by Ghost, San Mateo
I’m going to talk about taking my first college classes. The first time I took college classes was here in the YSC (Youth Services Center aka Juvenile Hall). I was working in a normal class in school when I found out about it. I was just chilling in class when this teacher came in. He started talking about how we would have sessions in his class that we could take online through Zoom.
We were told that we were going to get college credits and normal credits in high school as well. I don’t know why I did it but I just chose to because it wasn’t like I had anything else to do while being locked up. We had three classes to choose from and we could choose one, two or all of them. It just depended on what you wanted to do.
The classes were Keys To Success, History and Psychology. Keys To Success was these things with words; I don’t even know how to explain it because I don’t really know what we worked on. I did it but I don’t know how to explain it. But it was a chill class.
The second class was History where we looked at real old times history. It was a real cool class because I learned a lot of things from around the world that I haven’t learned before.
The third class, Psychology, taught us many interesting things about the brain and how it works. I took all of the classes. Sometimes I didn’t want to show up to the classes but I had to and every time I went I learned something new. Every time I showed up to class was a good thing.
The only bad thing about one class was that this one teacher was so annoying. What I mean by annoying is that he always made me or another student read aloud the bullet points he had on his slide when we could have just read them in our heads or he could have read them. But, every single time he made someone read a different bullet point it got to a point that it was so annoying.
Beside that one thing, everything else about the topics were fine. Something cool is that our teachers were partnered up with real colleges. Ours was the CSM, College of San Mateo, and the other one was Skyline College.