My First Year As A College Student

Throughout my first two years of college, I have had many challenges and successes. I was excited to take this class because it involves something that I have always been interested in. International Studies excites me because it allows me to understand the world on a more practical and realistic level. I had frugal knowledge of relations overseas when I started this class, and now I could not imagine my life before I knew these things. In high school, the only class I took that involved anything on an international level was IB psychology. I was immediately mesmerized by the different cultures I was learning about. When signing up for this class, these intentions and thoughts followed me. International Studies has positively impacted my life in many ways. This class has allowed me to open my mind to many different cultures, this class has helped me understand the different business tactics of other countries, and it has helped me view the United States in a new light.

When I started my first semester of college, I was very worried about writing essays and research papers. I felt like my writing skills lacked greatly compared to other students. I knew a few things of which I could improve on right off the bat, such as my vocabulary skills and organizational skills. To say the least I was very nervous about how my writing composition course would be like and did not think it would go very well for me. However, I learned so many techniques that have helped my writing skills grow. It all started with learning how to stay organized, planning what to write in your essay in outline form and sticking to it really helped when writing essays. These techniques helped me become more confident in my essays and allowed writing essays to become a lot easier. The few aspects in which I am strong in while writing essays is my ability to stay organized, focused and be very clear about what I am writing. Nonetheless, there is always room for improvement; a few things that I can think of being grammar and punctuation due to no revising, embedding quotes smoothly, and citing sources correctly.

With any course, especially one with a focus as broad as leadership, the material covered may include a range from useful to impractical. It is impossible to learn the skills necessary of an effective leader completely out of a book, it takes the application of them to understand. The development of leadership is vital to successfully moving forward in any career, so it would be beneficial to cultivate these skills academically.

This is my first semester at Mesa College. I am currently a Political Science major. The term that would best describe my current situation would be “non-traditional” student. I graduated from high school in 2006. Since then I have gotten married, travelled the world, and had two children. While in high school I excelled and took part in many academic extra-curricular activities. In the past ten years I have accumulated work and life experience. Most recently I was able to work as a legal assistant for an immigration firm. Being bilingual was beneficial, as was my interest in law in general. I plan on attending law school in the future which made the job appealing. Although I deferred college for this long it has always been my

When first reading about Lowry’s True Colors system, I immediately assumed that the results of this quiz would have little to no effect on my understanding of not only my personality type and behavioral style, but others as well. After completing this quiz, I can honestly say that my initial assumption was utterly wrong. Admittedly, my opinion was altered when I received a high score of 19 in the blue color spectrum category, and was able to affiliate almost all of the general descriptions of the color blue with myself. Even though I was able to connect with most of the blue color descriptions, there happened to be a few that practically popped off the scream and screamed my name. These attributes include my specialty of valuing close relationships, staying true to myself, and getting involved in causes.

The true colors personality test was the best for me because it describes me in the best way possible. According to the true colors test oranges are active this is me with sports and, outdoor activities. This is true for me because I play sports, hunt and, a lot more. Being active has a big roll in my life because if I was always lazy then I would be bored and, not fit. This is probably one of my biggest strengths and, best describes me in the best way. I think if I could not be active I would not be able to do half of the things I do. As an orange I am drawn to action jobs which is part of my everyday life. This explains who I am because I like to be able to help my family and, others as much as people as long as I can be active. I believe

True colors, a personality test, was an experience I can truly say changed my perception of others. Gold, Blue, Green, or Orange? Which one are you? While taking

Your First Year of College written by Randall S. Hansen contains twenty-five tips that may benefit freshman for their first year of college. The tips Randall addresses in this article may be quite useful for first year college students. Tip number three states that being organized is a major factor while attending a college, a big wall calendar may aid students with remembering due dates. Furthermore, tip number four declares that finding a place to study without distractions is crucial. Also, tip number nine acknowledges that having a balance between social life and school work is vital in college due to the quicker pace that may result in stress levels rising however having a fantastic social life may lower stress levels by a tremendous amount.

The true color personality training was a fun way to analyze our personality, not only our good points but maybe some of the attributes that aren’t so good. I think the gained knowledge about personalities could lead to personal development on some level. I believe knowing personality traits and how we think can help when working collaboratively and help relate to other personality types.

The first year of college comes with many changes and challenges. These changes can include the food in the cafeteria, study habits, time management skills, and much more. Every student has to find their own way to handle the first year and determine what works best for them. For many the most essential change is living away from home. Campus life provides opportunities to become a part of a unique, diversified community. With these opportunities come challenges, such as having a roommate, being away from one’s parents, and determining self-limits.

Although this is my second semester in college I think that since taking this transitioning to college it has helped me out a lot more. My first semester I still had a “high school student’s mentality” meaning that I was waiting until the last minute to complete assignments and complete classwork and homework and this almost caused me to flunk one of my classes. This class has been a great help to me this semester. Professor Thorne has made the assignments very understandable; the given assignments have also had a positive effect on my performance academically and some of the assignments were just very useful and it kept you interested.

I haven 't heard much about the cornerstone course, so when I began this class, I didn 't have anything to base my expectations on except for that everyone I knew going to FSW has to take it as well. Except for students who attended before it was mandatory to take. I was full of anticipation about what the course would cover. Glancing at the textbook, I figured the material would be unique compared to anything I 've taken before. It also crossed my mind that maybe this class is insignificant compared to the numerous other classes ahead of me on the path to a hopeful future degree. However I soon decided my opinion was wrong, the topics covered soon proved to be very motivational for me as I took on other classes and began to adjust to college. It 's served as something to base my perspective on for years to come. Some of the most beneficial topics covered for me were personal financing, time management, and study strategies.

My first day of college is one of the most important experiences of my life. The semester began on August 28, 2017. In that morning, I had plenty of time compared to high school. I overslept because I knew college starts only at 10 a.m. I had an alarm set for 9 a.m. Once I woke, I took a shower and got ready. HACC is about minimum 8 minutes away from my house. By 9:40 a.m., I was on my way to the Harrisburg Area Community College. I was full of confidence that I will reach the campus on time, but the opposite happened. It was my life goal to go to college, however, there came the complication because I was unaware of the incomprehension and unfamiliarity of being freshmen in college. As a former new student, I got a little lost before I arrived at my math class. Once I reached the HACC parking lot, I wasted more than 10 minutes going around the parking lot looking for an empty spot. While I was driving around, I felt very frustrating. Besides, I was running late to class. Unfortunately, I did not consider a full parking lot. Suddenly I remembered, when I came to college orientation I parked my car across a small bridge where a new parking lot was under construction. I drove there and found out they finished constructing the new parking lot. There were a lot of empty parking spots. I parked my car and quickly walked toward Whitaker Hall rushing to find my math class. I had a map of the campus, which listed all names and locations of specific buildings. In

My educational past experiences before high school that were positive was; being a tryhard and even though I wasn’t always the brightest in my classes I always tried my hardest to strive and succeed in most of my classes. Another positive aspect in my life before high school was that I had so many friends and we would always have fun in classes we had together so none of my classes were boring since i had a friend in every class. Lastly, the last positive experience I’ve had before high school was being a child, not having to worry about my homework all day long and just being careless since I didn’t have the need to take care of myself, I was provided for. The negative experiences were that I was struggling

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.