Hello everyone, it is with my greatest pleasure and gratitude to write this last blog. Thank you to many who took time out of your day to listen to my adventures here at UCI. This will be my last entry as a zot blogger and as a college Freshman (Yay), It’s been a rough year and I’m glad it’s coming to an end but if I’m being honest, it only gets worse from here. Don’t be startled this is my personal opinion, it probably won’t be the same for you(hopefully). You might be wondering why it would get worse, but I like to believe that your dreams should scare you and that means the harder things get the closer you are to achieving it.
This last entry is going to be a fat rant, so let’s just get the pleasantries out the way. I’m very glad, I signed up to be a zot blogger and I recommend anyone interested to go for it. In the beginning of the year, I came to UCI with no expectations whatsoever because you can only be disappointed if you had expectation in the first place (take note kids), so if the bar is already on the ground, it can’t get any lower. Despite that, I still had goals that I wanted to experience. I wanted to try and learn how to swim, but that didn’t work out. Aside from my crippling battle to actually sit my ass down and sleep, it also didn’t work out. There has been improvement, so I guess that counts as *achieved*.
Compared to the other bloggers, I just rant and that’s why for this entry I plan on doing what I do best. I’m sure you all remember those guest speakers that would come and talk about how college was very humbling. Unfortunately, I’m here to tell you they weren’t lying. If anything, I would like to say that the way college humbles everyone is a little different and that is what we are going to be talking about. As a man coming from humble beginnings, I learned to humble myself rather than get humbled. This isn’t about my bruised ego because I don’t have one, but I would say there are some things that I was fairly confident in until I got to college.
From my high school experience, I believe that it would always be beneficial as a student to have a good relationship or somewhat of a relationship with your teacher. This is my personal advice to the incoming undergrad, “Sometimes it’s not always you, but the teacher”. In a very respectfully but disrespectful way, I really thought that this teacher was good because actually made the effort to talk to the students. In the end, it just turned out that he was trying to do his job (if you called that doing your job). In this class, I put in the effort to make friends in my class and frequently talk to my teacher if I had any question. This was as healthy as a healthy relationship with your teacher could get, I ended up failing that class and I should’ve been bummed out, but I personally knew that I did what I was supposed to do and worked to get a good grade.
The reason why I’m mentioning this is because during your second year of college, you guys are going to experience the “THRILL” of picking classes against “New Only”(Sarcasm). Unfortunately, I was graced with the lesson of learning how much of a difference it makes when your teacher actually knows how to teach. Now being somewhat of a veteran my advice to the incoming freshman who haven’t completed their GE. If you can’t complete it your first year, I suggest you try and knock out as many GE’s as possible because right now you could more or less say you are competing with other freshman’s and believe it or not, it’s definitely better. When it’s time for you to pick classes during your second year, you not only have to compete with other students who also know what the good classes are (second year) but also the freshman’s. Sorry not sorry guys I’m really not feeling you guys right now because classes are a lot harder to pick (I say this like I wasn’t a freshman before).
As per usual, it was nice talking to you guys and I hope these blogs actually help you guys
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