Each Fall an army of eighteen-year-old "adults" floods USF, expecting to finally set foot in the long prophesized "real world." They soon discover that college, and the real world, are whatever these freshmen make of them. In constructing their identities, most are required to take a basic writing course. Creative Loafing has chosen four of those students to blog for the Daily Loaf.
This week, as the students know, was a test week. Just like during any other week there are so many opportunities to spend time having fun and doing anything else but study. For me, this test week carried some surprises.
I usually try to get to class no matter what. I am not really a reading person and I try to get most of my material through the lectures. The later turns out to be not so easy a task, because often the lectures are not long enough or the lecturer feels like we should really be reading instead of getting the material from him the easy way, through the lecture. At any rate, my rule is to show up to class with no exceptions. Well, this week this rule saved me twice…
This article appears in Oct 15-21, 2008.