How was your first week?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Cal Poly Pomona
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<p>Well, I commute and I always left early so it wasn’t too bad. Traffic was only slow in a few spots coming home, but it only took about 20 minutes on average to get home (the normal average is 15 for me). </p>

<p>My legs hurt. D: I’m definitely not used to walking uphill all the time. I assume I’ll have some nice legs by the end of the semester, haha. It was ridiculously hot outside and I bought some shades from that lady, lol. There were so many people on campus Thursday I felt a little overwhelmed by it, but it wasn’t that bad on Friday.</p>

<p>My first class (Astronomy) did not say it had 105 seats open. It said like 30-60 and I only saw one section open of it (perhaps because I only viewed open classes). But I did not really expect to see 105 people seated in class! The professor has a very thick asian accent, so you have to listen really hard, but I learned a lot and he is pretty humorous.</p>

<p>The second class I had was Applied Probability Theory. The teacher was good and funny as well had high expectations for us since we’re all math majors.</p>

<p>My third class (first on Friday) was Astrophysics. I did not expect to see a lot of females! There were a good amount of them in that class. One pretty good looking too that I sat next to. The professor is very fast and we are actually going to start 10 minutes early from now on to cover more material. That is intense.</p>

<p>My fourth class (Operations Research) was full of the nerdy stereotypes I imagined. Until this one ridiculously pretty girl sat in front of me and I had to try very hard to concentrate on the lesson! lI’d say there were an equal amount of females and males in that class but the class was HEAVILY asian. I’m half asian, but I look very white so it’s hard for people to tell. The teacher is amazing and I had no trouble learning from her at all. </p>

<p>All of my teachers are pretty awesome. I know my Astronomy teacher came from UCLA (PhD), my probability teacher was a visiting professor at Columbia for bio-statistics (what I want to do for grad school) (UW-Madison, PhD), my Astrophysics teacher taught at Harvey Mudd for a number of years and has done several prestigious jobs (also the director of a project I want to get into who e-mailed me saying I should take his class!) (University of Chicago, PhD), and my Operations Research teacher is from Harvey Mudd and did her graduate work there at Claremont Grad school. So the teaching has been great, but I can tell they’re not going to go easy on us at all. No favoritism. At a community college I wouldn’t spend my weekends doing homework or studying unless it was before an exam…I am now so swamped with work I am about to do some household things at my apartment and then get straight to work. </p>

<p>Overall, I am happy with this result. It’ll be much more challenging here and I have learned already 10x more than I ever learned sitting in a CC classroom.</p>

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<p>What is this, a diary entry?</p>

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<p>No.</p>

<p>I wanted to know how other people’s first week went. I just recently transferred here and wanted to know how everyone else was faring. I put down my own experience.</p>

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<p>Oh, well technically it was only 2 days</p>

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<p>first class math was alright, seemed like pretty simple stuff
second class was healthy living and the teacher was only half there I feel, he kept going on about why its important to go to college like we werent planning on going. dont know how that has to do with stress.
third was bio and the teacher said hes going to have us do a sign in sheet every class, and attendance is 45% of our grade. seems like an easy class
4th was anthropolgy, we did meet and greats but not much else</p>

<p>you should join the transfers page on facebook</p>

<p>Sent from my SPH-D700 using CC</p>

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<p>as a high school senior, I greatly appreciated this thread. I am out of state and can’t go visit, so it’s difficult for me to get a feel for the campus (especially with a website like Cal Polys’ which is confusing and sometimes outdated).</p>

<p>Just saying thanks and hopefully I’ll see you on campus next year!</p>

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<p>@jazzcuzi,
You’re right about their website. They really need to revamp it, maybe with a more interactive feel and student testimonials. Here are some links to help you get a better feel of the campus.</p>

<p>[License</a> of Facilities - Cal Poly Pomona](<a href=“http://www.csupomona.edu/~licensingofspace/virtualtour.html]License”>http://www.csupomona.edu/~licensingofspace/virtualtour.html)</p>

<p><a href=“A Day At Cal Poly Pomona - YouTube”>A Day At Cal Poly Pomona - YouTube;

<p><a href=“Cal Poly Pomona Virtual Tour - YouTube”>Cal Poly Pomona Virtual Tour - YouTube;