now i remember why i hate new schools...

I am not what one would call a social butterfly, lol. I get this strange butterfly effect where they feel like they are trying to come out and its nauziating... today is my first day of college after I took a year off and the feeling is back stronger than ever... specially because I'm afraid I'll end up getting lost lol. LLC isn't a big campus but still larger than the 150 kid high schol I went to. Lol. So help me out here... anyone else ever feel this way about anything?

 

just in life in general, I always feel like I'm lost and just wandering. Just take a breath, and relax. Write out some directions for yourself, keep it in a notebook taped to the inside cover or something that way you can just have it open in front of you while your walking around.

Or draw some maps with building and stuff around them that way if you get turned around somewhere you can always just open a book and find your way. Sometimes getting lost is the best thing thou, you get to see stuff you never would have otherwise.

 

Yeah I'll have to do that for tomorrow I just loo,ed at today's schedual 2 classes and they happen to be next door to each other!!! Score for me! Lol

 

When I first started working at the place I'm at now, I couldn't find the bathroom without someone showing me the way. I got lost the first week almost every day. And the place has many buildings, a lot of them connected underground so we are going under the streets to different places and after 4 years I still get a knot when someone says we are going to a different building for something. I feel like a rat in a maze - only there's no cheese at the end, just work.

 

I am a very shy person. SO with every new adventure--driving,college, career, new church--I get that feeling. But I feel like each time I am forced to do things out of my comfort zone, the more prepared I am for new things. Which I believe is good, because life is full of new things!

 

I just started school for the first time in 5 years (4 year break for the marines but I'm back where I stated lol) I'm not shy by any means, but I think if u just treat it like a job that needs done and just go to class do the work and keep to yourself( if that's what you like) give it a few weeks I'm sure you'll make a few friends and itll be easier for you. on another note, I love being back in school.

 

I've switched colleges three times now, so that's old hat for me. I always go and find all my classes before the first day, so I know what the area looks like at least. I'm definitely a chatty Cathy, but I never initiate a conversation with someone...however being a female in a male-dominated field means that it usually isn't a problem.

Something I realized is that half the people on campus are in the same boat as you. I'd always feel weird sitting and eating alone if my boyfriend was in class and couldn't eat with me, but if you look around, half the people are eating alone anyway, and most of them are probably thinking the same thing.

 

Well today wasn't so bad. Math is my worst subject and I blurted out what I thought was the right answer and I was off by .03 so yeah that was embarassing for me.. but I found out an old school mate is in my math class she and I never talked before but I'm hoping that'll change lol. She was good at math and I may need help xD

@jpatt - I am shy til I get to know my surroundings.. so this time next week I'll feel dumb that I felt nurvous lol. But I took a year of to save for college.

@kinezumI - what are you studying? I've visited the school twice before but I get lost easy lol. I got lost going from room NE111 to NE109, they didn't number room 109 but still. I noticed today the same thing but a lot of them knew others but were sitting alone... I'm from a school of 150 and I only saw 1 person I knew... oh well time to put my big boy pants on and attack some people lol. Working in 10th grade

 

Do you have a smartphone? There are apps that track your direction from a starting point for future reference. There's walking direction apps too.

Might help.

 

I used to be the same way at college. I would start getting nervous on the way to school. Over time as you get to know more people it may become a lot easier. Either way I had to get used to it because my degree involves a lot of presentations and discussions. Think of it this way, you aren't the only one feeling that way. There was six people who got up in the middle of my organic chemistry class because they realized it was the wrong class. That is one reason why not too much happens the first day. Then again I have had over motivated teachers that start out full throttle on the first day .

 

I'm studying bioengineering. What are you studying?

 

My work place switches every week. Usually in different pu lic schools around Maryland. Its contracting and by the time I figure out the job site were moving on to the next school.

I usually wander around places I don't know usually ending up lost.

 

You just gotta grab life and show it who's boss. Also, being in college is a great time to become comfortable with yourself. Don't let things like eating along bother you. Be yourself and proud of who you are and what you're doing. People will see that and both like and respect you for it. It's a perfect time to make your own path and be a leader instead of a follower.

That being said, when I first started college I definitely found all my classes before the first day or left for class super early in case I got lost. I also went to 3 different schools, one being UW-Madison. There's like 40000 students over 16 miles of campus but soon, you'll get your routine down and it'll be just a regular day for you

 

@kinzumI - believe it or not... English major xD I love reading, writing, and editing. Even though I don't have the best grammer or spelling I can point it out most of the time, I'm just to lazy to fix my own.

@ meeps - trust me I'm more than comfertable with myself, its the other people that are in my world I'm uncomfertable with lol. And some of them are to big to show who's boss, haha.

