Extra Credit Blog Post: My First Year at Longwood

This year so far has been great. I have learned so much and made amazing friends. I have also experienced new things. The most important thing to me this past semester has been the professors. I have had nothing but amazing professors. I think that is a wonderful testament to Longwood as a school. The fact that the professors are so accommodating and love what they do. When professors love what they do, they convey their message to students so much better. Everybody has their own way of teaching and/or learning, so obviously not everyone will follow along with every professor. I know many people who can just take notes and get the topic down really well, however I am not one of them. I take notes so professors will think I am paying attention. I am paying attention even if I’m not taking notes, however sometimes in math heavy classes taking notes distracts me from paying attention to learning the process.

That brings me into my next point which is math class. I didn’t have any this past semester, but I do have Macroeconomics, accounting, and Statistics next semester. This being said I am very nervous for it. I have never been the kind of person who is good with math so I’m not really looking forward to it. I do know that there are many outlets to get help with these subjects, so that eases my mind as well as my mom’s. She always wants me to be successful but doing that in math has never been easy for me.

Going into next semester almost feels like it will be easier despite the differences in class difficulty. Now that I know how everything works like canvas (which I had never used until I came here), and all of the school portals for registration and all of that fun stuff. I feel like I will have more time to get out and do fun things because I now know my way around town and have more friends. So I hope everyone’s final stretch of this semester comes to an end in a wonderful way. As well as their next semester being fun and full of great adventures and good people and grades.