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Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Midterms: The Rude Awakening

Well, I had my first real awakening in college so far. Midterms. Not so much midterms as the score I received on my Calculus midterm. Taking the test I felt pretty weird about the whole thing. I skipped 2 questions because I didn't know how to do them. I ended up getting a 53 out of 102 points on the midterm. Yeah... not my proudest moment in life. When I told my mom she basically went pretty crazy saying she wasnt paying 15 thousand a year for me to fail my classes and such. Honestly before I didnt stress so much in college. I would have movie nights with friends all the time, would always go hang out with people, and as long as I knew the basic idea of what was going on I thought i was fine. Well.... I wasnt..

Now I dug myself into a pretty big hole I would say. The midterm was worth 20% of my grade, so basically if I want to get an A- in the class I have to get 98-100% on the other three midterms and the final. If I want to get a B or a C i still have to average at least a B or a B+ on every test from now on. This is definitely doable for me, as I have the capability, I just lack the structure, organization, and discipline.

I hope I can pull off a B in this class, because the engineering program at UC Davis is really tough, and I need to keep my GPA afloat, meaning no C's. At least not in any lower division classes.

Monday, October 14, 2013

UC Davis: Bikes

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So I have been at Davis for almost three weeks now, and it has been a blast so far, to be honest. The people here are all super chill and super friendly. My room mates turned out to be really cool guys as well. My classes have been alright, so its all gucci for the most part.

One crazy thing most people don't know about Davis is the bikes. And by bikes I mean close to 40,000 bikes. Yup, pretty much every student at UC Davis gets around campus by bike, as there are no car access on campus. It is really cool because there is no traffic and its really quick to get from one side of campus to another. Even though I live off campus, it takes me approximately 5-10 minutes to get to any class, and if you ever been to Davis you know its a pretty big campus, with all the buildings spread out. To make the flow of traffic easier around campus there is a bike circle at pretty much every major intersection to direct the bikes so there are no accidents.

On the first day of classes all the non-freshmen sit on the quad near the most congested bike circle to watch freshmen navigate through the hundreds of bikes there. It is actually pretty funny, and is an UC Davis tradition, to watch freshmen fall on their bikes during the first week of school.