@Chevy - yesterday my 2 classes gave us homework already and today my 3 classes have yet to give any... my humanities through the arts class focuses on the holocaust and I have to find info on rise of the dictator (not sure if posting his name is allowed on most forums its blocked) and math just sucks lol.
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psalm18.2 - my smart phone won't connect to the app store so I can't download any apps... but my classes are all next to each other... there are 6 buildings and I only go to 2 of them and that's only because my comp class is in Neal Hall where the other 4 are in Northeast

 

I can help with math if you're ever stuck I'll be taking differential equations next semester.

 

I can help with math if you're ever stuck I'll be taking differential equations next semester.

PLEASE TELL ME YOUR SERIOUS... if so I love you much right now I have a friend that is studying to be a math teacher but our scheduals never match to meet up so she can help me out... I'm in a starter math that I won't get credit for because my act score in math was subpar(1 word?) So it is like a prerequisite(?) Before I have to take statistics...

 

1. Subpar is one word. (I've always had a knack for languages haha, I got a 36 on the English section of the ACT ) Prerequisite is also correct.
3. I would love to help! Just send me a message whenever you have a question, I'm on here all the time (maybe a little too much... ). I probably won't be on as much when my classes start next week, but surely at least once a day.

I think that's silly how they use ACT scores. At the schools I've gone to, you take a math placement test. The ACT is in no way representative of the type of math you learn in most classes; sure there's geometry in there, but a lot of it is "logic math" that you never actually learn.

Edit: I did post a thread in general discussion basically saying "send me your school questions!" because I've taken a lot of classes and such. (I'm 23 and I've been a full-time student since I graduated high school. I just keep changing my major..I'll get a degree someday. ) I'll have to dig up the thread and bump it, now that more people are in school.

 

@Chevy - yesterday my 2 classes gave us homework already and today my 3 classes have yet to give any... my humanities through the arts class focuses on the holocaust and I have to find info on rise of the dictator (not sure if posting his name is allowed on most forums its blocked) and math just sucks lol.

I'm surprised that is a topic that a class is focused on, but I haven't really looked at classes offered outside of my degree. I'm right there with you on math, right now I have statistics which isn't hard. It's nice that I don't have any more math after this semester, and I wouldn't figure you will have too much math being an english major. Despite being loaded with homework already, it was all made better with an opportunity to take my ecology course doing studies for a week in the Smoky mountains. What is your plans once you get a major in English?

 

I can help with math if you're ever stuck I'll be taking differential equations next semester.

Will you still assist me as well? IF I need it..

 

No! Haha just kidding, of course ;D Just send me a PM or email if you have a question.

 

I can help with math if you're ever stuck I'll be taking differential equations next semester.

I just read through what differential equations is, and it seems like something that makes calculus look easy. I'm glad there are people like you who are good with math because I probably would have never made it through calculus without people who are knowledgeable with math. I've got to say that bioengineering sounds like an awesome career.

 

i'm starting my 3rd year at the same college and I went a few weeks ago and got lost in a building I had most of my classes in... Stupid people changed the numbers of the rooms over the summer. So now when I go back next week I have to learn a new system. Oh well

Plus all my friends transferred so I know nearly no one. But I might run into some old friends that just got out of highschool because all of my classes this year are basic courses hopefully. I hate not knowing someone in my class, I usually never talk to anyone unless I know someone.

Then I have the trusty new basketball members I have to whip into shape for this year (hopefully we make it to nationals this year and not just regional finals) I hate dealing with the boys.

Mostly I just keep to myself and get my work done. Or at least that is the plan for this semester. Got to rock out the algebra so I don't have to take anymore math

 

Chevy - the class is focused on how the people of that time period related what was happening though pictures, paintings, writings, sculptures, ect. Our teacher wants us to learn a little about the war started and why... I wasn't to excited to know the class is one about death but in the end I think I'll be glad I took it... and my plans for my degree will be one of 2 things... editor or teacher and I will be writing books... I've already started one my friend is my idea helper lol. I tell her random things and she helps me make them a story .

KinezumI - you skipped 2 in your numbering lol. Thanks a lot for the help my math classes run Tuesdays and Thursdays at 930am. I forgot what I scored my English and writing but they were the only 2 I passed. I think the math was unfair because they gave the test to us in 10th grade and I wasn't in geometry or algebra 2 the had placed me in algebra 1 for a 2nd year in a row... I had a stupid school when I moved and they messed with my credits.

 

Lol woops I was going to add a 2 and decided not to, and forgot to fix the numbering

 

No harm no foul and I found out my 2 bff's Ave the same break in classes as I do on Mondays, Wednesday, ,and Fridays. We also have a subway in the school so we plan to hang there yay! My one friend is a sophmore and the other started this year with me so lots of fun
Oh and AWESOME news regarding my asasin snails.. but I have to post it in my snail board