UNC 100 is a course that is designed to help students transition from high school to college. When I initially started the course, I was still stuck in the habits that I had picked up during my senior year. I did not know how to manage my time well, nor did I know exactly what it meant to take self responsibility. I felt like my high school had prepared me to sit through long lectures, but they did not prepare me well enough to be able to handle the amount of work I received. Although I thought I was fully prepared for college, UNC 100 has helped me to realize that I was completely oblivious to what I thought I would experience. These last three weeks at Buffalo State have completely changed most of my perceptions on life and college in general. …show more content…
Throughout high school, I had a lot of friends, but we all connected in some shape or form. My friends were very open minded and adventurous while I was close minded and shy. As a result, we were able to balance each other out. When I came to college, I was shocked because it was extremely diverse. There were not only people that were African American or from Brooklyn, but there were people from different states, races, and ethnicities. I was amazed because I have always wanted to interact with people from different places and understand how their way of living was completely different from mines. The first week I stayed with my roommate and people that I knew from high school. By week two I was going up to random people introducing myself and starting a conversation. I learned really quickly that I would be friends with some of the people that I met during the school year, and some people I would just be cordial with during EOP. I met a lot of amazing people that are completely different from. I’ve learned so much about how people do things different from what I consider to be the “normal way”. As far as my professor, I think I did a decent job communicating well with her. Similar to high school, I did not take many risk in the classroom, but I did advocate frequently. If I had a problem, I would send an email or I would speak to my professor after class. …show more content…
I am not confident when it comes to taking risk, which causes me to miss out on a lot of opportunities that are offered to me. I have to start believing in myself because there are so many people that look up to me and that are inspired by how strong they think I am because of my circumstances. I learned that a good amount of people do not have good relationships with their parents or guardians. Most of my teammates feel like they are being forced to major in something that they do not necessarily agree with. That was shocking to me because my grandma supports everything that I want to do 100% as long as it is productive. In the future I will be more conscious of how I approach people and how I ask them questions referring to
As a freshman, I was timid and had little to no confidence. When I went to my first drill practice, I felt like I was in my element. Everyone there wanted to be there, they all joined NJROTC because they wanted to. After attending many drill practices, and NJROTC events, I started to come out of my shell. Instead of staying quiet in class, I voiced my opinions more often and sometimes cracked a joke here and there. Then came our first drill competition, where I was the freshman drill squad’s squad leader. At the end of the day we won first place. This taste of victory showed me how a little self confidence can go a long way. Sophomore year went even better. My friend group expanded, as I met more people through NJROTC. Every drill practice became so much more enjoyable, because I found out that I was actually enjoying what I was doing, because the people around me were as well. I became so confident with myself, and more and more people started to look up to me and admire me for how much I had grown. At the end of my sophomore year, I went to Area Four Leadership Academy/Sail Training for two weeks, which was a life changing experience for me. I met cadets from all over my area, and spent every waking moment with the same 35 other cadets who shared the same pas...
As a student in her sophomore year, I am still learning about what I can do and what I want to do. Although I am young, my mother always told me that it is never too early to start thinking about the future, which is why it is an honor to be able to apply for the membership of being part of National Honor Society. I have always loved challenges no matter what the result because nothing is equal to the experience of trying. I take the things I have learned from my past experiences and use them as a guide to help me in the future. I haven't ever once stopped to give up if I encountered an obstacle, but rather embraced it and thought of ways to overcome them.
My sixteen week class in English 111. I was really nervous about this class. Because English has never been my strong point. This class has hard, but fun all at the same time. I learn a lot from this class. Meanwhile,the first day of class you handed a paper with a question on it. “The first thing I want to say to you who are students is that you must not think of being here to receive an education; instead, you will do much better to think of being here to claim one.” Even though putting my all in what I have learned, claiming my education with hard work because using the skills of the meal plan, as we write to different audiences and learning to be a Critically thinker as I start becoming a critically-Literate Citizenship.
Throughout the years, I hardly believed in my capabilities in school and in achieving my ambitions. You see I am not one of those cool kids who blatantly don’t want to do anything, in fact, I was worse. When opportunities decides to knock on my doorstep, I simply decline hoping that luck doesn’t go my way. It is because I was afraid to change my status which I was already comfortable with my life. Now that I am more educated I’m seeing a different point of view, a different view of living, which is achieving great things in life and surpassing anything that may come my way. In my path towards a higher education I have passed obstacles such as injury, problems with self-esteem, and transportation.
Additionally, prestigious institutions need to take initiative to create new programs that will make college a painless transition for first generation students by implementing new policies such as mentorship or clubs. While many colleges and universities have not taken the initiative to help first-generation students, North Carolina State University is one of the few exceptions. As a fellow first generation college student at North Carolina State University, I have reaped many benefits from the different organizations they have around campus. At the Poole College of Management, I was assigned a professional mentor in my future line of work that made the transition into college a better experience for me. After listening to his forums, I was able to use the skills I had learnt from my parents and apply them to college and my study habits, benefiting me in countless ways.
In life, people come across challenging obstacles’ when trying to achieve their goals. College, like that of life, has a variety of challenges that appear in a student’s pathway to their goals. For most college students that are just starting out in the basic classes, such as Mrs. Fox-Angerer’s English 101, problems can arise due to classes being much harder than the prior high school classes the students are used to. Mrs. Fox-Angerer’s class is hard because it has an online portion, it creates stress, and it is a required class.
