It was for Intro to Psych. When people were explaining to me how difficult my professor's tests were, they really were not kidding.... I knew I didn't do so well, but I actually got a grade worse than I had imagined.  

I ended up getting a 75% on my midterm.... after the curve. Sigh. 

I still have two more midterms left. And I know it's not going to get any easier for me. The next midterm will be one that I have to make-up because I'll be in NYC during that time. And the final midterm (which is technically our final exam) is on the day after my birthday.... lovely. 

I know many people at Northwestern can just study a few days before the midterm and do relatively fine, but since I'm so rusty at studying, I need to start way earlier. And I'm so used to taking exams where I just had to memorize facts, but I'd say more than 3/4's of the questions were all application-based, which is what I struggle with the most. Of course, college exams would be so different from high school ones. I can't believe it's been more than three years since my last scantron, multiple-choice exam. I've always been pretty good about tests growing up in school, but it's so weird that now that I'm focusing on piano only now, my academics are slowly going down, and going away...

I'm taking this class for fun, actually. I already filled up my Social Science distribution requirement a long time ago, but I've always been interested in psychology and I wanted to take this course since it's such a popular course at Northwestern. I'm also taking it to prove to myself that I do belong at NU academically... and not just as a music student. It's just so hard to study nowadays because I have my complete focus on music now, and I spend a lot of time working now. In high school, my focus on both academics and piano was pretty even, I would say. 

I'm just feeling a bit down about it especially because this is mainly a freshman course. Out of about 300 students, I did below average, which was an 82% after the curve. I was also one of the very last people to finish the exam last Monday. Getting bad grades on tests are also something I'm not used to, especially since I was a salutatorian of my high school and I've always had straight A's growing up. I don't know why I even care so much about my psych grade when it's not even going to matter to me and getting into grad school anyway. haha. 

Okay, enough about the past. I gotta learn to move on and suck it up, and be better prepared for the next one now that I'm back on track academically. 

LET'S DO THIS

It was for Intro to Psych. When people were explaining to me how difficult my professor's tests were, they really were not kidding.... I knew I didn't do so well, but I actually got a grade worse than I had imagined.  

I ended up getting a 75% on my midterm.... after the curve. Sigh. 

I still have two more midterms left. And I know it's not going to get any easier for me. The next midterm will be one that I have to make-up because I'll be in NYC during that time. And the final midterm (which is technically our final exam) is on the day after my birthday.... lovely. 

I know many people at Northwestern can just study a few days before the midterm and do relatively fine, but since I'm so rusty at studying, I need to start way earlier. And I'm so used to taking exams where I just had to memorize facts, but I'd say more than 3/4's of the questions were all application-based, which is what I struggle with the most. Of course, college exams would be so different from high school ones. I can't believe it's been more than three years since my last scantron, multiple-choice exam. I've always been pretty good about tests growing up in school, but it's so weird that now that I'm focusing on piano only now, my academics are slowly going down, and going away...

I'm taking this class for fun, actually. I already filled up my Social Science distribution requirement a long time ago, but I've always been interested in psychology and I wanted to take this course since it's such a popular course at Northwestern. I'm also taking it to prove to myself that I do belong at NU academically... and not just as a music student. It's just so hard to study nowadays because I have my complete focus on music now, and I spend a lot of time working now. In high school, my focus on both academics and piano was pretty even, I would say. 

I'm just feeling a bit down about it especially because this is mainly a freshman course. Out of about 300 students, I did below average, which was an 82% after the curve. I was also one of the very last people to finish the exam last Monday. Getting bad grades on tests are also something I'm not used to, especially since I was a salutatorian of my high school and I've always had straight A's growing up. I don't know why I even care so much about my psych grade when it's not even going to matter to me and getting into grad school anyway. haha. 

Okay, enough about the past. I gotta learn to move on and suck it up, and be better prepared for the next one now that I'm back on track academically. 

LET'S DO THIS