Personal Narrative: Improving My Academic Skills

Being a freshman can be quite intimidating, especially because you are at the bottom of the totem pole. You are worried about finding the right classrooms, impressing teachers, sometimes maintaining your grades. I can tell you from a senior standpoint that things aren’t as bad as they seem. Yes, teachers will pile on the homework once and awhile, but I promise you will survive. As graduation day is approaching fast than I want, I have a little advice for freshman. Freshman you need to take your grades seriously because they will impact your future, you may think you know everything, but trust me you don’t, and most importantly is to have fun because before you know it you will be writing this same timed writing as I am right now.

From my experiences, I have learned that effort and dedication are the key factors needed to gain magnificent literacy skills. Even though, I had to start from the bottom all over again, I was able to succeed in a new language.That’s why, I feel that it is extremely important to keep expanding our knowledge in order to develop our understanding, imagination and language. Although, I feel that I have improved my literacy throughout my 19 years, I know there is much more to learn.

I have had good experiences with the math lab, writing lab on multiply occasions. I enjoyed going to the math lab because everyone in there was working on similar stuff and it was very quiet, so I taught myself when I’m at the math lab its’s time to do homework. While at the writing I have worked on multiply English assignments there and every time I have gone there they have been very helpful. There have been numerous times I have walked passed the cafeteria with there being a signup sheet for some type of club to join. When the semester first began parking was horrible there is nowhere to park, and you are lucky to find a spot close to campus but do not worry about that cause as the semester continues people will withdrawal from campus and more spots will open up so just make sure you do leave the house early the first quarter of the semester. The best part about college is that you are in full control of everything that you do. You are in control of what classes you take and when you have to go to class. The bookstore is a little over priced when it comes to snacks, but they do offer very affordable school supplies so just make sure you stop by the store before you go to class to get

During my two last years of high school, i've been in contact with a lot of colleges and universities. Many of which don’t get my attention. Throughout my whole high school years, there was only one college that i wanted to go to, Liberty University. I have heard so many wonderful things about Liberty and what i loved the most was that it was a christian school. Liberty had the number one thing that i am looking for in a college, that is a christian school, but many of my other things that i look for in a college where just not there. I used to live in Florida approximately 11 years ago and let me tell you, it's hard not to miss the sunshine state. Liberty is in Virginia, a state where it doesn't feel like home. When i received a brochure

In all honesty, I don't remember a lot about becoming literate. I didn't have a special moment or time when I knew that reading or writing going to take me somewhere. According to my mom she started to read to me when I was one, so there wasn't anything that could've excelled me much farther before going into kindergarten. One of the requirements in elementary school was to read every night which I believe was an important factor of me improving my literacy. Reading and writing used to me excite me because I would immerse myself into a book or write a whole new universe on a page. I made reading and writing something personal to me. I now realize that every book and every piece of writing can be worthwhile in one way or another.

I have improved in many different aspects during this semester, three to be specific. With each passing semester, I have grown, and matured as a student and also as a woman. This semester has been a completely different experience, due to my transition from high school to college. Over time, I have learned many things that contribute to making myself a better student. The three key improvements that I have made this semester include, mastering my time management skills, taking advantage of professors office hours, and improving bad study habits. These three components have helped me improve myself this semester.

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.

I have never taken an online class so I am actually very nervous on how it will go. Also, being an honors course, which I’ve never taken doesn’t make things a little better. I really enjoy writing about specific topics or ideas. Writing creatively isn’t me, but anything to help improve my writing skills. Hopefully all goes well and I pass the course to continue to move on in my degree plan.

I have learned that I need to work harder on fighting procrastination and distractions, If I can sit down and just write a little bit a few times a day, I can get it done with more wiggle room. More time to play and not having to worry about the assignment in the back of my mind. Maybe asking for help from a real human being, with ideas and outside knowledge rather than relying on computer programs that only work with what I already have written

During this semester, one of the biggest challenges I struggled with had to do with the way I was managing my time. If it was not for the time management project, I would have not realized how much time I waste spending time with friends and doing other activities instead of my studies. I discovered that this was the primary reason why my grades

When it came to reading and writing, it was my least favorite out of all the subjects I was taking. Reason being is because I felt I read to fast and could not grasp what I was reading. Then when I needed to write my paper I could not remember what I needed to write causing me to have to go back and re-read. It was time-consuming and frustrating, but this semester along with my AAA class in my first semester, taught me some good note taking skills as well as how to write my papers more efficiently. This semester is coming to an end here in about two weeks and I feel that I take more time to read and understand along with making sure to edit, edit, and edit some more with my college level papers. It is important for me to succeed now in school more than I have felt before and I think it is because I have been given more tools and resources to succeed. Over the course of this semester I have definitely gained some new knowledge on reading and writing that have made me stronger in these areas. One area I know I strengthened in was editing my

My plan for academic literacy involved active engagement in my learning by participating in blackboard discussions and collaborates, as well as working on my time management skills and motivation to ensure that I was able to keep up with the required readings and complete all required assessments on time. Following the first Assessment, I contacted Open Universities Student Coaches who offered me advice on how to better manage my time, which I had intentions of implementing prior to a health issue that proved to be both ongoing and debilitating. As a result of my ongoing health issues, much of my planning fell by the wayside.

I have also realized that there are going to be many times you have to scrap ideas and start over. This semester I have realized that I try and perfect my assignments too much to where I start to crunch on time because it wasn’t to my expectation and I started over to many times, that there is in fact a way that too much thought can be put into a paper to where it becomes cluttered. The biggest growth I’ve seen over this semester is overall just my writing in general. At the beginning, my writing was very basic. My sentences were all around the same size and it was just not at the level of writing I would have liked it to be. The biggest thing that helped me with this over the semester would be just reading and editing mine as well as other peers’ papers. Towards the end of the semester it became easier to write, whether it was a personal, research, or

This last semester, Fall, has been really beneficial to me. During this semester, I worked in many projects including four essays, grammar exercises, and other group activities. Although in the beginning of the semester I had some problems drafting and mainly revising my essays, now I feel more prepared to deal with all of these.

This semester was one of the hardest semesters in my life. One of the reasons for it being the hardest semester is because it was my first year doing precalculus. I had to know background knowledge on precalculus so I wasn’t prepared for the hard topics. In addition to precalculus, I had my first college level, classes. I have never done college classes before and I thought that they would be the same as regular classes but I would just have a small amount of extra homework to do. I ended up figuring out that there was a lot of reading involved and I hate reading. This year I have really improved in these 3 habits of mind. First one was “Striving for Accuracy”, Second was “Questioning and Problem Posing”, And lastly was “Thinking Flexibly”.