General Discussion

registering for classes is lame.... the times are just weird... they should implement uniform times.. i want enough time and not too much time to get into the next class...

The transition to college wasn't too bad for me. I mean, it was a bit nervewrcking, but once you get the hang of it it's not so bad. It was more going back to high school that really did it for me. I began to get so used to the whole hour and a half (or longer) classes with no bells to signal the end that when I visited my high school it was so weird for me. I almost jumped when I heard the bells go off and the classes seemed so short to me.

The transition to university life was a change in life. Me and my g/f moved to a new town and moved out from our parents. Kinda was the final step to being an adult I guess. Now I've graduated and we have moved back to our home town again. University life wasn't much different from high school tho. Parties and study study study.

My transition was a big difference in culture. I came from a shitty poor excuse, hip-hop dominant, civic driving, asian gangsta wannabe, thug crap of a high school. I mean every day in high school, I had to be a person whom I don't want to be. I also hate being a follower of "their" latest trends.

Then I went to my University. The people here are more mature and they don't judge you as bad as my high school. Hell, it brought the "geek" in me that was withheld for a very long time. People judge you most of the time as a person, not with shallow reasons.

The first transition was scary at first because it felt like going into a foreign country. You have no idea where everything does or what you supposed to do. But after you know most of the procedures and how everything works, it feels right at home, most of the time. I made more close friends who actually cared about me in the University than my 4 years of High School.

Because well, in my high school, if they ever went into my room, they would say "What the hell is with this cartoon bullshit". Heck, one time when everyone got either a Honda Civic or Acura Integra, I decided to buy a 1982 Datsun/Nissan 280ZX Turbo as my first car. Smoke anyone in a straightaway. Only problem was that one time I found my car as a wreck after school. It was so bad, I had to claim it "salvaged" condition on the car. >_<

Polytechnic exam - passed. Year there and decided that uni had the greener fields and all that. Another exam - passed. Been two years in uni and have to admit that it hasn't been *too* difficult yet. But here's a tip: make that bloody 'personal study-plan' at all costs and from the start! Plan what courses you do every year and make SURE that they belong to your program. I made the mistake of choosing wrong courses and thus out of the 100+ sw only about 50 are "valid." ¬_¬

As to culture, no problems; the school from where I came was pretty relaxed and kewl from the start. :)

I'm doing second semester of the Music University (you can't immagine, it's really difficult subject here) in USP (Universidade de São Paulo - Brasil). I like in future teach music to children (5 years old ~ adolescent, maybe), I like to teache piano too (particular), It's will be very funny and good!!! I will use Martenot or Edgar Williems's method, I think (both is interesting, I will use some kind of mixed theory) and of course I will use the Grammany method to Rhytm subject.