How to deal with Exams

Seth Emsheimer
9/25/2017

 How to deal with Exams 

For instance, last week I had my first two exams.  My Group communication exam was this Thursday and my calculus exam was on Friday.  I was extremely nervous for the both of them.  For my group communication exam we had to choose one book of the three and she let us choose.  Of course for myself, I hate to read because sometimes I feel so bored out of my head that sometimes when I read my mind wonders off and is thinking of something else and I have no clue of what I read.  However, I choose The Glass Castle which was an amazing novel and I felt that it was easy for me to not get off track of what was happening and I think it might now be my favorite novel.  For the exam, we had to relate characters to some of the words from our textbook.  During the exam, I felt that time went by so quickly that I had to rush in order to finish the rest of the questions.  After the exam I wished I had paid more attention to how much time I had so that I could have gotten a better score.  Now for my calculus exam I knew I had to pay attention to the time and use every minute wisely.  Before the exam I studied for an hour and then I headed straight to my calculus class.  I would definitely say studying before the calculus exam was a smart idea to help refresh me on the the two chapters.  During the exam I looked at how my many problems I had and saw how much time I had to finish the test.  It helped me see how much time I should take on each question. There was ten questions but there were multiple questions in each question.  I think I missed two questions but that doesn't mean I will have an 80 percent on the test since each question can be worth more or less.  To be honest though, I wouldn't have gotten as many questions correct without my math teacher postponing the homework to Mondy.  Luckily my math teacher Brian Jue was nice enough to let us turn in our homework on Monday instead of the usual due date off every Friday.  If I had to do the homework in that class this week, I would of have gotten a zero on the the exam.  I haven't gotten my score for my calculus exam yet so I don't know how well or poorly I did.      

What to do between breaks

What to do between breaks

This semester I have 12 units and some of my days during the week, I have a two to three hour break. Mondays are when I'm the busiest and I have two 2 hour breaks.  I would recommend doing homework or studying for an exam but sometimes everyone needs a break after class. After my english class and the workshop has ended, my two hour break begins.  Usually I don't eat breakfast before my english class , so I go and eat some brunch in the game room and relaxed.  One week on a Monday, I had no homework to work on so I called my friend to hang out and we watched Netflix on the tv in the game room for an hour and a half.  For those who don't know where it's located at, its between the warriors grill and the lounge.  So if you want to watch tv in the game room, it's only a dollar to rent the tv and the hdmi cable to hook up to your laptop and you can pretty much watch tv as long as you want.  However if all the tv's are taken and you have had the tv the longest, then you will have to return the hdmi cable and wait later on in the day until there is another open tv for use.  For my other two free hours on Monday's, I eat lunch and work on my calculus homework.  Throughout the whole week I'm usually working on homework during my break or I'm relaxing in the game room.  Last week I have seen people bring their hammocks to school to either take nap or read a book, which I thought was a pretty smart idea.  

Why picking a major is scary

Seth Emsheimer
9/11/2017

Why picking a major is scary

It seems that by the time we as high school graduates go to college, we should already know what are major is going to be or that maybe we pick a major and we are scared that it will later be a horrible decision and will be a waste of our time.  For me, I already know what I want to major in and it is mathematics.  I would like to be a high school math teacher.  However, I'm not the best at math but I'm not the worst at it.  The scariest thing for me is will I be able to pass my calculus class and if I don't, should I keep on pursuing to be a math teacher.  Last year I was in calculus 1 in my senior year of high school,  I didn't do that well but I'm hoping that since college is not that long as high school, I will have more time to focus on that one class. At freshman orientation, our group of math / engineer majors were told by the math professors to take all these math classes and I felt that this list of classes was way more than I had thought or maybe to handle.  I try to not let fear hold me back because it is not how smart you are in order to pass a class and learn from but it is about how persistent you are.  For my other classmates who don't have a major, I don't think it's a bad thing but that they are trying to find a path that will suit them in life.

The hassle about parking/ cost

Seth Emsheimer 

9/06/2017

The hassle about parking/ cost

Well, for myself I have an advantage compared to many college students.  Luckily, my friend lives two or three blocks away from Stanislaus and that she allows me to park at her house for free.  That will save me $1,456 plus $546 if I parked there during the summer.  From what I have seen walking to the campus, cars are parked everywhere and that multiple cars are driving around the parking lot looking for a place to park.  Other students have told me that they have been late to class, just trying to find a parking space for fifth teen minutes.  For other students who try to save money and park on the side of Stanislaus, they have to show up early between six and six thirty am.  It seems that Stanislaus needs to make another parking lot.  I would suggest building the parking lot by the round about, the area that is covered in dirt.  Unless that land of dirt is going to be used for something else at Stanislaus.  With all the money that Stanislaus collects from students buying the permits each semester, I'm pretty sure some of it can used to create another parking lot.  If the university couldn't even do that, then they can raise the price so that they could create another parking lot.   Since there is no room to park at Stanislaus, it leads college students to park in front of someone's house and walk to there classroom.  Which may lead Stanislaus to lose money in the process if there is no room to park over there, it will also lead students to stop buying permits.  Creating this new parking lot may lead the university to receive thousands of dollars or hundred of thousands after so many years.