Self Review Paper For Capella

In life, there are always failures of everything. As college students, we are experiencing endless stress, anxiety and fear failure. I remembered back in my sophomore year, I enroll in this accounting 201 class for my major’s requirement. The first week of class is simple, but after the third and fourth week, it gets harder and harder. There are many business concepts and words that are new to me. It is really hard to catch up in the class, sadly I have failed the first exam. I feel so blue. After that, I go to the professor’s office in purpose to ask him for advises of how to improve in the class. Then he advises me to drop the class because his materials in the class are straightforward and there is nothing he can do to help. It breaks my heart, after hearing him says that.

In my last two years of highschool I duel enrolled St. Petersburg Community College, my local community college. In my senior year I decided to take online classes due to the very long drive to the nearest campus. I ended up taking Calculus with Analytic Geometry and two other classes online. My Calculus proffessor did not teach or provide any materiel to learn from other than the text book and homework questions. For the first quarter of the class I did well and completed all the assignments easily; however, the class got harder and the textbook no longer provided me with enough information to complete the assignments. I struggled through this part of the class and had a hard time mainting my grade which I wanted to keep as high as possible. After several trips to the campus for tutoring and spending hours trying to find other external resources I began to learn how to solve the problems and brought my grade back up and finally passed the class with an A.

In the Fall quarter of 2014 at pierce I was still being introduced to this style of learning and the school setting of Pierce College which was a pretty big turnaround for me seeing as my only previous schooling had been public high school. Along with my unfamiliarness with my academic surroundings I was also beginning my first job and had weekly meetings with a counselor.Needless to say, i put too much on my own plate and wasn't able to keep up with it as much as i had hoped to. I had been visiting a counselor to get help on some issues i had been facing with an Anxiety disorder along with issues in my home life ,which had been keeping me from focusing on many tasks. The anxiety was a major issue for me during fall and winter quarter but has since then improved and taken a back seat and is much less of an issue now. I know that none of these are an excuse for my poor grades but it was a heavy influence on how i handled

I have tried my utmost best in all my courses; both high school and college courses. I made it my responsibility to take challenging classes that are taught by rigorous and strict teachers that will give me an understanding of the real world and college; there will be no exceptions. However, my academic record does not describe my character as a student adequately. For History 102, I was on track to receive an A for the class after the final, but my older brother sadly died, and I could not complete the course. I am going to retake the

Fall of 2015 was my first semester attending Los Angeles Valley College. My first time being introduced to an actual education unlike high school which was a complete depletion of effort because they deliberately advanced me despite my weaknesses and horrible grade point average at the end of high school. Not only was my mind vulnerable due to having that habit from high school which was turning in homework’s months late, never having to study because I’d be pass either way and homework’s, tests, weren’t even correct thoroughly. Besides not being prepared due to not being exemplified how to prepare, I stumbled across another issue where my trust was given and once again failed to thoroughly exhibit what was being presented. In this same

Metropolitan area, I felt that I would be able to meet the rigor of the college-preparatory program of Georgetown Visitation. But it was there that I met one of the hardest classes I had experienced, freshman year Physics. As my teacher said, “It’s like a wall between the knowledge in my head and the words I wrote on my test.” I sat in class every day doing my best to understand and comprehend but as much as I went to see my teacher and listened to my tutor, it seemed like I could not make the grades. I studied and tried so hard I focused more on physics then studying any other subject that my other classes suffered. I felt like I was a failure and did not belong in a school like Georgetown Visitation, because all I seemed to do was struggle and

As you’ll see in from my transcripts, my undergraduate grades were not consistently stellar with my average GPA being under a 3.0. While I did support myself through college with full-time employment, I do believe that I should have been able to earn better grades more consistently while completing my undergraduate degree. My impression of that time in my life was that I lacked the ability to manage my time and I wasn’t able to focus on multiple goals. After starting a career in real estate, I began to regret the lack of focus that I had while completing my degree. I wanted to prove to myself that I could manage my time wisely and do well in my career while furthering my education so, nearly two years after completing my bachelor’s degree; I enrolled into an online master’s in finance degree with Kaplan University. While working 45-50 hours a week as a mortgage underwriter, I

