After all...finally...I survived my first year in university! Woohoo! I learned a lot of stuff, mainly in physics and mathematics.
Speaking of physics...my instructor was the best! I can hear her enthusiasm while teaching. We also had discussion quizzes, in which we were given a set of challenging problems, and we as a class, will discuss our answers and strategize finding solutions to those. We worked together as a class. Our instructor was always there for us when we had questions. It was fun (somehwat) competing to discover solutions—like the ah! ganito pala! moments. It also helped that our class size is small, so we knew each other better and our instructor was able to dedicate more time to helping each other. Though, the course pace was a somewhat faster than other unis in my country, that I struggled a bit with catching up. Also, I got lower scores on the Long Exams than expected.
However though, I did not learn as well in our lab classes. I really did want to learn; it could be fun. But my shyness prevented me from taking a share of our work in my group (this is a recurring theme throughout my life in uni). It did not help that my coursemates probably already had experience with labwork and I didn’t. As a result I managed to swift through the course without even knowing how to use a vernier caliper, or how to set up a force table, or use a GoDirect sensor. I really regret these; but at the same time, I don’t even know if I could perform better if I were given a second chance.
ALso...SINONG NAG-ISIP NA MAGANDANG IDEYA YUNG GINAWA NAMIN SA PRACTICAL EXAM. In our practicals we were asked to repeat every experiment we did in class but in a span of 5 MINUTES each, all by ourselves HoW tF am I supposed to perform well in that! Even if I performed well with my groupmates (which I did not), it’s not like I can prepare for the exam by fucking buying a force table and re-doing all the experiments at home.
For this semester, I was taking the rough equivalent of Calculus II in American universities. It starts off with various integration techniques and ends with 3-dimensional vector calculus. Though the topics were not that difficult per se, combined with the fact that I’m taking physics at the same time and that the lessons were quite fast paced meant that I couldn’t master the topics as well. Though the majority of problems were more-or-less straightforward, the time alloted was juuust somewhat more than enough to solve every problem. As such, I performed worse than the previous calculus course I took.
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