So long, Farwell

After spending four amazing weeks in the bridge program, I am sad to be leaving. I learned so much and I have met some really great people here. I am glad I had the opportunity to be in the bridge program and I think it has prepared me well for the upcoming fall semester. After reading my book, making blog posts, and writing reading responses every day, it has put me into a working mode that will benefit me greatly for the school year. I can only imagine what the actual school year is going to be li. I know that I am going to meet a ton of great people and experience some amazing things.

I think that the only part about bridge that I did not enjoy was math. I do love math and its one of my greatest academic strengths, but its not possible to enjoy math when your teacher makes it torture. My teacher, who I will not name for security reasons, was possibly, and probably is, the worst math teacher I have ever had. Even my 9^th grade math teacher, who was almost 70 years old and couldn’t hear anyone from more than 10 feet away, was better. I felt like the course work was a joke, and that a seven grader could easily complete the problems that we had. I don’t think that the math course helped me get a sense for what math I will actually be doing in the upcoming years. We were doing simple algebra, and the last time I checked, algebra is an introduction class for high school students.

My favorite part about the bridge program was the English course. I greatly enjoy all of what we did, and reading the book was really enjoyable. It was great how we went to museums and were exposed to a lot of art, which I never really thought I would see. We got to write about it and study it, and it was very enjoyable. Creating blog posts and reading everyday helped a lot too. Each day I was able to improve my reading and writing in some way or form, and I am glad to be making progress in that area. If it wasn’t for the great teachers I had, I wouldn’t have enjoyed the course at all. So, I would just like to say, THANK YOU.

-Reed