Reflections on College

Here I am, typing away on a computer on a nice Sunday evening, when I know I should be studing because I have 3 tests next week in chem, calculus, and physics. I can always study later tonight. Or maybe tomorrow night. Or even Tuesday, after all, my first exams are on Wednesday. Hurray, Procrastination!!!!*

*Neither this author, nor any of the other EVS bloggers offically endorse or condone procrastination. Procrastination leads to you shooting yourself in the foot, in the form of pulling all-nighters to finish homework or cram for exams. I'm thankful that I havn't had to stay up past 12:30 to finish anything this year.

College is tough, no questioning that. My course load this semester is Chem 104 and 105, Physics 211, Math 231, and GE 101 (a engineering drawing and modeling class), and I have managed to maintain decent grades (at least a B).
Here how everything pans out:
Calculus: seems relatively straightforward.
Physics: Again, straighforward to me.
Chemistry: I have had it to the last straw with these organic compounds! Naming them, easy. Remembering exactly how each compound reacts with what to form what, that's where I'm having issues.
At least they all have practice exams I can do.

On civil engineering:
Civil engineering here isn't that bad for the first year. Pretty much all you take are the basic math and science courses: Chem 1, Chem 2, the Calculus sequence, Physics 211, and GE 101 (as described above). One advantage is that isn't really a technical class (unlike our friends at ECE.) There is, however, CEE 198 that you take first semester. It's nothing really (0 credit hours), just a bunch of professors in the department talking about the profession in general, and the many specialties students can choose, beginning junior year. The availible specialties are Construction Management, Environmental Engineering, Structual Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Geotechnical (soil) Engineering, and Hydrosystems (water).
UPDATE: According to the department, CEE 198 is being overhauled, effective this fall. It will be 1 credit hour. In case any incoming students read this.

These are my reflections and observations so far.