Freshman Year Final Reflection (College Rewind)

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Mmm. And what's a PLO? I've moved out, and I am officially done with my first year of college on. I just wanted to take some time to reflect and talk about how college was not what I expected. I really went into it, not knowing what to expect, because some people said that college academics were super super easy, way easier in the high school but otherwise said that they were way harder and I'm majoring in stem. So I just basically thought that pre Rex for STEM can't be ever really easy and so went in with the mentality to get straight to work. I'm really glad that I came in with that mentality because some classes definitely were the hardest classes I've ever taken. Like my bio class, they were really hard, but they were still manageable, And even for non stem classes, the work was more like tedious work, and so they weren't necessarily difficult. The workload actually seemed really, really compatible. We're definitely harder than high school classes. You have less classes, but oh, so you have a lot more time because you go to Les classes and so you just spend the rest of the day just studying. I think classes were really manageable because I spent so much more time studying for them. Another big difference that I didn't really expect coming out from high school is that in high school you get exams passed, the small quizzes and other assessments that all go into a great book. In college there's really just usually two midterms and a final. If you screw up any one of those three things, you could look permanently rank you grade moving on to professors in high school, there's always that one or two teachers who nobody really liked because they could never teach for their life. In college, I didn't think that would happen, because all these professors have PhDs and therefore have some credibility with their material that they're teaching because they have their PhDs. They really spend their entire lives focusing on research and not on teaching. So the good thing is, if you go and seek them out after class and really try to get them to explain, they will reveal details that they didn't know were important during class. That's something that I learned to do in college is to really take initiative and go to office hours and ask for help, or else nobody's really gonna come and offer you help chase after you to make sure you understand. I even encountered a professor who really, really, really prioritized teaching. Unlike high school, you don't really go home after classes and SoHo you bring a friend and who hang out with 24 7 in school really, really influences your social being an international student. What's the time zone differences? My friends, I made during college really, really my biggest support systems this year, and at the same time, I've really only known them for like a couple of months. I'm also not want to go out to Fracked or go drinking crazily at night just because I don't feel comfortable in those situations. I'm really glad that the friends that I made straight off the bat oh, so didn't necessarily have to do those things. I didn't feel pressured to really partake in, I guess, the party drinking nature of darkness. To be honest, Dartmouth's drinking culture and I guess Dartmouth's reputation and generalize a party school really concerned me in the beginning, because again, I don't like those environments because I feel so weird, and I'm so glad that I met the people that I did. I don't feel like I necessarily missed out on big social events because I didn't go to practice go out every night. In the beginning, I kind of just took the mindset of just try out a lot of them and see what I like. There are inevitable schedule conflicts, so you can only pick and choose separate clubs that you want to go to and that some of the clubs don't turn out the way that I expected them to. So I would like join a club for a term and then realized I don't really enjoy what I'm doing in that club, or I don't feel like I want to be involved. I don't know if that's necessarily a good thing, like, I really enjoy the fact that you can jump from the club, but I also miss out on the long term investment was like a project or something that I could feel like I actually was involved. I'm hopeful because in the spring term I actually found a couple of clubs that I really, really actually want to be involved in the long term. I really enjoy my role in that group now for the nitty gritty, smaller details that I've basically covered my other videos. The fact that you can't access your family really psychologically was really weird. I'm also really surprised that I didn't feel as home sick as I did, because I expected to feel really weird transitioning to a new place, not just because of the people that are different from back home, but also because I come from a city and handover is a real moment out. I think I was just so busy with everything's that I didn't have time to anyone, And secondly, this was my first time living alone, and I'm really surprised with how well it went. There's the small details that I I have missed because I didn't really think that I would be doing them by myself, like, for example, realizing that I needed to buy books for the room or setting of shower schedules or even opening up my bank account. You don't want it to address the issue with balancing YouTube and college. I honestly don't think that I did it that will this past year, for example, in the spring term, when I wanted to explore more, kind of just put YouTube on the back burner. The reason, I think, is because I couldn't really do everything that I wanted to do active Mickley or socially, without lowering the quality of my videos. So this summer I'm kind of really just taking time to figure out what I want to make and produce videos. I want to watch and try things that I want to try, and depending on how this summer goes, I will be adjusting my posting schedule or a content for YouTube accordingly. So I'm really excited to see what happens at the end of summer next fall, and, as always, I'll see you guys next.