My Schedule in UAFS

When I was a high school student in Japan, I had class from 8:00 to until 16:00. Also, I did not have to move a lot from my home room class. I had many friends that have exactly same schedule as me. However, in college everything was different.

It was difficult for me to understand the system of college. The most difficult thing for me to understand was my schedule. First of all, I have to take at least 12 credits to be a full time student. I can choose whatever classes I want but there are requirements for the major. For example, I am a Business Administration major. I have to complete a minimum of 45 credit hours, earn a GPA of 2.50 or better overall and a grade of "C" or better in all COB (College of Business) courses and complete 9 required courses. I must do these things before my junior year to enter College of Business. Also, I cannot take any upper-level business courses before finishing these things. Like this, each student have their own schedules and have to manage their schedule by their selves.

I took 6 courses for a total of 16 credits in this semester. Moreover, I took two 8 weeks courses and four 16 weeks courses. So my first 8 weeks' schedule looked like this.

8/19/2013-10/11/2013
	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
9:00	Composition I 9:00-9:50	Intermediate Algebra 9:30-10:45	Composition I 9:00-9:50	Intermediate Algebra 9:30-10:45	Composition I 9:00-9:50
10:00	Music Appreciation 10:00-10:50		Music Appreciation 10:00-10:50		Music Appreciation 10:00-10:50
11:00	Critical Thinking and Reading 11:00-11:50	Critical Thinking and Reading 11:00-12:15	Critical Thinking and Reading 11:00-11:50	Critical Thinking and Reading 11:00-12:15	Critical Thinking and Reading 11:00-11:50
12:00
13:00
14:00		Introduction to Speech Communication 14:00-15:15		Introduction to Speech Communication 14:00-15:15
15:00
16:00		Planning for Success 16:00:16:50		Planning for Success 16:00:16:50
17:00

After 8 weeks, my schedule changed. This was little bit confusing for me because we in high school we never had schedule change in middle of the semester. However, it changed and now it looks like this.

10/14/2013-12/3/2013
	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
9:00	Composition I 9:00-9:50	Intermediate Algebra 9:30-10:45	Composition I 9:00-9:50	Intermediate Algebra 9:30-10:45	Composition I 9:00-9:50
10:00	Music Appreciation 10:00-10:50		Music Appreciation 10:00-10:50		Music Appreciation 10:00-10:50
11:00		Internship at International Office 11:00-14:00		SGA Office Hour 11:30-12:30
12:00
13:00
14:00		Introduction to Speech Communication 14:00-15:15		Introduction to Speech Communication 14:00-15:15
15:00
16:00	SGA Meeting 16:30-17:30
17:00

There are many free time. I have to manage my schedule by myself and it is not easy thing to do. I learned how important it is to manage my schedule.