Welcome Back!!!
After months of just laying around, working, coaching baseball, and other fun stuff, I managed to get myself up around 7am in the morning, eat a good breakfast, get ready, and head up to Lowell for my first day of classes. The commute up to UML wasn't too bad. Traffic on Rt. 128/I-95 was a bit slow, but it was never a crawl. Overall the commute was a good 40 minute drive, which was considered a normal run up to Lowell.
But there was one thing that surprised me the most: I got to avoid the annual first day parking crunch. How I managed not to get into that is just one big mystery to me. You can say I was really lucky. I drove into the "VIP Lot" (check my March or April blogs about some terminology my buddies and I made up) and found my favorite parking space vacant. (Score!) Right away, the start of my senior year was going better than expected. I got to see all my EP buddies again after 3 months of nothing. We all just had this similar feeling: surprised... "I can't believe we're seniors." After 3 long years with hardcore science GPA classes, we were there looking at each other knowing this will be the last semester/year together. At that point, I didn't even feel like a senior. It just felt like the first time we all met each other in Professor Chamberlain's Intro to EP class (and yes, the get up, get your number and address exercise).
I had 4 classes that day: Research Methods in EP, Exercise Prescription and Programming, Health Care Systems, and (oh man) Vitamins and Minerals. My first two EP classes were as expected, which was just a quick intro into senior year. We watched a video about Universal Precautions and about HIPPA (look it up). Health Care Systems was just a quick intro too. But there was one class that caught me by surprise: Vitamins and Minerals. At first, I thought it would be a general class about vitamins and minerals and its use, but it all came up to be a very detailed and structural biochemistry class. The professor was extremely nice and intelligent, but the information that I absorbed did not match what I expected. Besides, there were a few graduate students in there who were there because it was required. I basically planned to take that class to fulfill my nutrition minor. So after 3 hours of "what the heck I am doing here" I went into the library, looked up ISIS, checked my credits for the semester and found out that if I dropped the class I will still be a full-time student. The only bummer is that I have to wait until the spring semester to make up that one class. My original plan was to keep 5 classes for the fall and 4 classes for the spring, but obviously that's going to get switched around. Oh well.
I definitely have more to blog about my past weekend, the Lowell Spinners game (Thanks Elaine!), and other stuff about my first week. So please come back and read some more!
- If you have any questions about the college or about my commute, email me Christian_Tiongson@student.uml.edu.
Christian
P.S. I found this video in one of my blogs. It was a video of me driving from Malden/Melrose line to Lowell in a 11 minute stint. Don't worry it's a compacted quick video: Click here to watch my video!
But there was one thing that surprised me the most: I got to avoid the annual first day parking crunch. How I managed not to get into that is just one big mystery to me. You can say I was really lucky. I drove into the "VIP Lot" (check my March or April blogs about some terminology my buddies and I made up) and found my favorite parking space vacant. (Score!) Right away, the start of my senior year was going better than expected. I got to see all my EP buddies again after 3 months of nothing. We all just had this similar feeling: surprised... "I can't believe we're seniors." After 3 long years with hardcore science GPA classes, we were there looking at each other knowing this will be the last semester/year together. At that point, I didn't even feel like a senior. It just felt like the first time we all met each other in Professor Chamberlain's Intro to EP class (and yes, the get up, get your number and address exercise).
I had 4 classes that day: Research Methods in EP, Exercise Prescription and Programming, Health Care Systems, and (oh man) Vitamins and Minerals. My first two EP classes were as expected, which was just a quick intro into senior year. We watched a video about Universal Precautions and about HIPPA (look it up). Health Care Systems was just a quick intro too. But there was one class that caught me by surprise: Vitamins and Minerals. At first, I thought it would be a general class about vitamins and minerals and its use, but it all came up to be a very detailed and structural biochemistry class. The professor was extremely nice and intelligent, but the information that I absorbed did not match what I expected. Besides, there were a few graduate students in there who were there because it was required. I basically planned to take that class to fulfill my nutrition minor. So after 3 hours of "what the heck I am doing here" I went into the library, looked up ISIS, checked my credits for the semester and found out that if I dropped the class I will still be a full-time student. The only bummer is that I have to wait until the spring semester to make up that one class. My original plan was to keep 5 classes for the fall and 4 classes for the spring, but obviously that's going to get switched around. Oh well.
I definitely have more to blog about my past weekend, the Lowell Spinners game (Thanks Elaine!), and other stuff about my first week. So please come back and read some more!
- If you have any questions about the college or about my commute, email me Christian_Tiongson@student.uml.edu.
Christian
P.S. I found this video in one of my blogs. It was a video of me driving from Malden/Melrose line to Lowell in a 11 minute stint. Don't worry it's a compacted quick video: Click here to watch my video!
