Reflection On Appreciative Advising

Your first paragraph is wonderful. It shows students that you truly care about the advising service that you are providing.

With that been said, through the semester my experience and my views of people who are different form me has changed. I am not saying that I’ve changed, but, my learning about other people gave me different look of who they think of me. Personally I’ve always treated everyone the same, and this course is about fairness and justice for everyone. As the course progressed I engaged more eager to learn about those issues more from different prospective, especially from the white students that don’t have the same experience as the others like black or Hispanic. Furthermore, there were things that were ambiguous to me that I learned mostly, were social and economic issues, for example the divide that exist between the poor and rich, also racism and its roots and the connection between capitalism and racism was unknown to me.

This is a reflective essay concerning my READ 3423.01 with Dr. Reid in the fall of 2016. As I wrap up my first semester at Texas Women’s University I am awed and thankful. I am the first person in my family to attend University. Some find this surprising because I do come from a family that has done well professionally, but that was due to grit and personalities. The fact is, I was never even spoken to about attending college while I was growing up. I believe this is because no one before me had this experience to share or encourage. The truth is I tried my hardest to not be at school from middle school on, I just wasn’t engaged in the process. Of course, there were a few teachers I connected with, like the business and history teachers, but I hated the rules and structure of the environment. I amazedly graduated with my high school class, as my friends went away to Universities I took some classes at the community college. What I found was that when I got to pick my classes I flourished. Even the classes that others said were too hard to take during summer quarter, I excelled in those as well. As life unfolded I got married, moved out of state and had two daughters. When it was time for my daughters to attend school I was pretty apprehensive about the idea of it. I opened a preschool in a mother-in-law apartment we had on our property and decided they could learn there in a small community. That preschool led to homeschooling, and large educational co-ops. I lived in a

“As many as one in three first-year students won't make it back for sophomore year” (“Freshmen retention rate”). It just so happened that I followed that statistic. Many colleges do not care much if students drop out or flunk out once their tuition checks have been cashed (Los Angeles Times).Growing up in a very strict household and attending private Catholic school, I was ready to spread my wings and fly. I was looking forward to that independence, my own rules and living on my own. I was enthusiastic to get started on my college journey. In my mind, I was about to live the dream. I would experience my own place to live, no rules, and get to hang out with friends! Oh, and college, too. I was not prepared to be so distracted

Over the course of this class I have pieced together many things about my own life that before went unnoticed. I am now able to see things in a bit of a different light. Now that I have been introduced to the realm of psychology I understand some of the reasons for behavior around me. I have learned that there is a reason for most everything and a lot of our behaviors and mental processes can be explained through psychology. Studies have been conducted for many years to try and pinpoint the source of our behavior and it is not something that most people think about every day. Having a better understanding of why we operate the way we do will help me to better understand myself and the others around me.

When I first arrived, I became friends with the people who seemed the most familiar to me, those like me. But I was placed into classes with people who were not my friends and initially I was upset, but when I went to the classes I found myself having fun and laughing. Some of those who seemed unlike anyone I had known, were so hilarious that I just knew that I wanted to be friends with them. I will never forget the girl who made me all but collapse on the floor from

First I will discuss the facts around academic advising using the journal article titled, “The Effects of Academic Advising on College Student Development in Higher Education.” Then, I will use the book, Academic Advising for Student Success: A system of Shared Responsibility by Susan Frost, to discuss how important academic advising is to transfer students different. After that I will dive into the interviews that I conducted from two students that transferred to University of Colorado Denver after their sophomore year. Lastly, I will discuss the recommendations on certain plans and practices that were found effective

Coming into Trinity I was scared and nervous about the prospect of meeting new people, making new friends, and doing well in my major. I believe this quote by Marilynne Robinson describes my emotions before coming to college, “I would say, for the moment, that community, at least community larger than the immediate family, consists very largely of imaginative love for people we do not know or whom we know very slightly.” As I entered college I knew meeting people would be hard, because I am not outgoing. Instead, I thought to myself I will know the girls on the soccer team and that will be nice. This imaginative love I had for my team grounded me and made me a little less afraid of what was to come.

