The Computer Summer
This summer, my plan was to get a part-time job and earn some spending money towards one of the three colleges I was planning on going to: Florida A&M University, Tennessee State University, or Southern University. Everything was going good. I graduated in the top 15 percent of my class with a 3.45 GPA and I had some graduation money from relatives and friends. Then two weeks after I received my diploma, my parents told me that I would be attending a summer program called PREFICS for Computer Science at Tuskegee University. My parents had assumed that there would be no job openings because of the bad economy and they said that I could earn early college credits. PREFICS was a two month summer program designed for people who wanted to major in Computer Science to get a jump start on their major. In the program you took eight hours of classes: three Computer Science hours, 4 math hours, and 1 orientation hour. On the weekly schedule, however, we took Computer Science three times for three hours at a time, Pre-Calculus two times for four hours at a time, and the orientation class one time a day for an hour and a half. The worst thing about it is that the teachers said that they had to cram five months worth of work into two an
My math teacher was named Mr. D. He was an interesting teacher and he made jokes once and a while in the class. It was not like he was that hard of a teacher, but the cramming of five months of work into two and a half made work a whole lot harder. He was going over a section and a half a day and everybody can not be focused everyday in a class like that. One day in the class, after studying until 4:30 in the morning before the test, Mr. Davis came into the classroom and started teaching another section before the test. I thought that he was going to just do an overview of the section in the book, but he went into detail with it and he told us that we had to remember the formulas that he had taught that day because he was not going to say them again. On a rested mind it would have been ok, but on a tired mind, that was hard to do. Then Mr. Davis told us to clear our desks for the test. I did not do as good as I had wanted to on that test because of the new and old formulas clashing in my head. I was really mad after that point and I had just about given up in the class. Then I received word that Tennessee State University’s band practice started before the program ended. When my parents told me this, I was ecstatic because I could get out of the program. I
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