{"id":157,"date":"2017-06-11T09:41:34","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T09:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/hzhang4\/?p=157"},"modified":"2017-06-12T04:38:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T04:38:28","slug":"my-first-year-college-life-is-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/hzhang4\/2017\/06\/11\/my-first-year-college-life-is-over\/","title":{"rendered":"My first year college life is over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, I am going to write something personal in this blog; My first year college life is over.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_158\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-158\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/hzhang4\/files\/2017\/06\/J9L6HG.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-158\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/hzhang4\/files\/2017\/06\/J9L6HG.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-158\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gif From: http:\/\/makeagif.com\/gif\/the-beatles-hello-goodbye-J9L6HG<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BTW, why Paul McCartney is this cute!!!!!!<\/p>\n<p>Alright, back to our sad topic. Yes, I am going to need to say goodbye to my first year college life, and I have to say that I actually learn a lot during my first year of college.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong>Just ask your classmates or professors for help if you have questions. \u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Yes, just like what I said: ask them for help if you have some questions or have trouble understanding the classes. <strong>It&#8217;s not like you gonna lose a leg or something,<\/strong> so just ask them gently for help and I promise you that you will always get the help you need.<\/p>\n<p>As an international student, I was too shy to raise questions in or after classes. And the consequence of the shyness was that the assignments I finished sometimes cannot meet the requirements. No wonder those assignments were not good enough, I did not even understand the whole requirements of the assignments at that time. Applause for myself, I even have the courage to write something I did not even fully understand.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_168\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-168\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/hzhang4\/files\/2017\/06\/tumblr_mza5xnTSjn1qf9mevo1_500.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-168\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/hzhang4\/files\/2017\/06\/tumblr_mza5xnTSjn1qf9mevo1_500.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-168\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gif From: https:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/search\/self%20five%20gif<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<p>Then I realized that I cannot always like that. I need to make progress. So, I told myself again and again at that time that <strong>I will not suddenly become an idiot just because I ask questions with accent!!!<\/strong> I began to ask questions in class and also ask questions to my classmates to make sure that I can fully understand the assignments and knowledge. Right now, I can clearly see the progress I made, and I am learning a lot through this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So, just be brave, and ask questions!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> Oh, and btw, why not, it&#8217;s FREE. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_160\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-160\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/hzhang4\/files\/2017\/06\/tumblr_ncizpj5jli1sjwh03o1_400.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-160\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/hzhang4\/files\/2017\/06\/tumblr_ncizpj5jli1sjwh03o1_400.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"197\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-160\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gif From: https:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/search\/evil%20laugh%20gifs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>2. <strong><span style=\"color: #993300\">Manage your time effectively.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This is really important. This is really important. This really important!!!!<\/strong> Write something three times if they are important!!!! ok, this is my theory, but, listen to me, it is really important!!<\/p>\n<p>College life can be challenging, but, at the same time, it can be really interesting and exciting. <strong>So, it is necessary for us to manage our time well to make sure that when we get social, we do not mess up our grades.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is a confession I need to make here. That is I totally kind of mess up my grades because I enjoyed my party life too much. Even though I claimed to everyone, including myself, that being crazy at Friday and Saturdays&#8217; nights will never have influence on my study life, but, right now, I totally realized that those words were bulls***. Totally Bulls***. \u00a0The exhausted me after parties can never do any work during every weekend, which means that my study time became far less compared with other people.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_186\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-186\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/hzhang4\/files\/2017\/06\/giphy-4.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-186\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/hzhang4\/files\/2017\/06\/giphy-4.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-186\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gif From: https:\/\/giphy.com\/gifs\/life-party-photography-CwRY5ZIGHMT2U<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So, here is something I am gonna do in next year: <strong>find the balance between the social life and study time.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, of course I know parties, raves are super fun, but for better grades, <strong>something need to be sacrificed.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>3.<strong><span style=\"color: #993300\"> You will still be alright if you did not get an A.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Maybe I was just being naive, but the fact was that every time when my grade became a B, I felt so desperate that I even want to drop out from the college. However, I realized that the anxious and concerned mood is not helping at all. <strong>What I need is a mature attitude to deal with the unexpected things in my life, including the not good enough grades.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So, I guess what I need to understand is that the courses in college is hard, no doubt, so there is no way that I can always get easy &#8220;As.&#8221; I still need to study hard to get decent grades, but I also need to understand that my life will not be ruined just because I got a B or C. Well, C is still a little bit too bad for me, so let&#8217;s just hope C will never happen.<\/p>\n<p>These are the most valuable things I learned during my first year of college. I know that I still have long long way to go, but I do hope that with the experience and strategies I got from this year, I am heading to a better sophomore year!!!!!<\/p>\n<p><strong>So, work hard, play hard!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Enough for today&#8217;s blog. And here comes my best blessing to all my readers and everyone:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_70\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/hzhang4\/files\/2017\/04\/cef00bfab1872819b071f8bb126b33ba.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-70\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/hzhang4\/files\/2017\/04\/cef00bfab1872819b071f8bb126b33ba.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gif From: https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/105764291226198777\/<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And btw, not only every night;<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s make it every single day!!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, I am going to write something personal in this blog; My first year college life is over. 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