Classes Are Almost Done For The Semester!

I am almost done with my first semester of college! Whoo! It's really weird to think that in a few days (my last final is on Wednesday) I will be on break until late January. I would have to say, so far, my college experience has been a fairly positive one. While having classes every single day was pretty weird, considering the fact that I was homeschooled all through high school, I adapted to it fairly well The thing about homeschooling is that even though the level of school work you do is just as difficult as what public schoolers do (if not more difficult), it is very time efficient. So going into class every day as a college student it was a little weird just because it took up so much of my time. I think this has probably been one of the busiest periods of my life so far! But even then, I feel satisfied. I really do enjoy learning, especially learning about math. I was really getting into the flow of going to class every single day and seeing the same faces and having the same teachers. The big thing was that I felt really productive. Even though I was fairly busy, I knew that I was busy doing productive things. It helped me develop some good habits which I hope will continue to have as I go farther on in my academic career.

As of now all of my classes are done except for finals. Surprisingly, I'm actually a little sad about this. I really do think that I'll miss most of my professors and some of my classmates. I was quite fortunate this semester, just by luck, to be in classes with a fair amount of my friends from high school. While I wasn't really that close to most of them before this semester, now that the end is almost here I am really thankful that I was able to develop those friendships past just the stage of  being acquaintances. I'll even miss people that I didn't know before the start of the semester, especially all the people from my speech class. I'll miss the guy who sits right behind me who wants to be a fireman, but is also a really reassuring person and has a passion for shoes (I never saw him come to class with the same pair). I'll miss how the girl who always sits next to him really loves the Dewey Decimal system, and how she makes her speeches about them whenever she has the opportunity. I'll miss the two students who came from Australia who have really awesome accents, but also really interesting stories about their lives back in Australia.

I'll miss my professors too. Like how my speech professor tries her best to be as fair as possible, and despite having strong opinions on some issues always tries to listen to students and understand their point of view. I'll miss how my history professor always comes to class with some caffeinated beverage, and how tries to keep the class engaged by telling cool stories and making comparisons between important historical information and our modern daily lives. I'll miss how my math professor made mistakes sometimes, but always encouraged everyone to stay on their toes for his mistakes so that they could correct him. 

I'll miss this semester, but I'm also looking forward to the next one. Even beyond that, I'm looking forward to the day when I myself might be able to be a college professor. For the moment anyway, my life is looking pretty good. Not perfect, not by a long shot, but still good. I hope that my future self will be as satisfied as I am right now.