Math 125 was by far the most difficult and time consuming class I took first quarter. People had warned me that STEM classes at UW were hard, but it was a different thing experiencing it for myself. At the beginning I was keeping up okay because I had already learned some of it in high school, but as soon as we started learning things I didn't already know, I began struggling. On the first midterm I was exactly at average, 68%. The second midterm I took I improved just a little bit and got 70%. I was really disappointed by how I performed on both tests because in high school I was really good at math and now I could barely reach average. It was really a wake up call for me that maybe I needed to lower my expectations of what my GPA would be in college. This class overall was very stressful, but at least I learned a lot.