I was in my economics class one day with Dr. Okunade and as usual he bragged about his children, which is fine. It motivates me even more to do better in school. He mentioned a story of his younger son who is a pre-med going to a professor at 7:30 in the morning to talk to him. Ten minutes later, fifteen other students showed to talk with the professor. Dr. Okunade was getting the point across that this university (Illinois I assume) is highly competitive and high standard school because students care what they get. Yet at the University of Memphis, almost no one visits him during his office hours. As a result, I don't necessarily go to my microeconomics professor, but I do go to Dr. Camp, my intro-civil prof., daily to ask questions and talk.
While many students are enjoying the fall break away from school, you could find me at 8:oo am on Monday in the engineering building doing research. Yes, I said it. A freshman is doing research. I encourage everyone who reads this blog to get more involved in the area they are getting majored in. Do you know why? It's basically universal that I want to attend the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for graduate school (quick note: Illinois is considered top three civil engineering program in the world.). The importance is that the professor I am doing research for just got his Ph. D from there. Connections! Can't live without them. Plus I'm my name gets put on the paper when published and I enjoy learning about geotechnical engineering.
Also, I talk to Dr. Camp often. He is my civil engineering intro professor. He is kind and very helpful. Today, Tuesday October 16 I was at school again early in the morning. I went to ask Dr. Camp a couple of questions about concrete but ended staying an hour and a half talking about everything including: politics, music, graduate school and jobs, history, and the book he was reading. In the end when I left, I was apologizing for taking up so much of his time. But he immediately replied that he was sorry for wasting my time. I think he speaks for all the professors at this university. Students don't go and meet their professors out of class.
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I actually did this today because I needed to ask my Biology adviser about an optional class I may be taking next semester. Definitely a good idea!
This has nothing to do with your blog post, but may I ask what happened to your eyebrows ? I'm not trying to be rude, but that must have sucked if they got burned off or something =(. I burned some of my eyebrows off one time when I was lighting a grill to barbecue some stuff with my dad for a cookout.
I think my friends pulled a prank on me when i was asleep!
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