I had a difficult time conjuring changes that I’d make to this course. In all honesty, I felt as if this course is near-perfectly constructed as is. If I had to come with a suggestion it would be to find ways use class time to harbor back what we had learned much earlier; particularly from the slides and article reviews. The length of the semester coupled with the sheer magnitude of content covered in this class can make it easy for one to forget about what they’ve learned earlier on. I find myself struggling with this problem now, as I frantically try to reintroduce myself to some of the material in the earlier lectures and article reviews as I prepare for the final

I believe that education is the building block for all success and that one can only be successful in education if he or she is passionate about something. At the time, I was pursuing a degree out of complacency rather than passion. While attending a seminar on education and poverty, that passion engulfed me and drove me to pursue school counseling. This seminar brought to light that students often times do not finish school, because they do not have the resources to finish. These self- and material doubts affect students at every level of education. As a single-minded freshman, this was life changing. I had never considered resources to be a factor in educational failure. Pity for these other students had not crossed my mind, but rather, urgency kicked me into gear. My passion for school counseling is fueled by my own difficulties adjusting to college and the fear that my nephews and niece could fall into the unfortunate normalcy of giving up. Students must work so hard to overcome the daily challenges of life and should not give up due to their own belief that they cannot do

One of the most important aspect of being an academic advising is “being present in the advising session.” In order to be fully present, it is important for advisors to understand the various advising theories and when to employ them in their advising session. Advisors must have a fundamental knowledge of the research on advising and how advising is changing the landscape of a student’s academic journey. Advising just does not stop with assisting a student with a schedule..it goes beyond that. Academic advisors provide students with the tools that they will need to complete a comprehensive, well-rounded education that will develop

Going to an early college I’ve learned lots of things but the most important thing I have learned is how to see the world through other people’s eyes. On a college campus there is a lot of diversity, many different races and religions, and a lot of people have very different views on the world. UNCW has taught me how to understand different people and recognize our differences but also learn from our differences. I think an important thing to understand in college is that we are all different but we don’t have to let that affect us. I feel like knowing this will allow me to be a successful member of the community at

My psycho educational project is on surviving your freshman year of college. College is a wonderful experience and opportunity in a person 's life. College is full of great life experiences, meeting new and exciting people from different backgrounds and a great chance to learn independence and networking skills. College helps builds a persons ' mind, confidence and communication skills; it helps guide you into a noble career and figure out what you 're are and aren 't good at. "As enrollment numbers increase, so do the number of students at-riskfor academic success (Miller and Murray)."Research indicates that first-generation students differ from their peers in many ways prior to college enrollment, including their

This course like my entire first semester of university have provided me with both many challenges as well as taught me many lessons not only for my university career, but for the rest of my life. As I reflect back on the semester, I recall telling myself at least once a week that I wanted to drop out of school, followed by many breakdowns, crying fits and calling defeat. The past few months, haven’t been at all easy for me, I have thought many times I wasn’t intelligent enough to be in university, I was disappointed with some of the grades I received and I was constantly engulfed in a swarm of stress. Despite all these tough times, I have had many good one’s as well, I have made new friends which are now integral to my everyday life and I have enhanced my knowledge to a new degree. Some of the many lessons that I’ve already learned in my short university experience include how to manage my time, the importance of meeting deadlines as well as the continuous struggle of balancing the various different facets of life.

Sitting in class for the first time, it was half of what I expected. I expected to sit by people I didn’t know, learn about old things in new lights, and writing a lot of papers. What I didn’t expect was me hating college. I am not as creative as some teaches would like, but that isn’t my personality, and I dint want it to be either. I fully expected college to try and morph me into a perfect little student that I knew I wasn’t. College so far to me hasn’t been fun and I will treat it like Wal-Mart. When I say that, I mean that I will get in and get out as fast as possible. If I pick up stuff along the way then alright, but if I don’t, then it won’t kill me.