Personal Responsibility Reflection Essay When it comes to the responsibilities I maintained in my English class, I believe that I have both hindered and helped my success. I hindered my success by not adhering to the syllabus, not following the rubric for certain assignments, and not procrastinating. I helped my success by not procrastinating, bringing my textbook to class, communicating with my instructor, and utilizing tutoring services. By not adhering to the syllabus, I have failed at least 2 assignments which deducted my grade by 30 points. The first assignment that I failed was the homework 2 assignment because I turned it in the wrong way. Had I read the syllabus, I would have spotted the error and corrected it. The second assignment …show more content…
I am the type where I cannot do rushed assignments and I have to take my time, so it was a relief to do things earlier. Bringing my textbook was also a major success factor because it helped me to concentrate more on the lecture and be interactive with the class. Also, if I didn't bring my textbook it would hinder my grade because I would receive a zero for my participation grade. Communicating with my instructor helped me understand more about the assignment and made it easier for me to finish the requirement. I realized a big difference in my grade from when I was emailing my professor about my confusions and trying to figure it out on my own. The last success factor I want to talk about is utilizing tutoring services. This was the biggest help in my opinion because they helped me figure out my own problems and communicate with others efficiently. Overall, I believe that these factors, which helped and hindered my success, made me grow as a person and gave me the best experience I have ever had. Without my mistakes made, I would have never learned and step up to the hall of success. Mistakes make me who I am today and I am blessed to experience
First of all, while some people say that one little mistake ruined their entire life, I say that one little mistake can make your life a hundred times better if you learn from and improve from it. For example, imagine that you got a failing grade on one of your benchmarks, and you just feel completely destroyed, as if the world was going to end. Consequently, you can chose either two things: dwell on your failure for the rest of your life and feel miserable, or study more in order to become stronger in those areas. Therefore, if you want to have a successful
As I discussed earlier in my writtings, I think that failure cannot be avoided and we are presented with failures to gain an opportunity to learn. Failures will be an aspect at some point professionally and or personally so that we can grow and develop as
Everybody makes mistakes. Failure can be a motivation, for it drives you to have a bigger passion for your desired goal. Success and failure have a relationship in which you can learn from your mistakes but later succeed.
Everyone has their mistakes, their failures, that make them who they are. However, with those misjudgements, there is always someone or something out there that will help you get out of the time. Everything that is done, there is a purpose and a reason. The mistakes you make will be made either present times or in the future, it's the choices
Throughout this semester I have learned many valuable resources, and tools. The big thing you taught us was how to write and argument paper. Also I have learned different tools on summarizing, how to better my skills for peer reviews, new library skills, and MLA format. Most of these I already knew, but you taught us them more in depth, and you gave me better understandings of them.
Before my admission to Houston Community College, I was lost on how to succeed in my courses. However, my admission to this institute exposed me to different courses which educated me on different lessons on how not only to survive in college, but also how to succeed in my classwork. There are two main lessons that I wish to pass on to other students on how they can flourish in their courses.
Looking back to the reasons why I wasn’t successful can be defined in many ways. Parental neglect and abuse being the primary cause, but a effect of that it
Another important thing is organization so you don’t lose things and keep important things in the places that they belong. I’ve learned that the hard way! I have spent a lot of time doing homework assignments, then misplaced them and was unable to turn them in. I also didn’t get 100% on my science binder since I couldn’t find some of my assignments and notes. I had a good talk with Mrs. Merolo and Fray about being organized. Mrs. Merolo helped me by giving me a folder where I could put my homework “to do” on one side and things to “turn in” on the other side. Fray taught me how to organize my assignments, quizzes, tests, bell work and notes in my binder, which has helped me to find my things when I need to study for quizzes and tests. I think I will be able to get better grades after this.
I consider this as a failure because I had to learn how to deal with this. Now I know what helps me, and what does not help me. I learned a lot from this experience to not fail
The course definitely changed the way I approached writing a paper. One day in lecture you quoted Ernest Hemmingway saying, “The first draft of anything is shit.” This changed the way I approached and wrote papers. I used to start papers the night before, barely look over them and making few changes. This course encouraged me to outline, write a rough draft and constantly review then finalization the paper. Peer review before this class I though was pointless because most student hardly pay attention to the paper and usually wrote “good job.” The students in the class actually read my paper and gave honest feedback and ways to improve it. Also to have a teacher read your draft and give feedback with what is wrong and ways to help the quality of the paper helped greatly. This English class was definitely different than high school English.
Upon reviewing the “Best Strategies for success in school” I realize that I now apply many ideas I use to ignore to my school approach such as getting to know my instructors, breaking down projects into more manageable tasks to avoid procrastination, and staying healthy. All the strategies listed are important but the three key strategies that will remain with me the longest throughout my academic career will be to getting help with difficult class work early, keeping most
As the semester comes to a close, it is always interesting to look back and reflect on the events and opportunities my English class has given me throughout my first semester as a whole. At the beginning of this semester it was evident that I was feeling uncomfortable due to the adjustment that I was going through as a student moving to college. It was very difficult expressing myself through my writing since I was nervous about good impressions and my good grade. While this class was one of the most difficult courses that I have taken this far, it has become quite evident to me that I have grown a substantial amount as a writer and as a person; Especially, when it came to explaining my ideas, writing academic essays, and making arguments.
In conclusion, I have experienced three noteworthy failures early in my life. Most people thought that based on my failures, I would not be able to succeed in life. However, with the hard work I put into, I managed to overcome my failures and mature into a more responsible person. Based on my ability to
Everyone, at some point in their life, has made a mistake. Sometimes we get lucky and only falter a little, making it through the problem relatively intact. Other times, we mess up a lot and have to fix what was damaged over a long period of time. However, the same is true for most, if not all cases—those who make the mistake learn from it. Often times, our failures teach us valuable lessons that we only gained because of the experience we gathered after messing up. I have personally achieved a wealth of knowledge and experience just from all of my own little mishaps, and a few major ones.
I can remember seeing that I had to take an English class my first semester of college. I was already overwhelmed with starting college, and having to write college essays made me get even more nervous. I sat down with my mom and decided to look at the English classes available, and I finally decided that I had to take an evening class to make it work in my schedule. The first day of English came and now looking back it was not as bad as I thought. It made me a better writer and be where I am today. It may have taken me some time to get where I am today, but at least I am on the right track. English Composition helped me realize that I am my own author and have strengths that I did not realize I had.