Reflective Essay: What I Learned Before Returning To College

Upon entering English 111, I knew I would be writing papers. However, I did not anticipate how much room I had for improvement. Throughout this term I have been enlightened with so much knowledge that I may have forgotten or have been exposed to for the first time. Certainly, my experience with essay writing has been solidified due to newfound knowledge of proper work citing, MLA standards and the steps of planning an essay. Perhaps, my time away from a learning environment slowed me down a bit, other times I feel as though I have an advantage due to life experience. An online environment has certainly been challenging but throughout the course I have provided solid work and consistent grades commendable of an A grading.

I received an acceptance from a US MD school during the 2013-2014 cycle. However, as an international student, I was required to deposit all four years’ worth of tuition in an escrow account prior to matriculation, which I was unable to do. While I was aware of the escrow requirement prior to application, I was on track to obtain permanent residency during the application year per my immigration attorney, which would excuse me from this requirement. However, given the uncertain nature of the residency process, this did not, and is yet to, happen. My family and I had recently immigrated from India, and coming up with the escrow amount was impossible at that time. Loans were also only available on a yearly cadence, not for all four years at once.

Coming out of high school I was happy that I graduated but I also felt lost in a way, I did not know what I wanted to study or even what I truly wanted in a university so I decided to attend community college not only was it cheaper but it would give me time to take classes and try to figure out the career path that I wanted to take. It was the more practical decision for at the time and then later on transfer to the University of my choice. At first my approach to community college was a place to go attend my classes go to work and go home. I became reserved unlike high school. I stayed in my own comfort zone which included just walking with the friends that I had known from high school. I went on about this way for the first year but I started

I am writing to petition for my return to Franklin and Marshall College for the fall 2016 semester. In my previous petition, I stated I was going to pass all my classes and manage my time more around my academics. I passed all my classes and did everything I said I was going to do in my previous appeal. If I needed help, I will go to my professors and also attended group tutoring events. I was using a more efficient approach because I was using every resource possible to help me maintain my grades and also keep up with my extracurriculars. I did not want to lose my well roundedness, so I created a system to help me balance it with my academics. Therefore, which led to me not performing to where to the college wanted me to be. I did my best and I know what needs to be done in order for me to do better.

During my first year at UMD I dedicated much time and effort to ensuring academic success. In tandem to my pursuit for academic excellent I also sought to be involved in the UMD community. While achieving good grades and getting the most out of learning are worthy pursuits, I firmly believe that reaching out to others in various ways helps me to grow and mature. Since sharing my gifts with others will help to improve my educational experience, this year I plan on starting calculus tutoring. I am eager for the opportunity to have a chance to sharpen my leadership skill through this program. When I first got to UMD, I made friends at the Newman Center. I helped out as a student missionary by volunteering to be a small group leader during various

In WR 121 this term the teacher teaches many things such as summary articles, evaluation, and response essays or articles, but the most challenging is writing a response essay. I realize that the writing process is similar playing tennis process. In research essays, students are required to do a lot of research papers to find important, credible and important sources that could be responsive to my topic. Students researched many subjects, and I felt interesting to respond to other author's ideas. Before students answered the ideas of the authors, they spend the time to research many articles, and then they chose credible and important information to put it in my essay. It was my problems because I didn't do well about connecting information together, and

I am writing this letter in hopes that the Committee would consider re-instating my out of state tuition award for the Fall 2017 semester. The award was originally revoked because I was distracted my sophomore year and lost focus of what was important, my grades. I realize it was my own fault that my GPA fell so low, but since then I have taken many steps to fix my mistakes including finding an entirely new friend group. I have since surrounded myself with people that are in the same major as myself who are highly driven to succeed. This change has helped raise my GPA to a 2.737. I realize this is still below the required 2.75, but I would like to plead forgiveness. There were no classes to take over the most recent intersessions that would