A few weeks ago, my husband announced that in a few months, the Army would be reassigning him from Colorado to a unit in Florida. Immediately, my mind filled with questioning thoughts of the logistics of yet, another move and how this would impact continuing my education. Days later, I had a long discussion with my brother, who is a doctoral student with Grand Canyon University (GCU), he relayed his experience with GCU and suggested I contact an enrollment counselor and find out what options were available to me. With feelings of great relief and encouragement, I telephoned GCU and spoke with an enrollment counselor who assisted me in the step by step process to transfer into GCU and commence my academic journey in GCU’s online program.
My last two years of high school I really wanted to get to know and become friends with people who were different than me in the way they looked, acted, their religion, or just their morals. I am a total people person and love figuring out why people are the way they are and so I loved getting to do that and understand people’s backstories. I am a firm believer of not making any conclusions about people until you actually get to know them and this helped a lot. I feel for me getting to know and becoming friends with people who are not like me really helped my social health and me become more loving and understanding, as well as who I am and what I stand for. On my own in college I have also had to learn how to eat healthy without my mom buying and cooking all of my foods. My mom buys a lot of organic super healthy foods which tend to be on the more expensive side. As a college student paying for her own groceries this is not really an option for me. My mom’s recipes also take a lot of prep time which is something I do not have time for. I had to learn how to make foods that are healthy and cheap, and also learn about portion sizes. It’s challenging cooking for one person and managing portion sizes, because a lot of recipes are made for multiple people. I also had to really work on making time to go one runs to stay active. A good thing about ACU is intramurals because it makes it easier to be active. The Lunsford on campus also makes
Before I tried out for my 7th grade cheerleading team I was an extremely unconfident, young girl. I did have friends and would talk to them a lot, but they were people I had been around for years. Anytime I met someone new, it would only be because they were friends of my close friends, but I didn’t always talk to them, I would just stand or sit there and not really say anything. If I had classes with no one I knew, I would never talk to anyone unless I was forced to. I had plenty of amazing opportunities that were offered to me, but the lack of confidence I had had held me back from doing things that could have benefited me later in life.
Spring Arbor University makes a big deal about their Core classes, but at times it feels like they are a joke. Then students begin to realize the purpose behind all of it. Core 100 is a class designed to get the college career started off with the correct footing. The activities and events that affected my life the most were the Monday lectures, the Real Relationships readings, and the in class discussions. None of these alone would have been sufficient, but in tandem they provide an illuminating education into how our interactions with others shape who we are and what we become.
To think that my first semester of college will be over this friday makes me realize how fast time flies. The first few weeks of college were tough, tiring and full of anxiety. Being in a new environment, a different state and not knowing one single person was something that I did not prepare myself for. Throughout all of the tears and the frustrations, I had to constantly remind myself that I am at The University of Akron to gain an education and become a successful individual.
During my 2nd semester as a freshman, i took the course gender women's studies 100 that i found to be a very intriguing and interesting class that i thoroughly enjoyed. But in the whole semester, i only spoke or asked a couple of questions because i really felt intimidated by the rest of the students. The class was full of different students that varied of what year they are in from freshman to seniors and throughout the semester most of the students asking questions were upperclassmen. From the beginning i noticed this and i found the questions they were asking were very well throughout and intriguing questions that i felt i couldn't simply feel to meet up to their standards. Most of the freshman like myself kept quiet to ourselves and since their was other EOP bridge students in the class, it helped me get through the class. I really liked my professor but i felt intimidated to go her office hours because second guessed my questions as not important enough to bring to her attention and i felt i would essentially be wasting her time. I overall did really good in the class and received a A- in this difficult class but i know if i was more outspoken and participated more i would of gotten a solid
So throughout this semester I have learned more than I thought about myself. I have learned about my skills, values, strengths, weaknesses and goals for the future. I have learned about what motivates me to be in college and what keeps me here now that I am here. I have learned what it takes to keep myself healthy and prepared to what is to come while also preparing myself for what I want to do in the future. I have also learned without all the great people here at Ohio University that I would never have the opportunity to be as happy as I am today. I am seriously proud to be a bobcat and I would have it no other way.
Those obstacles have made me a stronger person than I was before and I am thankful for them. I also have God to thank because without him, I wouldn 't have made it through these past four years. He was with me the entire journey, even in the moments where it seemed like he wasn 't. With college I will further my computer career making more successful in the field I enjoy doing. The gateway to a good future is college and that is why I plan on going to college. College is the most important goal of my life. It is the goal that I mostly focused on throughout my entire career. This year is the most important year of my life: it is the turning point of my life. The way I act, what I do, the classes I take. Everything matters. My future is before me and I am not sure if I can walk the road which I plan. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said "Life is a journey, not a
I wondered how I would meet classmates with different ways of thinking, many of them with different ages, customs, nationalities and ways of life. This really was one of my greatest expectations. Nowadays, I have met so many different and wonderful people, willing to support each other in everything, starting over with a primary and a common goal for all, fighting to get the final result, becoming nurses. More than that, we have become good friends that support each other most of the time. In our open spaces we share the experiences that we live in each class, we analyze our weaknesses and we always look for the right solution. Likewise, we talked about family and work issues, and in our spare time, we organize activities to hang out together and rejoice in