Arsenic Analysis

From this course, I have learned a lot about arsenic than I thought I would. I never knew about the diseases that arsenic can cause and how much of it is in and affects our dietary consumption, especially within food regulations worldwide. Most importantly, this class has made me become more aware of what I put in my body, concerning the amount of arsenic goes into my body. Throughout the semester, I primarily learned through the OWL assignments, the lectures, and doing some readings on my own time regarding some of the math used in class. Compared to other courses I have taken at UMass Amherst, this course is a lot of work due to the amount of assignments to complete on a weekly basis.
As a first-year college student, there has a noticeable difference between learning in a university and in high school. For a start credits mean
Once in awhile I had missed some deadlines, due to some weeks being overwhelming with assignment deadlines for the courses I took this semester, but I’ve learned to become more stringent with my time. Advice I would offer for future first-year students is #1 use the learning resources available to you/take advantage of what the library offers (tutoring, writing help, etc.) as they help you improve these strategies in the extent that you are improving studying skills and retaining information better. Secondly, I would suggest to first-year students is to set time aside to go over the new materials gone over in lecture and create a study list of important terms, concepts, and themes, along with writing down any questions in regards of clarification needed or otherwise. For this course, I generally devoted 3 hours per credit per week by working on papers, readings, OWL assignments, and completing online quizzes given to us. Sad to say, I do not work with students who work on subjects related to what we have