So I’ve been at Holy Cross for a few months now, and I just wanted to share a few insights so far with my intro biology class.

This Intro Biology class I would say is the hardest class I have right now, there is a ton of work and various readings we have to do to stay caught up with the workload. However, my professor is very interesting and I enjoy learning about all these various cells, organelles, and systems that are involved in biology that I’ve been learning. My lab is also challenging and I enjoy some aspects a lot more over others (who ever liked taking practicals or tests in general?).

Bio is very intense overall but this all holds true to Holy Cross’s great reputation for the sciences (and other subjects). All the professors really know what they are doing, and when we get on to topics that they are researching then they turn really enthusiastic and will sometimes even go off topic to discuss a little bit about their research and go in more depth about our subjects. In all honesty though, without my AP Biology class in high school, I would probably be lost now, or doing double the amount of work I already do to be keeping up with the class, and AP bio has helped me out tremendously. What we cover in this Intro Bio class is very fast paced and a lot of material that if I didn’t have that background in AP Bio I would probably be overwhelmed by the amount of work. I’m a bit more excited for the classes that come after this because I’m really interested in the Cell Biology, Genetics, and Virology classes. I hope once we take specific classes there won’t be these kinds of broad range of topics.  Anyways, enough of this rant I just have to get moving and work harder.

To put you into prospective the type of student I was in high school: I loved AP Biology (awesome teacher) and I wouldn’t necessarily study for my tests and manage an A in the class and didn’t study for the test and I got a 5.

Intro Biology here: I’m doing a lot more reading, and work than in my AP Biology class, and I currently do not have an A.

Don’t get discouraged though, when you really want something you’ll go to far lengths to get it, and I’m not about to give up, I’m definitely going to try and bring my grades up the rest of this semester!

By the way, my other classes I’m taking are Calculus 1, my Montserrat (which I will talk about in more detail later), and Chemistry – Atoms and Molecules mainly. Calculus and Chemistry are so far very easy for me because I have a pretty strong background in them from high school and my high school teachers prepared me well for these classes. – I was told this is one of the hardest freshman year schedules you can have, in a way I feel that it’s true, but definitely manageable.