My Mentor Night Analysis

Starting in the fall of 2012 was a big change in my thinking and learning skills. This was the year that I started my Liberal Arts Education here at Bridgewater College. Before I entered college everything had come easy to me whether it was sports or school, but during my first two weeks at school I knew that had all changed. In high school I rarely had to take notes and homework was optional in my school district and so I carried that over to my new classes at Bridgewater. That did not go so well because on the first test in General Chemistry I got the lowest grade I had ever gotten on a test. This was where college changed for me. From then until now was a change in the way that I learned both inside and outside of class. In the classroom I started to take better notes and really paid attention to the lecture. Outside of class I started to read and take notes on the textbook and also used the resources of the college and got a tutor.

After reading Part one of Change Anything, my initial thoughts on how I could use the science of personal success in my education are to better understand how I can succeed while in school at my highest potential. I understand and have a better knowledge of many influences that are undoubtedly working against me every day that try to ensure I possibly fail, if I allowed myself to. I also found the “willpower trap” to be extremely helpful. Rather than placing blame on or giving credit to my willpower, I should focus more on how I can stay motivated personally and change the many sources working against me. The 6 sources of influence are very beneficial to understanding why failure could occur and how to overcome failure. Also, I now have to

Things really came around for me when I realized during the beginning of my junior year that my grades weren’t where I wanted them to be, so I made a conscious decision to be a better version of myself. I stopped being indifferent about school and put the same amount of effort I applied in sports to my everyday studies. Constantly improving my test and quiz scores just like my shooting percentage in basketball and my batting average in baseball. I took the same lesson my mom taught me and applied it to where it matters the most, in school.

Tremendous positive change began for me at the beginning of sixth grade, when I joined a club called “The Lunch Bunch”. This club was ran by an assistant teacher at Fort Mill Middle. Every day during lunch, a few other students and I would work on our organization skills. The Lunch Bunch taught me how to keep assignments in order for each class. Within a

Thinking back of my sophomore year, there are many factors that have made me change throughout the year that have impacted me on who I will be this school year. During the summer going into my sophomore year I had gotten knee surgery and was unable to attend the first three and a half weeks of school. As soon as I had returned, I had already been behind by a lot. I had felt frustrated not only in school but with my sport. For the first few months I spent a majority of my time trying to catch up with my work and getting the extra help I needed. Before i've always been someone who was shy to ask questions during class and because of this experience i've learned to ask for the extra help. My after school life played a big role as well, I was told I could not play soccer until nine months after my surgery in which made me very inactive. This caused me to be unmotivated because this was a huge step back in my life in regards of my sport.

Since beginning this course, I have really been focusing on the word change. Taking a closer look at myself, I discovered that change was needed. When it came to personal change, when I was willing to understand that change was needed I began to evaluate what direction I wanted to go in my life. Then I began to figure out the things in my life that I might have to change then I slowly stepped away from them. To maintain the change that I had for my life I constantly reminded myself, “Angel you’re trying to make yourself a better person for yourself and the people around you”. Reminding myself of that often kept me on the right path in my life.

Studying is hard, finding the time or the place to study always isn't right and even when found its hard to concentrate when you are thinking of so many other things going on in your life. It's one of those things that you don't think of until it's too late or you try to convince yourself of not needing to study . Having the ability to adapt to a new environment is very hard for someone like me, being an anxiety prone person it's hard to meet new people or have courage enough to speak my mind and or speak at all , just be myself. That being said, I don't do well with change, it's so difficult for me to express myself and be able to communicate what I want, and usually a teacher or a student may say to get over it or get used to their class, and those things are usually the things that push me back a

A painting of the Mentor. A painting of the Mentor’s master. A painting of the Mentor’s apprentice. A painting of the Mentor’s girlfriend. A painting of the Mentor’s college roommate. All of these have little magical lights designating the subject’s status. A couple of runes to ward off ghosts, low-level demons and angels, door-to-door salesmen, and pests, and maybe meddling adventurers. A map of the region, with little moving markers for all the local monsters. A drawer of broken magic devices. A drawer of spare parts. A junk drawer. A drawer of silverware. A drawer of quills, ink, and parchment. A drawer of underwear and socks. A big chalkboard with all sorts of things written on it. Magical incantations. Equations measuring

"There is no chan change without struggle"-Fredeick Douglas. The same concept was for me when I entered middle school.I had to change what I liked and did to make myself a better athlete and student.Being better wasn't the easiest thing on earth,I had to make many sacrifices.i made goals for myself,so I can fulfill my goal.

