My First Semester At Miami

Like transforming from a caterpillar to a butterfly, my writing style transformed from something mediocre to something quite exceptional. In high school, even when I took advanced placement English and Literature courses, I was never good at writing. My writing would lack structure, reasoning, syntax, and a well-defined thesis statement. My inadequate grades on writing assignments lowered my self-esteem, so I assumed I would never enjoy writing papers because I believed I could never improve. However, since attending a university my writing style has improved far beyond my expectation. My EN 101 course enhanced my understanding of the different ways I could approach my writing. Also, it enhanced my comprehension of outlines to complete assignments. Investing quality time into my writing made a substantial difference because I became a stronger writer. Through the late nights, constant revisions, and agonizing head traumas, I learned that my writing is truly spectacular whenever I incorporate well-defined thesis statements, provide sufficient supporting evidence, and maintain a clear focus in my assignments.

Whenever an assignment was given, I used to just write everything that I could think of, similar to a free write. After doing a free write in my scrap notebook, I would then go back and insert examples from the text to further prove my points. After taking this class, I learned that is the incorrect way to write academic papers and that the best way is to make an outline instead so that I can make sure that every point is proven, clear, accurate, and most importantly understandable. I was able to see the improvement of how outlines helped through my first essay. The essay was about picking out an image and explaining its means to the visual context and its impact on culture. My first draft I had learned that I needed to step back and see

I would describe myself as a very fast learner prior to coming to college here. I have been preparing for this step in my life ever since I was in school by participating in hard classes and being involved in my community. Keeping high A averages in my classes has given me the opportunity to become involved in national honor society and national art honor society but also granting me with the incredible trip to Blue Bonnet Girls State this past summer. I believe that involving myself in these three organizations gives me the extra drive a student needs to flourish as an aspiring student to UT Austin. I grew up in a good home as a child and my parents both pushed me to the best of my ability that thankfully got me accepted into this amazing university.

During my English courses throughout high school, I learned many things from writing simple journals, research papers, and a single term paper. During high school, I was laid back and procrastinated for much of my work. During the latter part of high school when I wrote my term paper my senior year, I found out that working a little every night writing a few paragraphs helped me out greatly. I was not just throwing something together just to get the grade and the paper finished. I spent time on the paper and

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

From the article “How to Make It in College, Now That You’re Here,” the writer Brain O’keeney mentioned at the end of it, “Going to colleges can be an exciting time. You do learn. And when you learn things, the world becomes a more interesting place” (690). Deciding in learning things or understanding points sometimes are dreary, but there are lots of things and ways that radically refreshed it and make it interesting for us. Learning supplies people understanding processes, and that can be existing and gratifying for them.

Throughout English 101, I learned that the following the writing process was imperative. Before taking this class, I use to always skip the pre-writing step considering that it is just an easy and unnecessary step. Consequently, I struggled to figure how to start writing, and most importantly I struggled to figure out the main point while writing the draft. And then I finish the first draft close to the deadline that I do not have time to read it not to mention revising. It was after I started this class that learned that pre-writing is vital, and requires time and attention as it holds the base of the whole writing. My professor used different analogies such as blueprint for building and map for navigation to explain the importance. It really speeded up my writing after I started to utilize it. I have learned outlining before, but part of the pre-writing that I was fortunate enough to learning in English 101 is the writing triangle. Even before outlining, the topic, purpose, and audience of the

In the Fall of 2013 I decided not to retune to college. I started college in the Fall of 2008 after high school graduation. Many things made my college career difficult, but I had always found a way to make things work. Until I decided I needed a year off to get things done in my life. Many factors played into my decision to take a year off of school; class schedule options, getting married, and my business, were the three major reasons that pushed me to take a year off. I started my college career at UW-River Falls.

I believe the outline is one of my writing strengths. Before the course, I would make mental outlines. During this course, I started to write down my outlines to keep me on target and in focus. In addition to composing an outline, I have increased my free writing time. After free writing, I revise the information to fit the assignment or ensure alignment with the main points. I have saved time in writing down my outline by using each bullet point as my own feedback and critique for material appropriateness.

Learning changes as we mature. Professor Lobdell explains how to understand where you are within your learning journey to get the most out of your efforts. Facts or rote memorization vs Conceptual conditioning or understanding the details of a

When I started Unity High School I had a certain idea that I was not going to like the school but overall its a great school. My thought on how high school was going to be like was crowded people having a lot of school pride. How i thought to get through my first year in Unity High School was by doing all of my work being kind to others participating in class and following the classroom rules. I still do these thing because i think that they are great to start the school year with potential and not being a bad student. How i would complete my work in the beginning of the school is that when we had an assignment that was due next week i would do it that same day that they gave it to us because i thought that the teachers was going to check the

Have you ever looked up from whatever you were doing and see the girl that you want to spend your whole life with, the girl who shares some characteristics with you, who is looking right at you, but you are too scared to say or do anything? It was autumn and the air was cold and crisp. “The bell just rang Kotaro! Let's go, don’t want to be late to class on the first day of school!” Yama said with excitement in his voice.

As if my first semester of college wasn’t bad enough the second semester was even worse. One day I woke up to a string of events would shape my life forever in a way that I never saw coming. It was my first year of college, a dream come true to be out of my mom’s house and in the mix of over thirty-six thousand people. Unfortunately, I forgot in a school of such large numbers you are just a single person. This means you yourself aren’t exactly a priority or concern of a university of such large scales. At least that is how I felt after the failure of my second semester of college. THESIS STATEMENT HERE PLEASE

In the middle of the first semester, my grandmother who had bad health for a while, quickly got worse. Two weeks before Thanksgiving break, she was put into hospice, and doctors predicted she would not make it to Thanksgiving. I quickly arranged my schedule, so I could see her one last time. I planned to drive Thursday, visit my grandmother Thursday night, Friday, and Saturday morning, then drive back Saturday to relax with friends Saturday night, and study on Sunday. On Saturday Hendrix held a concert, I wanted a good distraction and to be with friends after a confusing goodbye. Being with friends and having a distraction, I hoped could be some kind of healing for my own goodbye with my grandmother that merely symbolized the anticipation of what my family would soon face. That’s how the night played out, up until I ran into a guy friend. We had two classes together, we hung with the same friends, and we were often flirty with one another. He simply asked why I missed class on Friday. We had engaged in small talk before, but we hadn’t shared any deeply personal information. At school, I had only told my roommate about my grandmother. Already drunk and vulnerable, I let my guard down with a new friend. I shared with him that I had just seen my grandmother for the last time. He started off simply comforting me with what I needed, a strong embrace. Having his attention, his physical support, seemed like a kind of healing, yet things only escalated from there. Getting this

Hearing so many good things and bad things about college I didn’t know what to expect and look forward to. That change my junior year knowing different college come every year I didn’t really pay it any mind what college I wanted to go to until ODU, Virginia State University and Virginia Teach came. It was Virginia State first year of visiting out school and I knew I wanted to go there I start getting e excited for college that were talking about their experience at college and what to look for when we graduated if we decided to go to college. Eager to start a new chapter college sound like it could be a little nerve wrecking but I thought I could handle it.