University First: I took my first test today.
It was just for freshman seminar. So I figured it would be easy enough to just read the chapters and go take the test and get a one hundred on.
My piece of advice: I don't care what college class you're taking, YOU NEED TO STUDY. If I had studied the chapters we tested on and not just read them, I would have easily knocked that test out in twenty minutes and gotten a very high A. But now I'm praying for a B. On my first test. And I HATE B's.
Seriously, anyone who knows me will tell you, I'm a grade grubber. I don't settle for average grades. School has always been one of the things I'm really good at. I slacked off way more than I should have my junior and senior years in high school. If I hadn't, I would have been in the top five of my graduating class, not just number ten. I hate myself just a little bit for that.
Anyway, the test thing is my own fault. I just skimmed through the chapters and sort of read them. I didn't try enough. As I was sitting there staring at my paper and wondering what in the world the four characteristics of critical reading are, I decided that its time to buckle down. I'm in college now. No more procrastinating. No more doing things half way. No more putting things off to hang out with people or to take a nap or anything else. That worked in high school. But that does NOT fly here. I'm doing this right. I'm getting straight A's.
Even if it kills me.
