My College Experience: My Transition To College

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The biggest challenge this semester is getting used to college. Coming into college I still have that high school mindset thinking that the professors is going to baby me and making sure that i'm doing everything that I need to do to get things done. College is very different than high school there is no favorites are professors that will just give you a good grades because they like you actually have to put in the work. I have been going to public schools my whole life and school has always been easy to me but college it is not that. What makes college so different from high school is that I never had to study. Everything I did came natural to so I would get a’s without putting any effort into it. This is because in high school I was not …show more content…

I already had 19 of my 21 credits that I needed to graduated so I just made sure that I took the classes that I need to take to get my gold seal on my diploma. Also since I was one of the outstanding students of the school I always got to go on field trips and do thing to represent the school in a good way. All of this was good but it was not good considering that the next year of my education I will be going to college and having to do a lot of …show more content…

Even though I went to tutoring I still didn't do good on my test so then I asked my mom and sister what I should do. They told that I should continue going to tutoring and go to my teachers office hours to show her that I am serious about my education and that I want to do well in her class. They said by me asking her this she will be able to tell me things I can do to make sure that I am successful in the class. Also my sister told me that with math you just have to keep on doing the problems until you can do them

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