Reflection Paper

I can remember sitting in my AP Calculus class senior year of high school and seeing the majority of my classmates with their heads down on the desks. It is pretty safe to assume that if someone asked any one of the students in this class about their experience in AP Calculus, many of them would say that they learned nothing and it was all the teachers fault. The blame would be put on the teacher because she ‘couldn’t teach.’ In essay three, I wrote that “my teacher explained that she was going to teach to the test” which was very upsetting and none of the students did well on the actual exam. I want to clarify that even though she taught to the exam, she still taught the material very well. Therefore, I would have to disagree with the

My classes are very difficult, especially my science classes. Instead of sitting in my dorm room and pitying myself for not understanding and accepting a bad grade, I use all of the resources possible in order to understand the material as best as I possibly can. I go to the help sessions for chemistry, the teacher’s assistant office hours in biology, and read the textbooks over and over again until I can confidently say that I understand. After meeting a lot of new people at college, I realize that not many people are this motivated. So many students have blamed the professors for their suffering grade because they don’t feel like putting in any effort. My biology and chemistry professors are very tough and they expect the students to take responsibility to learn what they don’t understand on their own or to go and get help. If it weren’t for AP Calculus, I don’t think I would be where I am at today. I would have the mentality of most other students that the teacher is responsible for my education and I think that my grades would suffer if I thought this. Nothing in life is going to be handed to anyone. The people who are motivated to go out and do things on their own are the ones who are going to be the most