<p>I started school the day after labor day, and I told myself I'd study the material before class, and after, so I grasp it.
I tried to, I kind of did, but I didn't fully "Grasp" the content.
Now I'm about 3-4 weeks before a chemistry exam (i didn't take chem since 10th grade and my teacher then was horrible) and luckily, we've only gone through 4 chapters, 5th this week. I was doing the End of Chapter questions, and realized I couldn't even answer some of them from ch 2.</p>
<p>I feel really stressed about this already, and decided I'm going to tutoring. Hopefully, I can pull everything together and start to do my work correctly. Looks like i'll be living in the library from now on.</p>
<p>Who else feels this stressed due to lack of proper education in high school...?</p>
<p>I know how that is. My high school did zilch for me. You are not screwed. Seek out study tactics and stratagems. Having one poor semester will not kill you or your future, unless you are a compulsive perfectionist (In that case, start researching ulcer medication, rather than spending your time here.).</p>
<p>I actually went to tutoring sessions for math, she didn’t really help, but math is easy to find out. I joined an engineering assosiation which hold study groups apparently but there hasn’t been one yet. I’m going to have to ask my professor if there are any, if there aren’t I’ll go to tutoring for Chem. But yeah, next semester’s going to be worse… I heard physics and calc 2 are hard as hell…</p>
<p>I once went through 10 weeks (quarter system) of chemistry is less than a week. I struggled through the class and finally near the end of the term (panic time) I just sat down at page 1 and went straight through the book doing all the problems. I should have done it much earlier, I did great on the final.</p>
<p>Prepare a short list, no more than 2-3, of the questions you had the most difficulty with and take them to the professor during his/her office hours.</p>
<p>Definitely attend the TAs’ or professor’s office hours. It’s a huge help. Also, you made the right decision by signing up for tutoring. In my opinion, Chemistry IS a class you can cram for. The problems and concepts are all pretty straightforward (unlike in Ochem). However, I wouldn’t do that. Why build up to all that unneeded stress when you can prepare yourself early on? If you can set a goal of even studying for 2 hours a day, there’s no way you can’t get an A. That’s hardly living in the library. On top of lecture, discussion, office hours, and tutoring, that’s many hours of practice you’ll get.</p>
<p>I’m having a tough semester, 17 credits. The issue really is the one accelerated class I have which requires 3 written assignments per week. It’s sucking up all the time I have for my other classes, so I am seriously behind in all my other classes. I’ve just been doing what I have to, just barely scraping by. At least that class is over next week and I’m hoping I’ll get caught up after that, but, it’s stressful right now because I have tests in my other classes.</p>
<p>I feel like my high school did an OK job at preparing me, but I still get overwhelmed when I get a ton of stuff all at once! The fact that I have to write two-three stories every week for the newspaper makes life absolute hell…but I enjoy it. I have a hectic schedule this week. Next week will be a little bit more relaxed, but not by much. I have to study for bio exam, read 50 pages from my COMM class, about 100-120 pages in my SOC class, meet my adviser to switch major and talk about plans, write two articles (getting in contact with people and interviewing them is a pain sometimes), study for a Spanish exam this Friday, do Bio homework, and get started on my two essays for English and Sociology. Oh…then I have to make a power-point presentation in my bio class.</p>