Reflection Paper

Coming into college I was extremely motivated to do the best that I could in everyone of my classes and I was expecting all of my courses to be education major-based, but I was proven wrong. Turns out I was only going to take one course that taught about education and that was this intro to education course. I was so excited to finally take a part of the school system from a different point of view and I thought that the lecture portion was just discussing what we experienced while we were in the field, but boy was I wrong. In reality this course was a lot of work. The lectures contained a lot of information that I didn’t think I would learn about until a couple years into the major and the courses’ homework seemed impossible at the time,

Now that I was in high school everything was different. There were several different types of goals that included different things that kept me motivated throughout the four years. One of my goals in high school was to get a good GPA in order to graduate as one of the higher ranks of my graduating class. The motivation behind this was seeing how successful those who did get good GPAs from previous graduating classes were. Another motivation consisted of the fact that I needed to do better than my parents, more specifically my dad, did in school, because I see how hard that they work just to make sure the necessities are provided for me. Another goal that I had was to get on the national honor society. The motivation behind this specific goal was fueled by the motivation to get into a good college and get a good scholarship because we all know how expensive college really is. Once I finally achieved these goals, I was presented with an acceptance letter from Bowling Green State University along with a decent amount for a scholarship which was the reason why my motivation was so strong for the four years. If I did not have any goals then there would not be any motivations that would be fueled by those specific