Chapter 1: background info, recapping the first semester

Don’t think of this as a blog, think of this simply as the adventures I go through at the beautiful campus of Los Angeles Harbor College. I will be retelling the things I see, encounter and have to go through daily.

 There’s an old saying about students that attend a Junior College: “There is a reason they are there.”

I’ll begin by saying I came to this wonderful Junior College via Cal State Dominguez Hills. Not in a million years did I think I would be attending Harbor College... but here I am.

 For those unfamiliar with the school, it is located in Wilmington right beside the 110 freeway. Recent construction has improved the campus but the students that go there are as bizarre as before.

 Unfortunately I am just now starting to compile events so we are without most of the history from the previous semester... but here are some of the highlights:

• I arrive on the first day of school with no classes, or a clue to what I am in for. I walk into classes with 20 more students than seats available. Eventually get two add slips and I am up to an incredible 6 units (add slips are given to students looking to add the class because they weren’t enrolled in it previously. The way teachers decide to add people to a class is by drawing names out of a hat... yeah I know real original)
• After enrolling in 15 units (somehow I managed to get 4 classes plus soccer making 5) I settled into my classes. It was quite funny how the classes that previously had 20 students over full capacity dropped to 20 below full capacity. Now what made this happen? Was school too difficult or was it due to financial reasons? I’ll let you decide what financial exactly means if you catch my drift.      
• The commonly used nickname for Harbor College, “Harbor High” soon proved itself due to the simplicity of school. I breezed through the first couple months and then hit an impasse as I became complacent and my grade in health of all classes began to suffer... or did it? As soon as finals rolled around I was sure I would end up with 2 As a B and most likely a C, yes a C, in health. Before I go on, remember at Harbor College, finals are just chapter tests. Anyways, I calculated my grade just as I had done in high school and saw it would be a 78 and had to ace the final to receive a B in Health. The final turned out to be 25 questions and I seemed to do well. Weeks later I went online to look at my grades and low and behold... an A in health. Don’t ask me how that happened I am still wondering too.  

The semester ended with me getting grades I did not expect to earn but oh well that’s what happens. And for those who think this blog is starting slow and might not be eventful, I assure you it will pick up ...