Science grows and evolves just as my inspiration for it does. I have furthered this interest of mine by deciding to dedicate my entire future towards impacting both science and others with my biology major. I have been impacted by science since elementary because since my first time completing a lab in school, I have always been intrigued by the fact the I get to make a hypothesis and later discover if I was correct with my prediction. Although I never won any science experiment event at my school, I never gave up and I was always curious about the way living organisms function everywhere. As a result of always winning a participation ribbon, I was not interested in winning any sort of prize for my science experiments and I decided to complete

I have had some difficulty adjusting to college writing but some new areas of strength in my typing are: I am getting better with my transition and I did a better decent job with my conclusion but I still have more weaknesses than strengths and some weaknesses of mine are using too many fragments and moving on from thoughts without completing them.

After completing my Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Science at the University of South Florida, I sought to improve academically, therefore I enrolled in Barry University master’s program. Barry provided the tools and setting I needed to achieve academic excellence. The small classes allowed me to interact with classmates to form study groups and build closer relationships with my professors. Barry challenged me to find the learning style that best suited me and focused on time management. While enrolled in the master’s program I worked thirty hours a week at Good Samaritan Medical Center in West Palm Beach, FL. Medical students have to be able to apply what they learn in the classroom to a clinical setting. Barry master’s program focuses on

Throughout my time in this course, I feel my writing skills have improved tremendously. I am now more capable of composing more organized, grammatically correct, and cohesive essays. In addition to acquiring many important writing skills during this course, I also learned how to write an MLA formatted essay. The many assignments requiring MLA format helped me to learn this skill, including the reflective essay, profile essay, MLA quiz, annotated bibliography, and the research paper. As a writer now compare to in the beginning of this course, I feel like I have a better understanding of how to structure an essay and how to properly write essays in a timely manner. The more essays I completed, the easier it became to effectively structure and make my essays sound as fluid as possible.

I am not a big fan of writing papers because writing is one of my weakest point. The interpretive essay was a struggle for me and I also didn't know how to put my paper in MLA style. During my first draft I had no clue as to what to write. When I was writing the first draft of the interpretive essay I felt like I was explaining the story instead of interpreting it in my own understanding so I decide not to turn the paper in. When I spoke with Professor Ryan Clark, he told me to write whatever that comes to my mind and that the first draft doesn't have to be perfect; after the talk with him I decided to start on my draft. The first draft took me about 6 hours to complete. During the 6 hours process of writing the paper I change pages that

I have developed a deeper appreciation for being reflective and how it greatly shapes me as a professional. I created thoughtful and well-organized unit plans with a large focus on academics yet also weaving together various competencies. Quite early on in my practicum I was able to build relationships and understand the fragile situations and complexities that were inclusive to the school community. I had many discussions with colleagues that worked with students in my class before to better under the background of my class. As I observed the response from students of lessons and discussed these findings with my SA, I realized that a shift in focus was necessary.

I tutor college students in history as well as edit research papers, reports and essays for all classes. I have been creating puzzles along with researching, editing and writing articles for the Black River Times since 2012. I work from home, which enables me more time to devote to learning more about the history and cultures of different countries as well as taking care of family needs. Having taken all the available history classes at TRCC in Missouri, I have decided to take time off to work. I plan on returning to college next fall and completing my BA in History. I have always been fascinated by history and feel there is much to learn from our past. My family and I have lived in Florida, Ohio, Texas, Missouri, North Carolina and now

During my high school years, I cultivated a wide variety of writing experiences: informal and formal papers, research papers, lab reports, and various creative writing pieces. However, I am most experienced with standard three to five page English essays. This type of writing is by far my strongest, and I feel most comfortable with this format. Given a well-defined topic or style of paper like a basic English essay, I tend to do quite well and I am able to convincingly relay my points; but I do have some difficulty with longer papers with little direction. In those cases, my writing can either be too long-winded or too repetitive. However, I do excel at analysis, particularly with novels. I find that I am generally able to convey my ideas