When i first came to Mississippi College i thought that i may have wanted to major in biology. i have since discovered that that particular path is not for me. i am not saying this because the classes are to hard or anything like that, i just do not like biology. i think this is a good thing because now that i know what i don't want to do it will be much easier to figure out what i do want to do.
i know that i still want to minor in biology just because it would help me so much in med-school. i just do not know what i want to major in. the major that i am leaning the most heavily toward right now is a chemistry major. i have always liked chemistry more than biology just because i like numbers more than i do just memorizing stuff.
i guess what i am really wondering about is whether or not to trow on another minor. i feel like my true passion has always been physics, the only problem with that is i don't know how much it would help me when i go to med-school. i would really like to minor in physics just because i enjoy it so much, but with a second minor that might mean going to college for five years. i really have know idea what to do here so if you have any suggestions i would really appreciate them. thanks for reading.
Friday, October 24, 2008
Friday, October 17, 2008
6. facebook
I have urgent news for everyone; i just got a facebook profile. It's true; I lived nineteen years of my life without a facebook profile and, amazingly, i was pretty happy. everyone was telling me that i had to have one.
i was reluctant at first. As a fairly shy person, i did not know what to expect from this experience, but on night a friend of mine set me up a profile and i jumped in. i guess "jumped in" may be an exaggeration because for the first three days i had four friends.
now i am glad that i got facebook just because it has helped me to stay in touch with some of my friends from high school who went to different colleges. i guess i still do not quite understand why some people treat facebook like a religion, but i'm not going to delete my profile because, no matter how much it pains me to say it, facebook is pretty fun.
i was reluctant at first. As a fairly shy person, i did not know what to expect from this experience, but on night a friend of mine set me up a profile and i jumped in. i guess "jumped in" may be an exaggeration because for the first three days i had four friends.
now i am glad that i got facebook just because it has helped me to stay in touch with some of my friends from high school who went to different colleges. i guess i still do not quite understand why some people treat facebook like a religion, but i'm not going to delete my profile because, no matter how much it pains me to say it, facebook is pretty fun.
5. fall break
I don't know how it was for everyone else, but for me, fall break was great. I had been looking forward to it for quite a while just so i could get a chance to go home and rest a little bit. Nothing exciting happened over fall break, and the funny thing is, that is exactly what i was hoping would happen.
I had a chance to catch up on some sleep that i had been missing, thanks to my eight o'clock classes that i have every morning. I think that there is a verse in the Bible that says that a man cannot live on four hours of sleep alone, no, wait, that was bread.
Don't misunderstand what I am saying. i love to see my friends every day. i see them so often they feel like a family to me now; a crazy, crazy family. it is just nice to get away every now and then to spend some time with myself instead of with everyone else. fall break was a nice chance to recover and prepare myself to get back into this whole college thing.
I had a chance to catch up on some sleep that i had been missing, thanks to my eight o'clock classes that i have every morning. I think that there is a verse in the Bible that says that a man cannot live on four hours of sleep alone, no, wait, that was bread.
Don't misunderstand what I am saying. i love to see my friends every day. i see them so often they feel like a family to me now; a crazy, crazy family. it is just nice to get away every now and then to spend some time with myself instead of with everyone else. fall break was a nice chance to recover and prepare myself to get back into this whole college thing.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
rough week
I am really worried about the next week of school. what worries me about this week is the fact that i will have a lot of work to do. I am starting to get used to the college workload, which really is not that much more than i had in high school, but this next week may be the worst one that i have had so far.
the week will start off with a biology lab midterm on Tuesday. i know that there are a lot of people who are going to be taking this test and, i for one, am no where near prepared for it. After this i will have the chemistry lab midterm. this one does not bother me as much just because i like chemistry and i think i have a pretty good understanding of the labs that i have had so far. then of Friday i will have a biology test that is going to destroy me. the teacher is not the problem in this class i just hate biology. i understand that a lot of people like it, but it just isn't my thing.
i can see now that i am going to be spending a lot of time in the library this week if i want to get through it with my average in tact. oh well, i guess i am just going to have to do the work and get over it.
