College Reflection

It has been a difficult journey for my first year at Western to where I understood that I will lose my financial aid and my scholarship after spring term. In fall term I thought that I would start a new lifestyle where I can get away from my families issues. My family has been my priority with school since the outcome of my parent’s separation and the financial struggle that my father had to face. However, the issues my family had has followed me to school where it took me away from my school work. I have failed most of my classes fall term and I knew that I can’t afford another mistake. I made it a goal to make sure that I don’t make the same mistake that I did for fall term. I passed most of my classes except for math because of how I wouldn’t asked the professor for of

In life, there are always failures of everything. As college students, we are experiencing endless stress, anxiety and fear failure. I remembered back in my sophomore year, I enroll in this accounting 201 class for my major’s requirement. The first week of class is simple, but after the third and fourth week, it gets harder and harder. There are many business concepts and words that are new to me. It is really hard to catch up in the class, sadly I have failed the first exam. I feel so blue. After that, I go to the professor’s office in purpose to ask him for advises of how to improve in the class. Then he advises me to drop the class because his materials in the class are straightforward and there is nothing he can do to help. It breaks my heart, after hearing him says that.

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 failed English 1303, and I am so disappointed. I began college with a positive attitude. I knew I struggled with focusing in high school, so I had an idea that college would be a whole new level of struggle stories. I know I put this on myself by hanging out with my friends so often, as well as being super unfocused. Along with these circumstances, my attitude was no help. Throughout the entire semester I felt lazy and unfocused. I didn’t even have to check my grade because I had already given up on the class. Instead of managing my time wisely I let all the deadlines slip right past me. Now I have to deal with taking English 1303 during the summer just to catch up to my class. I know this summer I will stay super focused because the feeling

Last year, I took AP Calculus BC, and it was one of the most difficult subjects I’ve ever taken. In the past, I never had to work so hard to understand math. I never really had to do homework in my math classes, because math was second nature, and I thought that Calculus would be the same. I was extremely wrong. I was positive I aced that first test, but it was a near fail. I was devastated; sure, I’ve bombed tests before, but never in math, and I considered dropping the class. I kept putting off going to see my counselor, and finally, after a couple more failed tests, my teacher pulled me aside and asked me what was going on. I told him that I wasn’t getting the materials, that I was floundering in all of information, and that I was

My previous learning experiences in high school were not near as strenuous as the learning experiences I have had so far as an undergraduate student, and I did not have to engage much effort in order to get the grades that I wanted. In my first learner autobiography, I wrote that the way I studied would most likely evolve throughout the semester, and while it has, I could have executed it much better. I now realize that I spent much of the semester stressing out and drowning in anxiety because of my self-doubt stemming from not being able to do as well in college as I did in high school and believing that I was not as smart as I once thought I was. I procrastinated studying for courses merely because I believed that the material was too difficult for me to learn. Instead of trying to evolve my learning habits like I said that I would in my first learner autobiography, I avoided doing things so that I would not have to face the failure of not grasping a certain concept. By taking the EDP 310 course and engaging in the

During my time at Patrick Henry Community College I have had many ups, downs, and in-betweens. Looking back I thank God for each one of them because I have learned and grown so much since my first day here. In addition to that, I have met wonderful people, staff and students.

My calculus teacher, Ray Chayo, was keen on ensuring his students that the knowledge we learned in his class will help us excel and dominate in our calculus courses in college. I remember the dark blotches underneath my eyes that were evident of all-nighters I pulled through in order to tackle and survive his vicious yet uncomplicated exams. On his first exam, I received a D+ because I did not comprehend the concepts. It was as though my grain of rice had fallen, like the ant, I did not capitulate to my negative thoughts of dropping this class. Instead, I chose to ask for help, so I can change my studying habit. I went to his class one hour early before the school started. From 7:00 AM to 7:45 AM, I would spend all my time asking questions and doing the problems on the whiteboard. Through this, not only did I get A’s and B’s on the other exams, but I had also learned a valuable lesson. I had begun to grow out of my personality. I am very shy when I have to interact with my teachers because I feel as though I should not be asking for help. Through interacting with my calculus teacher in high school, I had also learned to interact with my professors at CRC. Even though AP Calculus AB was difficult, but by working diligently, I had also earned myself a reward. I achieved a score of 5 on the AP Calculus AB Exam. This allowed me to skip Calculus I at CRC during my first semester of college. If I