This school year, I wanted an academic challenge, so I signed up for AP Physics 1, a class notorious for the number of students failing. I soon learned why: every day provided new and foreign concepts taught at rapid speed, and no matter how hard I tried to understand the curriculum, I couldn’t. When we had to take mock AP exams, I scored a three out of five every single time. While that technically was passing, I left the semester with my very first B. It was a heartbreaking situation - I had never received anything less than an A my entire life and took pride in my perfect grades. This time, it seemed that there was nothing I could do to salvage them. However, I trekked past the initial disappointment and promised myself to do better the

I know that GPA is a very big factor that you consider when admitting students into the Kelley School. And I also know that my GPA does not reflect my abilities as a student. Throughout high school I have faced many challenging classes, but the most significant one was advanced pre calculus. Not for the fact that I’m not good at math, but the fact that I struggled to learn from the teacher and her teaching style. I have taken classes with many different teachers with many different teaching styles, but this time it just didn’t click. I tried everything I could to do well in this class. I went to tutor and with her I understood the material, but when it came to the tests I could put what I knew into the problems. So next I went to the

While my upbringing in a rural Midwestern town was an overwhelmingly positive experience for me, it did leave me lacking some of the necessary preparation for attending a four-year institution in an urban area. Due to a lack of qualified instructors, my high school offered very few college-level courses. I am very thankful for the credits that I was able to earn, but the number of credits that I was able to transfer as an incoming freshman pales in comparison to many of my peers at Saint Louis University. As a consequence of my lack of experience with college level coursework, I spent a majority of my first year of college bringing my academic performance up to a level consistent with the high standards I set for myself. Fortunately, I was

I would first like to state that I have never failed a course throughout my academic career. This session was very trying for me. On Saturday August 27, 2016 my brother passed away. After planning and traveling for a funeral during the first week of class, my Godmother passed on September 4, 2016. The day after my brother’s funeral due to heart attack. I know these circumstances impacted my academic performance but with enduring all of the situations above, I never missed classes and tried my hardest after to stay on track.

I enrolled in Expository Writing without prior knowledge that Mr. Litvin was going to teach the course. I went to my counselor early in the morning on the first day to switch me into a different teacher for the class, so I would not have to feel that immense feeling of being hopeless in that class, but unfortunately he was the only one teaching that course. My last class was with him, so the whole day I was in distress and gotten worse when I stepped in. The grading changed a bit -participation was equally the same as the essays. Everyone bombed the first essay, the class got 24.5 out of 40 except one student who got 26. We were so shocked that around two of his expository class got the same grade. Later finding out that he let his college student to help him grade. I was living in fear now. If I could not pass his essays and participation, I’m not going to

This paper seemed very easy to me while I was writing it. After reading the response on the rough draft, I have realized that I need to spend more time proofreading and editing my papers. I thought I did very well on this paper but I was wrong. It seems like every time something seems very easy, I usually get a poor grade on it. After viewing the tips that were left on my paper I have found out that I need to work on many things. Some of these things include the length of my paragraphs, repetitive use of one specific word, adding more personal experiences into my writing, and organizing my thoughts effective enough to where they reach the page requirements of papers. I found these tips very helpful because it has been quite a while since I have written an actual paper. I appreciate that I have a teacher that will actually take their time on each and every paper and leave comments on how to improve that

During my freshmen year of college here at the University of Northern Iowa I took the class Microeconomics. Microeconomics is a course that was required of me to take since I am a business major. After being about halfway through the semester, my grade in that class was not very good. In fact it was so bad that I was borderline failing the class, my grade was a sixty percent at this point. Despite the fact that I was almost failing the course I decided to stay in the class instead of dropping it. In my mind I thought I could bring my grade up and everything would be fine. I thought if I just studied more and tried harder that I would end up with at least a 70 percent in the class. Even though I tried my best to improve my grade, I ended up

During my undergrad education, I have experienced minimal academic difficulties. There were six instances during my undergrad education where I received a grade of B-minus or less. The first instance was during my freshman year at Hillsborough Community College where I received an F grade for intermediate algebra. Despite all of my effort to earn a passing grade from the course, all my efforts were futile. The overall average of the class was a D and the professor was dismiss from the college following that semester. I made up the grade by retaking the class with a different professor and complete the course with a B. The next situation involves me receiving two B-minus for organic chemistry lecture. Those organic chemistry courses were rigorous