the week will start off with a biology lab midterm on Tuesday. i know that there are a lot of people who are going to be taking this test and, i for one, am no where near prepared for it. After this i will have the chemistry lab midterm. this one does not bother me as much just because i like chemistry and i think i have a pretty good understanding of the labs that i have had so far. then of Friday i will have a biology test that is going to destroy me. the teacher is not the problem in this class i just hate biology. i understand that a lot of people like it, but it just isn't my thing.
i can see now that i am going to be spending a lot of time in the library this week if i want to get through it with my average in tact. oh well, i guess i am just going to have to do the work and get over it.
Friday, September 26, 2008
3. Room to Grow
One thing that I really like about Mississippi College is the feeling that God is everywhere in this place. On an average day in my life before I started coming to Mississippi College, I could sometimes go through an entire day and never see God in the world around me. Here, on the other hand, is a completely different story. No matter where I go on this campus or the area around it the presence of God can be easily noticed.
Don't get me wrong, my love of God was strong before coming here. I knew Him in my heart and accepted Him as the most important part of my life, but many times I felt like my surroundings kept me from expressing my love for Him in the ways that I knew I should. In the short time that I have spent here I have come to understand that I will not be judged here for what I believe.
This has been the biggest aid to me to help me grow in the Lord. I do not really need someone to teach me about God, I figure that out with the help of the Holy Spirit, I just needed a place where I had room to grow. Mississippi College holds true to its mission statement in that it is helping to grow spiritually, but at the same time it is not pressuring me to believe anything that I don't think is true.
Don't get me wrong, my love of God was strong before coming here. I knew Him in my heart and accepted Him as the most important part of my life, but many times I felt like my surroundings kept me from expressing my love for Him in the ways that I knew I should. In the short time that I have spent here I have come to understand that I will not be judged here for what I believe.
This has been the biggest aid to me to help me grow in the Lord. I do not really need someone to teach me about God, I figure that out with the help of the Holy Spirit, I just needed a place where I had room to grow. Mississippi College holds true to its mission statement in that it is helping to grow spiritually, but at the same time it is not pressuring me to believe anything that I don't think is true.
Friday, September 19, 2008
2. first test
Now that school here at Mississippi college has been going on for a while I have experienced my first actual college exam. Biology has never been my favorite subject in the world, which isn't necessarily a good sign for a biology/pre-med major, but I didn't expect too do so bad on my first exam.
I shouldn't complain though because with some major bonus points I should be able to bring it up to almost an A. It's not the grade that bothers me. The only thing that really bothers me about the situation is that the test wasn't actually all that hard. Most of the questions that I missed were fairly simple I just didn't know the answer. Now that I look back on the experience i realize that there were a lot of things that I could have done to improve my grade, and that my grade could have been a lot worse than it was.
For one thing I could have done the assigned reading instead of just looking at the slides. I also should have probably studied for more than about an hour throughout the whole week. I realize that my professor could have made the test much tougher, and probably will the next time. So from now on I think that I will try to actually do my work and see if that doesn't maybe improve my grades.
I shouldn't complain though because with some major bonus points I should be able to bring it up to almost an A. It's not the grade that bothers me. The only thing that really bothers me about the situation is that the test wasn't actually all that hard. Most of the questions that I missed were fairly simple I just didn't know the answer. Now that I look back on the experience i realize that there were a lot of things that I could have done to improve my grade, and that my grade could have been a lot worse than it was.
For one thing I could have done the assigned reading instead of just looking at the slides. I also should have probably studied for more than about an hour throughout the whole week. I realize that my professor could have made the test much tougher, and probably will the next time. So from now on I think that I will try to actually do my work and see if that doesn't maybe improve my grades.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Intro Blog
Hi my name is Clay and this is my blog. I like to play video games and am learning to play guitar. I am a biology/pre-med major at Mississippi college. I am from Philadelphia Mississippi and I like to listen to alternative and progressive rock and just about anything else that is rock. That is about all there is to know about me.
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