First One Semester Of My College Year

My first day of college at Thomas Nelson Community College I was so nervous, being in a new school where I don’t know anybody was kind of frightening. I thought I would feel the same way about college as I did for high school. In high school, all my teachers prepared me the hard way to prepare for college and what to expect. My goal is to finish out 2 years at Thomas Nelson Community College and transfer to a four-year college to continue my goal in life to become a Registered Nurse (RN). When I arrived at Thomas Nelson I was very nervous because, so many thoughts went through my head to say as if what if I can’t handle it or what if I’m not smart enough. It was just a lot of pressure that I put on myself until I got a better understanding of everything because it’s a lot I needed to improve as in school. I was excited to be realizing a lifelong dream, but I was also scared.

During my first semester at Touro College, I took a course on the History and Philosophy of Education and Special Education. Throughout this course, I was introduced to many philosophers and their theories, which helped me to develop a personal educational philosophy that I will implement into my own future classrooms. In our very first class session, we examined the word ‘education’. Education derives from two Latin roots, educare: to bring up, to train, to teach, and educere: to lead forth, to draw forth, to guide. In the world of education today, a child’s success in school is primarily dependant on his or her ability to pass standardized tests; this embodies the concept of educare. Knowledge is passed down from the teacher to the

If you’re reading this, you have chosen Schulich as home for your undergraduate career. Congratulations! Schulich may have been your dream school or you might have made a tough decision amongst the other top business schools in Ontario. If you’re still wondering whether you made the right decision or not, stop. Class of 2019, you won’t regret this!

Whenever you are doing something in life, you are expanding your knowledge. Whether it may be in a classroom, work environment, or at home; you are always learning something. You could be learning about a specific subject, skills for your job, and learning about yourself. The best way to learn about yourself and your skill set is to continually doing a task many different ways. While in college, we are exposed to many things that may take us out of our comfort zone and for us to learn from that experience.

During the semester in college, I have noticed that when I am overloaded with projects from my classes, I get stressed. At first, I just feel exhausted and anxious, but the problem is when I feel that way, my body begins reacting in a negative way. I get nauseas, stomach pain, and headaches and sometimes I feel dizzy. I think I get those symptoms because my body needs to release the stress somehow and is letting me know by giving me those discomforts. In order for me to feel better, I exercise and I relax at least a little bit.

My first college experience was at 18 years old, a young 18 I turned 18 in May and moved out of state to attend a small private college in Indiana in August that same year. Went I graduated college I thought I was prepared and had all the tools I would need to succeed in college. In high school I did everything (or so I though) I took advanced placement classes, I had a after school job, I was dedicated and serious about my classroom. My first week of classes, I felt great, I thought I’ve got this no problem. Boy was I wrong. I began to struggle just a few week into classes and continued to struggle consistently throughout the year. Not just academically, but emotionally too. I was away from home for the first time, I moved to a new state and new city not knowing anyone for having the support I needed. After my barely scraping by my first year of college, I decided to move home and go to Ohio State. Thing did not really improve academically for me there and after 2 semesters I dropped out. At this point I was married and living on our own, I needed to work. I put my college education on hold for 11 years. During this time, I got a job as a receptionist in an office and worked there for 4 years until I was laid off. I few weeks later, I receive another receptionist job which lead to my career in Project Management. I worked as a project manager for 5 years, but still aspired to go back to college. However, having 3 kids, a husband, dog, house, and a laundry list of other

This is my fifth semester at RCC. I am majoring in Marketing. With my major I can lead towards advertising, promotions, marketing manager, marketer analyst, or sales managers. There’s other options but I am not really interested in them. For my major, I will be setting sales goals, analyzing data, generating interest in products, and promoting those products. According to Bureau of Labor Statistics, Advertising, Promotions, and Marketing Managers has increased in jobs by nine percent. Which is great for me because that’s faster than average. All you need is a Bachelor’s Degree towards Advertising, Journalism, or Market Research. I want to get my A.A. in Marketing to get into Cal State Long Beach, San Diego State University, University of Stanford, or UC Berkeley. I’m going to apply for more schools but those are the top ones I want to get into. There are steps required to get accepted to these schools, but first I need to finish my remaining classes at RCC and have to go through the transfer application process.

