C Entering College

Once you reach college, you will find that getting good grades requires a different approach than it ever has before. You will not have as many reminders, and in many ways, you will find that much more is expected of you. Nevertheless, do not be intimidated by the warnings of high school teachers or your parent, college is not another world of impossible deadlines or monstrous piles of work.

During fall 2015 I worked full time in construction. I took 4 classes, 2 at Metropolitan State University of Denver, 1 at Front Range CC Boulder & 1 at Front Range CC Westminster. I would drive from Westminster to Denver, then from Denver to Longmont. I could not handle the load. I tried to save all my classes but only saved two. Between work, traffic, and school, I set myself up for disaster and failed. I dropped the class`s last minute.

The quizzes were a huge part of my grade, and I didn’t retake them. I was so close to 60% to a D, I stressed out for nothing. My grade was still an F, and in the final i did horrible. I didn’t pass the class and i had to accepted it. I failed and I couldn't do nothing about it. I went to my counselor to ask her if she could change my class to another teacher because i was having difficulty with my teacher. My teacher was the only teacher that would to a quiz every friday. I explained to my counselor and i even begged her to change my schedule. But, it didn’t work the counselor asked me if i retook the quizzes and well i told her no. So, she told me that she wasn’t gonna change my schedule because i didn’t “tried” to raise my grade. At first, i got a mad at the counselor for refusing to change my teacher. But, then after I realize that it was my fault because I never did my quiz corrections and i never signed up for retaking a quiz. After, the semester ended I received my report card for my final grades, and I got really upset because all my classes were A’s except my Algebra II was an F. I didn't get my 5 credits, so now I’m missing 5

Going to college not only helps you but also the individuals around you. A person works hard to make sure that their application is presentable to the college. Angel B. Perez tells us that we should learn to fail, if we want to go to college. This comes as a shock to many people however, he is correct. As a student we assume that colleges look for an “A+” on a transcript rather than a “B-”. Though they do not. In other words, you don’t have to have 4.0 gpa to get into college.

From the time I was in about fourth or fifth grade I began to dislike certain subjects in school. I loathed everything about writing assignments. I didn’t write at home before that the thought of writing for myself never really occurred to me. I hated the deadlines the length requirements and I just tried to get them done and had no intention of writing well because I told myself I was a bad writer. I have never really known whether or not I truly am a bad writer. I continued these habits of just writing something down to get a decent grade all throughout school. I usually got an okay grade because I followed the prompt closely and did the minimum amount of work for the paper. I didn’t start the assignments until either the night before it was due. As I got older I would type the paper on my phone in school that day then print it off in the library moments before class. I continued writing in that awful ritual of complacency until the end of 11th grade. We had to write a paper on The Great Gatsby a book that I never read. I read couple of notes on the internet and then wrote the paper and never reread it or edited it all. I did my usual routine and followed the prompt and turned my paper in. When I got my paper back I was shocked to find out I didn’t get even a half decent grade I was given a zero. I went to my teacher after class to speak with him about the grade and he told me I got the grade that I deserved. He said I was lazy and never tried to truly work in

In the Fall quarter of 2014 at pierce I was still being introduced to this style of learning and the school setting of Pierce College which was a pretty big turnaround for me seeing as my only previous schooling had been public high school. Along with my unfamiliarness with my academic surroundings I was also beginning my first job and had weekly meetings with a counselor.Needless to say, i put too much on my own plate and wasn't able to keep up with it as much as i had hoped to. I had been visiting a counselor to get help on some issues i had been facing with an Anxiety disorder along with issues in my home life ,which had been keeping me from focusing on many tasks. The anxiety was a major issue for me during fall and winter quarter but has since then improved and taken a back seat and is much less of an issue now. I know that none of these are an excuse for my poor grades but it was a heavy influence on how i handled

I admit, I had a very challenging time last semester, and as a result my grades suffered. I don’t mean to make excuses for my poor performance in school but I would like to explain my circumstance. During my second semester of college I treated my classes like I did in high school thinking I could coast by and pass my classes, but when I noticed how poorly I was doing in class everything was already headed downhill. I started the second

That semester I had to write a ten page paper in two days because my coworker was out and I had nobody to take my place; I worked two weeks in a row without days off. Another of my worst experiences occurred in the English 364 class because the class materials were unavailable ahead of time, so it was a rush to complete assignments when they were due. I misinterpreted the instructions and chose a person that was irrelevant to the class. I was unable to redo the assignment because I never received a grade for it until week seven. In week seven I was busy working on the final project and lacked opportunity or time to redo the assignment and it cost me my grade and dropped my

My passion for science became prominent in my freshman year of high school. That year, I was introduced to Pre-AP Biology, and I enjoyed it beyond measure. We learned about living beings and how they worked from the most general of ecosystems they lived in all the way down to the insides of their cells. My teacher made sure to push our limits of what we could learn, and although many people despised it because of this, it helped my knowledge of science grow stronger. One of the most memorable moments from that class was when we dissected a pig. Although most dissections during high school just end with a mangled pig and little to no knowledge from the encounter, we went through each and every organ and made sure we knew the function and relative

Science has always been one of my favorite subjects, an always found myself fascinated by it. In elementary school, while most of my classmates dreaded going to school, I always looked forward to it. Everyday I would make sure to get to school early, because I just couldn’t wait to see what new things we would learn each day. My eagerness to learn hasn’t changed as I have gotten older. Although attending Harper College has allowed me to obtain my associate's degree, I am now ready to move on and work towards earning my bachelor's degree in Speech and Hearing Science.

For as long as I can remember math and science classes fascinated me to no end. Once I started wielding science as a tool to understand life, a whole new world opened up. There is nothing more satisfying

I have always been interested in science. As a child, I would perform little experiments by freezing my dinosaurs in a water bottle filled with water. My family was always very supportive of me and my scientific pursuits. Because of this, my grandmother gave me a children’s science experiment book. I enjoyed making sugar crystals and a substance called oobleck that was similar to a solid and a liquid. When I was a little older, my parents even bought me a science experiment kit, and I was ecstatic. But, my enthusiasm did not end there. I was so enthusiastic about science that when I had to pick

From a young age, I have always enjoyed the outdoors. I loved dirt, rocks, and stick. I enjoyed my science classes in elementary school. I enjoyed the problem solving aspect of science. When I got to middle school, science courses became more lecture based and less about hands on experimenting. By the time I got to high school, I was uninterested in science. I took physics in 9th grade and hated it. After that, I assumed that I was not good at science. I took the science classes I needed to take to graduate and did not give it much thought. I did not really become interested in science again until this summer.

Science has and always will play a constant important role in my daily life, maybe more so than others. Science for me has not always been my strong subject in school and I very easily tend to get intimidated. But when I look at my daily life and realize how much science plays a role in it, I cannot help but smile. Science is not at all bad, it has allowed me to do many things every day, even if I do not take the time to stop and think about it, it is there. From the way the microwave heats up the water for my coffee every morning or the way my body digests the food I eat every meal and makes

Since I was little, I had love for science. It is the subject that interest me because there’s too many interesting topics. Science make us wonder how things work and how the world was made. In science there 's too many hypotheses that can be made into proved theories. Now that I’m in college, it has only reassured to me that I do love science. I’m taking my Biology courses and they are so intriguing to me. One of my classes that I’m really enjoying right now is Biological evolution.