The Importance Of Attending A Study Session

This journal will discuss my thoughts and feeling about attending a study session that included all white students. It discuss why I choose to attend this session. My thoughts prior to the study session. A detail description of my experience, including my thoughts and feelings throughout, my interaction with this group of students. I discussed how I experience social constructivism, and what I learned from this experience. Last I concluded on how this experienced benefitted me. For this assignment I decide to attend a study session that I knew included all white students. I choose to attend this session because I normally study with my friends who are all black. I am completely comfortable around them. I knew attending this study session

When I arrived to the session, immediately got butterflies. I walked into the room, because I was a newcomer everyone introduce themselves to me. It was time for me to introduce myself. My introduction was very short because I do not like talking in front of everyone. I also get nervous and my voice begins to sound shaky. Even though I felt welcomed and everyone was being nice, I still didn’t say much. Every time someone asked if I needed any help, I would reply no, thank you. I denied their help because I was too embarrassed to ask questions. I didn’t want anyone to think I was dumb. The entire session I felt like I didn’t belong, because I was the only black student. At the end of the session a couple of the students stopped me. They had noticed I was a little bit uncomfortable. I had explained to them the way I felt and they both understood where I was coming from. They had also been a situation similar to me. They also made me realize that I shouldn’t have been ashamed to ask for help, and that we were all there for help. They invited me to come back to the next study

First off, from this experience I learned all the material I needed to past my exam. I also learned that I misjudged this group of students because they were white. I was comparing them to the students in my old high school class. I was basically stereotyping these group of students, saying that all white people are the same. These group of students didn’t care that I was a different race. They were willing to help anyone, no matter what race. They also did not judge me like I thought they