My First Week as a College Student

The first week as a college student just flew by. First week I learned how life is like being a college student living on campus and from living at home. During the first part of the week I was still living at Scott Hall. During those days prioritizing was very difficult most of the summer scholars just wanted to have fun, making it more difficult to focus. While living at home prioritizing school work is much easier as there aren’t as many distractions from other people. In the days I lived at Scott Hall and attended school I felt very lucky as the only homework I had to do for the week was read a few pages from the book and documents at the UNO Blackboard. Learning how to handle distractions and having time management will come a long way in living at campus if I decide to do that.
Not only did I have to find out how college life is like from home or living at campus. I found out how college professors are like. I am enrolled in History 1120 with Dr. Scherer. Dr. Scherer reminds me a lot of my football coach/ AP History teacher Mr. Wortman. My college professor reminds me a lot of my high school teacher because they both tend to move the class pretty fast and just keep talking without slowing down unless someone where to say something. Other than that the course is different than a high school class because our professor doesn’t care if you show up to his class or not or even take notes of his lecture (not a good thing to do). I can’t really say if this class is easy or not as I haven’t had anything for a grade yet until I take my first test tomorrow.
It is good to know that I am not alone and that I am with nine other summer scholars taking the class. I am fortunate to have a study group led by our RTA Caitlin Sheley where we can help each other. In our study group we help each other by clarifying anything we might be confused on or by helping each other with our notes. By having a study group twice a week it just makes things easier from transitioning from high school to college. With all that being said wish me luck tomorrow as it will be my first grade in history!

Residence Life with Summer Scholars

How many people can say that they lived on campus without graduating from high school? Not many that’s for sure, but I am one of those who can say yes as I am fortunate enough to be a part of the 2010 Summer Scholars Program at UNO. By being a part of the program I was given the opportunity to live on campus at Scott Residence Hall. Part of me was excited and couldn’t wait to live on campus but another part of me was nervous as I was going to live with people that I have never met before and not knowing how I was going to spend my time there.
As I arrived checked in to my dorm, I ran in to two of my three roommates Paul Nguyen and Rafael Estrada. The moment I saw Paul I was relieved to see someone I had met before during the school year and got know many new friends from Papillion-LaVista, Millard North, Millard South, Burke, etc. (Sorry that I didn’t mention everyone’s school little short on time). My third roommate Garyth Barnes is an interesting person as he is a very open minded person and knows how to lower tensions within the group and can get laughs going among me and the other scholars. I got to know many people at Carol Joy Holling Camp. We were split into three groups mine was called Super Fly! At the camp my group and I built trust and confidence with each other by completing tasks such as rock climbing, high ropes course, and other challenges.
Not only getting to know my fellow scholars was cool in my stay at Scott Hall but also the RTAs. The RTAs are awesome as they kept us occupied with many activities such as Mojo Scavenger Hunt, Outdoor Fun , etc. They also helped us through any questions that we had throughout our stay. All of them gave us the respect we want and in return all of the scholars did as well. All I can say is thank you all and see you at class Car'Lika, Jarett, Caitlin, Miguel, Koua, and Tricia.