Reflective Essay For College

During my freshmen year of college, I was determined and motivated to manage my competitive boxing career and secondary education. Balancing both boxing and college coursework was challenging. My rigorous training involved running three to five miles a day, lifting weights to build up my strength, spending countless hours punching the heavy bags, and sparring. Since I was competing, I was training six days out of the week. I competed in amateur boxing events ranging from club shows to regional tournaments and my resolution to achieve the goal of being the best has led me to victory after victory. However, my success in boxing did not reflect success in my academic life.

In the first few months of the Fall Semester of 2015, the work load was anything but rigorous. My professors were excellent and the readings assigned were manageable. The only challenge was my lecture course. Without any prior experience in a lecture-oriented class, my primary method of learning in classroom was by asking direct questions during a lesson in a

Of course, I no longer weighed 108 lbs., but 125 lbs. This meant I had to put even more work into losing the weight to meet the weight division. The physical strain on my body affected my focus in class. There would be days that I had to take an exam midday without an ounce of food in my stomach. I had to keep fighting, because my determination to succeed was greater than the pain within me. Despite this challenge, I made the weight and made it to the finals of the tournament and to my final exams in college, while enduring my intense diet. The Spring Semester of 2016 was left as a correction for the blunders of the previous semester. I was able to do so by having better time management and adapting my method of learning by supplementing my resources to attend multiple