What I Have Learned This Semester

This semester I took Chemistry and learned it was hard. This may pursue me to change my major because studying to be a doctor involves a lot of chemistry.  I don't have too bad of a grade in there and even got an A on the first exam.  However, I had to work hard and study to get that A.  Once I get it I guess it's not too bad, but understanding it at first takes some time. This could be a good thing, though, because I was already considering a major change.  Perhaps this is my sign.

The major I was thinking about changing to is an engineer.  That will use a lot of science too, but not nearly as much as someone wanting to become a doctor.  Calculus 2 was hard for me this semester, but I got the hang of it.  I got an A+ on the last 2 exams.  A lot of math is involved in being an engineer, so maybe that is the path I should go.  I don't even mind math that much when I understand it.  I ended up learning a lot in calculus 2.  I learned stuff I should have even learned in calculus 1.  I took that in high school, though, so it wasn't as strict as a college class may be about math.  In calculus 2 I had to learn how to memorize the formulas for the test.  Our teacher didn't like to call it memorizing, though.  He said we needed to know the formulas to the point where we understood them.  If we just memorized them, we would soon forget them.  This was hard for me because my high school teacher let us put the formulas on an index card for the tests. So I guess I could also say I learned to know formulas and how to prove that they were true.