“ To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often”- Winston Chuchill. This quote reminds me of my whole life. When I was 16 a wonderful family decided to let me in their home to become their third son. They knew how much stress that me being a teenage would cause and they still welcomed me in their house with open arms. Since that day I have been trying to impress them and show them I could be a great son. My first couple days of high school I struggled with my academic, blaming it on athletic. My parents sacrificed so much for us just to play sports. Skipping ahead, I Buckled down and I changed my ways finishing high school with a 3.25. Graduating, I thought I was ready for college but that was a rude awakening. My first semester

Time is the best teacher and my experience in high school is an example of this. When I first started high school I was adjusting to the new responsibilities, freedoms, social situations, and life in general. As a result this made my school life much more difficult, having to balance all aspects of my life in a way that was previously unknown to me. The uneasiness of this time can be reflected in my freshman grades, however as year after year went by I started ironing out the various chinks in my life. I started studying differently, focusing more in class and, perhaps most importantly, I started going to sleep earlier. These changes came unintentionally, I was unaware I was setting myself up for a better future. These small adjustments, when

Since the first days of the beginning of class I have always thought about how I was going to change, whether it would be academically and personally. Let me personally that, I have changed for the better as a student and as a person. I have strengthen many skills such as how to properly complete argumentative and narrative essays. Similarly, I have enhance my abilities on how to use useful words into my papers in order to get the point across to the reader. Likewise, I learned on how to connect similar or contrasting ideas to come up with a new comprehensive idea for the research papers that I have written for the class. In essence, I consider myself as, not only a better writer and student, but also a better person, now I am more capable

It affected me by allowing me to understand that my presence plays a vital role in the life of another. Having someone who admires you and is looking forward to your just being there, whether that be to assist with their homework or provide active listening and positive insight into developmental process means the world to both a mentee and mentor. My involvement in this program allowed me to recognize greater purpose that one plays and each person that they encounters lives.

When i first started at Trine, I felt strongly that learning was important to my growth and development but I have never acted on this feeling ; but, I felt that i would finally change from when I was in middle and high school when I entered college. I feel that i can learn basically anything, and that limitations on my learning that set on myself would be gone. If I open myself up to learning and give myself to my studies, I know I could fuel my potential to its fullest. I know that learning increases my options and gives me the means to respond to the multitude of opportunities in the engineering career. My perspective when i first started was that i was going to change from the past; studying, taking note, participation in class, I planned to do all of that and I wanted to do all of these so i could improve in academia. In observing my first few weeks of entering my classes it shows that i had been showing changing from my past, I took notes in almost everyone of my classes, i was engaged in the classroom activities, and I paid close attention to anything the university professors’ said. One can never tell when it will be necessary to suddenly shift gears and proceed in a new direction, but I was making progress that not only i could tell but my peers and more importantly my family. I did want to pursue a major course of engineering, and the studies that usually associate with it came easy to me from math to working with designing programs but i didn’t excel in because of

My academics have not been the best. I remember struggling in some of the simplest classes in elementary to middle school. In fact, one of my favorite subjects that I understand the most is math. I remember not knowing how to calculate an average or what it meant, nor did I know what 50% meant. Going into middle school we were given the task to decide if we wanted to take the math course we are taking currently again, continue to “level up” in the math, or we could skip one course and go straight into 6th grade math instead of 5th grade math. I asked my parents, and decided to skip a math course. I thought I was making a mistake, but it turned out it was the best decision. This helped me realize that every opportunity given to me should be taken no matter the topic.