College Life

The truth was #5: I've been living in Oxnard mostly all my life.

This has is my first semester attending college and so far I like it. Not having any staff around all the time is something that I am enjoying the most. I can leave campus whenever I want and no one is going to call my house for missing classes.  My schedule is great and very flexible because I have time do work in between and after classes. Waking up at eight on Mondays and Wednesdays is fun but not as exciting as waking up at nine on Tuesday s and Thursday s since I get more sleep compared to when I was in high school; I had to wake up at seven in the morning. Even though some classes are challenging at this moment I can’t complain since I have friends to help me get by when I start to feel pressured. Study groups are something some of my friends I met and I are doing in order to help each other succeed in our more challenging classes.

Compared to high school, college is a little more fun. Since I got to pick my schedule I get to leave campus early and hang out with friends after school. Many of my friends went to Ventura College so sometimes it gets pretty lonely around here. The only thing I do not like is that many professor s won’t accept late work and so we have to stay on top of things at all times. There is no one to remind you when assignments are do so we have to be checking our syllabus every day. This was a little challenging for me because I was not used to checking when things were due since my high school teachers would always tell us a day or two before the assignment was due. As time passes by, I’m adapting myself to a new system of education and starting to like it; makes me feel more responsible.