During my journey and prior to attending College Unbound, I quickly realized that the Big 10 has always been something that I have implemented in my life but never thought about it. However, For the most part, I came to College Unbound already possessing a good sense of Self advocacy for myself and others, communication, Accountability, & collaboration.

In spring of 2014 I decided that, in order to have a successful semester, I would have to manage my time better and create a better balance between school and being my dad’s primary care provider. That spring I did the same thing I enrolled in two courses: World Since 1914 and Precalculus. This time I changed my mentality into, I’ve been through a lot and nothing can be worse than to see your best friend/dad in and out of the hospital and each time the doctors unsure of this medical mystery. Life threw yet another wrench at me and unfortunately I was unable to dodge it. That same semester I was in a similar circumstance, yet I was able to notice that things

If you ask anyone that has gone through any of our 90 master’s or doctoral programs you will hear three key words, innovation, collaboration and excellence. It’s not by chance that our graduate studies rank among the top nationwide and even international. Here is a quick fact that we hope won’t make you yawn:

I look forward to moderating the College Board workshop in English Literature next Monday in Indianapolis. I am attaching a folder of documents that I will be using during the workshop. The folder may seem a bit overwhelming. We will not get around to using the entire folder I am sure, but I put it together last summer for an institute I led in Minneapolis and, since I believe one could always use extra lesson plans, I might as well send the whole shebang. We are also limited as to the amount of paper copies we can use per registrant, so I only copied papers that I would ask you to notate or that you would want for ready reference in the future.

In my first semester of college I felt overwhelmed by course load. I wasn’t doing will in the beginning where I was not doing as great as I expected. I began to doubt myself and became frustrated on why I was having such a difficult time. However, I had great advisors Annette De La Torre and Alicia Rodriguez who listened to me but most importantly helped transition. They advised me to use the tutoring centers and how to cope with everyday stress. But they made it clear that the only person that can make change is yourself. So, I had two options either to cry and complain about how poorly I’m doing or take this as a learning experience and make change. I chose the latter and began to seek help and learned to manage time. I ended the semester strong with a 4.0 which I never achieved

Just when I thought things could get any worse in college, I finish English 1330 with an F! I have failed English 1330 because I was trying to balance 35 hours a week at work, plus be a full-time student all at once. I kept overlooking how difficult I thought it would be to balance both school and work. However, my careless attitude is what lead me to fail this course. I now have to spend more money and time to retake English 1330 because I wasn't allowing school to be my first priority. Next time when I re-take this course, I will put aside and/or lower my hours at work making me more available to be focused on my education.

I was taking four classes this semester with an unusual schedule, I had class at seven am in the morning, classes in the evening and classes during the middle of the day. The class that gave me the most trouble was biology, this was my first seven o'clock am class ever and I had to fight till the end. I received a D for this class and it hurt to receive that grade. Through out the semester I was contemplating if I should withdraw or not but something kept telling me to keep on pushing. At some point of the semester I knew that I wasn't to receive a great grade so I decided to meet with the professor and discuss my grade. This helped me out tremendously because, the professor was encouraging me and telling me that I could still do good in his final. After having this conversation with my professor, I felt a lot better about the semester and decided that everything was going to be alright. My GPA didn't go below 2.0, and technically didn't fail the class because D wasn't failing in this college but I'll say after receiving that grade I have put in more after to my studies and dedicated more time so that it wouldn't happen