Saturday, December 17, 2011
Self-Assesment
In my first semester of college, I learned a lot about myself and my learning process. I procrastinate a lot. In high school it was one thing, I could get away with it, but in college, you cannot do that. It affected a lot of my grades. I would wait until last minute, so my work would not be the best that I could produce. I also learned that I have to keep track of what is due because I forget a lot of things easily. This hurt my grade a lot in this class especially. I would always forget to do my blog posts, so my grade went down because of that.
One of the things that I have had the biggest trouble with so far is waking up early. I cannot seem to get up when it is before 10:30. I missed some classes because of this so I knew not to sign up for any classes that were too early for me next semester. I am noit sure why I cannot get up early. I used to have to do it in high school, but I cannot seem to here. It may be because I am staying up later here because I am around all of my friends, but whatever it is, I hope to overcome it in the future.
My biggest achievements so far this year has been getting my work done when it gets time to crack down. I was able to do a few papers last minuet, and recieved good grades on them. I know it is not a good thing to say that I waited until last minute, but I was proud that I got them done. To help me with my success, I used my friends a lot. Most times when I had an essay, they also did, so we would sit together in the lobby and we would make sure that we were all focusing on what we needed to get done.
To be honest, my time management skills have been less than satisfactory. I wuld continually put things off until the point where I was almost pulling an all nighter just to finish it. I spent a lot of my time this semester hanging out with my friends, which also caused me to slack on my school work. Because of my slacking, my grades are not going to be where I wanted them. But I now know what I should and should not do next semester in order to get my grades where I want them.
My grades this semester have been low, but I have learned a lot in my classes. My english class taught me a lot about college writing that I will need for my college career. Inquiry helped me learn new skills to help me succeed in college. My math class this semester helped me decide that I want my second major to be math. My last class anthropology did not help me too much, but it did teach me that when you have difficult teachers, you have to learn on your own and make the best of it.
I have to say that I am not where I had hoped to be in my college career. I wanted my grades much higher, but I have learned from my mistakes.I want to bring my grades up from here on out. I have to apply myself and stop with the procrastination.
My goals for next semeter are plain and simple. Better grades and no procrastinating. I want to get my work done early so that I will not forget about them and so that I put my best effort and work into them. This will help me with my grades also.
One of the things that I have had the biggest trouble with so far is waking up early. I cannot seem to get up when it is before 10:30. I missed some classes because of this so I knew not to sign up for any classes that were too early for me next semester. I am noit sure why I cannot get up early. I used to have to do it in high school, but I cannot seem to here. It may be because I am staying up later here because I am around all of my friends, but whatever it is, I hope to overcome it in the future.My biggest achievements so far this year has been getting my work done when it gets time to crack down. I was able to do a few papers last minuet, and recieved good grades on them. I know it is not a good thing to say that I waited until last minute, but I was proud that I got them done. To help me with my success, I used my friends a lot. Most times when I had an essay, they also did, so we would sit together in the lobby and we would make sure that we were all focusing on what we needed to get done.
To be honest, my time management skills have been less than satisfactory. I wuld continually put things off until the point where I was almost pulling an all nighter just to finish it. I spent a lot of my time this semester hanging out with my friends, which also caused me to slack on my school work. Because of my slacking, my grades are not going to be where I wanted them. But I now know what I should and should not do next semester in order to get my grades where I want them.
My grades this semester have been low, but I have learned a lot in my classes. My english class taught me a lot about college writing that I will need for my college career. Inquiry helped me learn new skills to help me succeed in college. My math class this semester helped me decide that I want my second major to be math. My last class anthropology did not help me too much, but it did teach me that when you have difficult teachers, you have to learn on your own and make the best of it.
I have to say that I am not where I had hoped to be in my college career. I wanted my grades much higher, but I have learned from my mistakes.I want to bring my grades up from here on out. I have to apply myself and stop with the procrastination.
My goals for next semeter are plain and simple. Better grades and no procrastinating. I want to get my work done early so that I will not forget about them and so that I put my best effort and work into them. This will help me with my grades also.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Learning Community
I really enjoyed having a learning community for my first year here at Southern. I liked having a group of people that I saw every week in two of my classes and I will miss having them there all the time. It was nice walking around and seeing people that I recognized from my class, and I have heard a lot of people say that they are quiet in all of their classes except for anthropology and inquiry. I think that this shows that people felt more comfortable around people in their learning community. This may be because we see eachother so often, but in my opinion it is a good thing to hear. I met some really nice people and I hope that I have other classes with them.
One thing that I will miss a lot is when we go to Inquiry together and vent about our problem. I feel as if we all felt so comfortable being ourselves that it will be a really different feeling when we do not have that anymore because the semester is over.
Monday, December 5, 2011
Favorite Teacher to Many
I have not thought much about what my ideal life after college. The only thing that I have really thought about was the fact that it may be hard for me to get a job because teaching jobs are limited. But if I had to think about it and imagine it, it would most likely be like this.I want to be the best teacher that I can possible be. I want all of the kids to want to get me as a teacher. I want to be like my favorite teacher when I was younger. In my old school, on the last day you would spend the entire day meeting your new teacher and your new classmates. We would all hope for the nicest most friendliest teacher that all the older kids would talk about the most. In fourth grade, I wanted a specific teacher so badly. The last few days of school all I would talk about is how nice she was and how great of a teacher she would be. When we found out who was in what class, of course I was one of the last ones to find out because my last name starts with a "T". Then I found out that I got the teacher that I wanted. I was so excited and then it came time to split off and meet our new teachers. As soon as I walked into her class I knew that she was exactly like everyone said. Her room was all decorated and she had such a fun and bubbly personality. She was the most fairest teacher that I have ever had.
I want to decorate my class just like she did and I want all the kids to get excited when they find out that they will be in my class.
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Radio Station
One assignment that I never thought I would do was to find a radio station and listen to it. Then this week I was in my room on Facebook and my upstairs neighbor put up a status saying that he had a radio station and to listen to it.The show is on Wednesdays at 9:15. The show is called Jamz-Center and they played old songs and new ones. You can listen to this station online at WSIN Radio : 1590 AM I would for sure listen to this radio station again and not just because the person is someone I know, but because they had good music and it was interesting in general. I would give the show an A because they took calls and talked about interesting things.
I recommend that people listen and enjoy this station.
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