Essay On Freshman Fall

The main two ways that I believe that I have grown this year are athletically and academically. Both have helped me to better understand what I might want to do when I grow up. 8th grade just happened to be my very first year ever playing an organized sport. I also made starter for all but one game that season. On the academic side, my 8th grade year was one of my worst school years ever. 9th grade however, had me turning over a new leaf of academic excellence.

2016, the year of change. My life suddenly turned upside down, inside out, and thrown all around. Over the whole year, I went through a multitude of events which helped me define myself.

What I learned in the documentary called “The First Year” is the aspects of each teacher’s way they deal a classroom with students as first-timers. Especially when coming across to many challenges and the struggle they had during their first time ever as educators. Watching what lengths they will go to for the benefit of the students is admirable. The teachers who are into five separate schools in the Los Angeles area are known to be George Acosta who teaches English as a second language, Joy Kraft-Watts teaches high school history, Genevieve Debose teaches middle school language arts and social studies, Maurice Rabb teaches kindergarten, Nate Monley teaches fifth-grade bilingual education, and Andrew Glass teaches elementary special education.

We would like to congratulate your office on the first successful year of operating and maintaining Ryerson’s Student Learning Centre. When the announcement was made that Ryerson would be adding this state of the art facility to our campus we as students were ecstatic to experience a learning space which was truly unique. Although the Student Learning Centre has been extremely beneficial to all students Ryerson Students this far, we believe the space has not been used to its full potential.

For the 2016 Fall Semester, I am taking 16 credit hours. My classes include Ecology, Microbiology, Multicultural English, Research and Design in Psychology, and Physiological Psychology. The classes I am expecting to take during Spring 2017 are Physical Education, Cell Biology, Social Psychology, Research Analysis in Psychology, and a Literature course. I am involved in an experiment this Fall semester in the Psychopharmacology lab and will remain involved throughout the Spring. In the Fall and some of the Spring, we will be administering different treatments to rodent groups and observe the effects. For most of the Spring semester, I will be helping with the data analysis. Every week for an hour, I volunteer at the East Athens Tutorial Center,

I have ensured that all the SMART goal requirements are met. My goal is specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and timely (Ellis, Toft & Dawsom, 2015, p. 74). To achieve this goal I plan on attending every class. This will help me stay focused on course material while also keeping me up to date on assignments, quizzes, midterms and final examinations. I will also participate and focus in class, complete all assignments on time, read the textbook, and study for all examinations. This will help me become a better student and thus, will help me achieve my goal.

The fall semester was a great semester for me. Academically I have to seen it in my studies by my semester GPA of 3.73 accomplishing making the Dean's List. Also, I have enjoyed my work in the community by volunteering for a tutorial program at the local church. Over the course of the semester I have gathered over 50 volunteer hours serving my school, and the local community. The worst part of the semester is not finals week but the week after finals. Sitting at home after finals waiting for your professors to put in your grades is the most nerve-wracking, stressful thing about college. Every hour I kept refreshing the grade book hoping for good news as my professor slowly put their grades in one after another I slowly breathe a sigh of relief

During my junior year, I worked at my first job, studied for the ACT, dealt with taking multiple IB classes for the first time, and gained more responsibilities outside of school. This was very difficult, but I pushed myself and didn’t make excuses.

During the Fall semester at Hunter College I understood the idiom of biting off more than I can chew. I had a part time job in an animal hospital and a full time student with two lab class (Biology 2 and Chemistry 2) and English 2. Quickly I realized that I was struggling academically and had too much on my plate to seek out help. This did not stop me I tried my best and never gave up during the semester and remained positive. I definitely learned my lesson and took an easier load for the spring semester as well as deciding to transfer for the upcoming fall semester.

I am applying for a grade change for Fall Semester 2015. This semester my grandfather suffered many health problems and was in home hospice starting two weeks into the semester. He was unable to eat himself and was on a strict diet, and other normal functions he was unable to do himself and needed either myself or my mother/ grandmother to help him with.

My primary academic smart goal was to at least get a 3.0 GPA or higher GPA by the end of STP. I have successfully achieved that by creating a S.M.A.R.T., which is a goal that is Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and Time-Bound. During the first and second week of EDCP, I learned how to create a S.M.A.R.T. goal and it helped me to put mini tasks in place to make sure that I was able to obtain my ending goal.

The last semester of high school is always the most grueling 5 months of a teenager’s life. We are so anxious to graduate and get out of high school as soon as possible because the want for freedom and a different schedule/routine. Who wouldn’t be tired of waking up at 6:30 every morning and rushing to make it to class on time at 7:10? It gets old but the last semester seemed to be significantly harder than past semesters. I had one thing in my mind and it was to maintain my 3.5 GPA to meet my parent’s academic expectations. This whole semester was a very gritty experience and developed me into the person I am today because of the focus I learned to persevere. Grit is a very good quality to have especially when it comes to tough situations.

What you see before you are my final grades from the past two semesters. While I know you 're concerned with the letters and numbers, rest assure that these are about as insightful as an Instagram photo. My first semester of freshman year, for the most part, went by without much of a hiccup. I was able to coast by with the same mindset towards learning I carried in high school, and I finished with a 3.30 GPA. Afterward, my second semester was what lead me to buckle down. I realized that I would need to dedicate my time outside of the classroom to studying and comprehending the material. My classes were going to become harder, each assignment more crucial, and my time more valuable. Thus, about midway through the semester, I was building better habits with studying and learning in general. Keep in mind that at this point; I was still adapting to the routine of a college curriculum. Even though I adopted a serious attitude towards each of my classes, there was still something working against my favor. Looking back now, I realize that I had been enrolled in more credit hours than, perhaps, what I could handle. The increase was only one extra credit hour (16 to 17) which came from a chemistry lab that I needed to take as a science. But, considering that I went from taking all 100 level classes to 200 level classes, including a 300 level class, the extra credit hour was enough to stretch my workload. Plus, we had a lab report due almost every week, which is more than what you

From the beginning of the semester until now, I believe I have made progress with the goals I considered for the midterm exam. Those goals were staying turned out, fully extending the working leg to the back, and carrying the working leg en l’ air at the same height. In addition to these three aspects, new challenges were discovered over the current ones. The new challenges have allowed myself to set new goals for the upcoming semester of Spring 2018.

As an individual who has encountered many challenges with the adjustment to college, I am proud to conclude that I have finished my first semester of college with complete success. The first semester of college is one of the critical points for freshmen students because you truly learn more about yourself and the skills you are lacking. My experience from last semester was fun yet difficult and I realize that there are many changes that needs to occur in order for improvement and growth. The objective of this semester is to not only to excel as a student, however as an individual as well. Spring semester I will become more organized, improve my time management skills, and improve my work ethic skills.