It was Tuesday, September 8th and it was the first day of college class. It was a long Labor Day weekend and on the first day I had writing on my schedule. My writing skills are not that great but I was looking forward to improve my skills. Writing was the last class of my day and I was running late. I had to rush to north quad all the way from south quad, it seemed far away because I didn’t know my way around campus. As I got there, I sat down and our teacher discusses the basics of what writing 100 would cover. I also checked out the syllabus and the first official writing assignment was due the following week. I was nervous, but I saw that it was an interview so it couldn’t be that bad. I called my mom and told her I was going to interview her for my writing class. She was excited that I asked her but not thrilled about doing some schoolwork. I emailed her 6 questions to answer and she responded the next day with the following:

If you Google the definition of community one of the options will say, “A feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals.” Now there are many different communities I could fit in with. I could have done this on the Hispanic community, the Huntsville community, or something else, but I chose the EAST community. A community that has students, teachers, mentors, friends, volunteers, and role models. East is a very large United States organization that stands for Environmental and Spatial Technology. I have been in this program for a while now back in my hometown’s high school. It mostly consist of students trying to be able to stand out in the workforce when they get out of school. They learn new abilities like ArcGIS, 3D printing, Photoshop, basic medical training, and other occupations. This program has been up since 1996. I joined it my first year of freshmen year. I have meet so many interesting people, and learned so many new things just by being part of the program. People all over have been changed by EAST one way or another. People like Ryan DuChanois who started his path as a civic engineer because of EAST. This is a community that has stereotypes, problems, goals, and eye opening opportunities for anybody and everybody.

As the first semester of my college career comes to a close, I cannot think of a more beneficial class for me to have taken than this university seminar. I learned a lot about a variety of different relationships and the class definitely put a new perspective on how I saw romantic, familial, and platonic relationships. I am and always will be experiencing these relationships all throughout my life, and learning more about them now will help me understand how to approach them and keep the relationship strong and healthy in the future.

Washburn is a small but unique campus that is full of many different things that involve the student body. My experience the first day of campus was a life experience that consisted of me getting lost at first, trying to get to my classes. Then also, I got to meet new people that I liked and we had common interests between us. Next, during class I was listening to my professors go over the syllabus and how the class was going to go for the rest of the semester. At moments, there were times that I felt nervous to talk in front of class that day because of the environment of other people having all their eyes on me and listening to what I had to say. Towards the end of my classes, it was interesting to see the different things on campus which grabbed my attention. As my last class ended for the day and we were dismissed to leave, it felt like pressure within me was released off my body.

For many of us our anticipation of what the first day of college should be is less or more of what is expected considering that some of us have never been to college or are returning to college. The feelings that we have not only are similar to most but, are very surreal to a lot and can be overwhelming. Being that I am 42 years old, going back to school to finally accomplish something with meaning had me excited yet, questioning whether this was for me. To be on campus with the majority of the students half my age unfortunately made me feel vulnerable and old. I knew going back, there would be many changes especially with today’s technology and new updated curriculums. The feeling that you want to be ready for whatever comes your way was by far augmented and overtaking. Nevertheless, if goals and ambitions is what gives you the drive to better yourself no matter what age, the outcome will supersede any ill feeling you had in the beginning. A glimpse of my first day merely covers the surface of what I felt and experienced going back to school after twenty some years.

As a little kid, I always loved counting down the years to certain events. Some of those would be; high school, getting my license, turning sixteen and eighteen, or even graduating high school. They always seemed so far away and out of reach, but they were upon me, even when I wasn’t ready. It seems like just yesterday, I was out on the playground enjoying recess and making up games like, little house on the prairie with my friends. Most people say high school goes by fast, and I believed them, but not to this extent.

The first semester of my college is almost end, I felt confused and helpless when the class begin, there were all kinds of tasks that need me to do at the short time, my life was in a mass and I was just busy with keeping myself don’t left behind the class. At first, I felt so depressed about my expression in university because everything is so strange for me, while during this semester, with the help of people around me, I gradually get used to the new study life and feel more confident for the next semester. Thanks to the WPC101 class that helps me a lot on knowing what the business college need me to do.

Upon entering the course I really didn’t know what to expect. This is my first year as a college student, so I was hoping for a smooth first semester. I planned out this semester thoroughly as well as for the following two years. I was skeptical about the course at the beginning, because a few of the individuals that I’ve met mentioned that either the assignments took up too much of their time or their professors wasn’t giving them the right amount of information to work with in the course. Hopefully, with the right professor to guide me through the semester it won’t be as tough. Throughout the semester, the topics that I found most important were true colors, financial literacy, and the Conley Readiness Index. These topics, enhanced my knowledge to grow as a student as well as in my own personal life. Throughout the semester I absorbed numerous information about how to overcome challenges that I might be faced with future courses. Cornerstone has guided me through inconvenient times where I truly believed that I couldn’t get through on my own. It assisted me to always maintain my plan for the next semester and for the next year. The GPS assignment permitted me to be more involved with the student life at FSW. The assignment benefited me in every category when it came to figuring out how I can use time management for the events that I could attend when I did not have class at the same time. I became a more studious student who engrossed themself into more books and studying for the majority of my courses.