With the recent changes to an online learning experience through Zoom, students have had some leniency with class times and coursework. I was fortunate enough to have a few professors who pre-recorded lectures and posted them, instead of a live Zoom lecture. With the additional time that quarantine has allotted us, I was able to find time for a total of 25 units. Granted, three of those units are from an undergraduate research assistant position. However the workload has been transferred online, and has increased almost to as much as a real class time. I am currently taking a wide variety of courses, with one major class, one minor class, a GE requirement and some random classes that sounded interesting. I don’t necessarily need these random class credits to count towards anything, but I am hoping to take them for a good letter grade and boost my GPA.
With four GE courses and two major/minor courses, I was swamped in the beginning. My planner has become my best friend and I keep track of every lecture, pdf file, and audio uploaded. I realized that I was trying to keep up with my GEs more than my major class, and I knew that my focus had to shift. I was trying so hard to maintain a good grade for the other classes that I was falling behind in lectures for my major class.
