a girlfriend, but I finally found an amazing girl that likes me too...yeahhh man!

    I am sure that most of us remember or are currently in our junior year of high school and remember how hard it was! It was the hardest school work year for me and I remember being so glad that it was over with. Then at the beginning of this year someone mentioned to me that I should be getting ready for the toughest college year!!! I can not believe it, that could not be true? But it does seem like its true because I have so much homework it is ridiculous. however, I feel like those people are wrong because I am in the two toughest education classes for me which are giving me the bulk of the work, so I think that is why I have so much! But I do not want to scare anyone away from the idea of a lot of work in college, there is going to be and everyone knows it, but let me give you my point of view on all that work...

    First of all, I am a history major and that really consists of reading a lot and writing papers about it. That also means no tests...so in my personal opinion, bring it on, I hate tests! I also must admit that all of the books that I am reading so far have been very good and have taught me a lot. I have no problem reading them and having group discussions in class, they are great! Also, I have no problem writing the papers because none have been more than 10 pages double spaced and that really does not take that much time to do! I am a history major and I have no problem with the work, but reading two books a week so far is getting pretty intense. Now for my education classes....

     I am getting a lot of articles to read, I have some reflection papers to write, and I also have a LOT of lesson planning to do. I hear so many people complain about it and this is what I think about it all...IT IS CAREER DEVELOPMENT!!!! I know that once I am in the classroom I am going to have the knowledge and experience to deal with anything because of it. Also the articles are not in depth and hard, they are all classroom issues or scenarios or something so they are fun to read and they really do teach you a lot! I love my education classes and we also have so much group work and talking in class it is like its not a class at all but a big discussion...I LOVE IT!!! Also the lesson planning is fun and giving us lots of experience, I know they can be time consuming but I want to be a teacher and lesson planning is a part of it so I do not mind!

    I am so excited for junior year to start, I just hope with how busy I am this semester time does not fly by because I love this place and never want to leave SMC!

                                        Joshua