Monday, December 9, 2013

16A&B Evaluating My First Semester


It is crazy to think how fast my first semester of college has gone by. Thinking back to August where I came in as a scared freshman looking forward to college and the experience it gives us. Academic wise, I was prepared to get loads of homework and long nights of studying for classes. As a college student so far I have learned that college is what you make it. If you want to study and do well in school it is up to you and if you don't want to study and do well then you don't. The fate of our academic careers and actual careers in our future is in our hands. Being familiar with the most of the campus is more comfortable then when in August I was lost wherever I stood. My learning process has changed for the better. I believe that since I am a nursing major I have to put forth ALL of my time and effort into getting the grades I need. Being a freshman is hard getting used to be able to do whatever we want whenever, which can hurt some of sometimes. 

Looking at my grades for all my classes, I believe that my biggest achievement is that I have basically all A's and B's in all my classes except for one. Obviously our first semester of college is the easiest, but no matter what we have to put in the effort to make sure we get the grades we want. The biggest challenge for me this semester has been trying to get the C+ I need in my microbiology class. Being a nursing major my grades for the classes for nursing is where I need to do my best on, but it also has been hard. Next semester all my classes I am taking are classes that are required to be taken for pre nurses so it is going to be a challenge to keep up with good grades, but it is not impossible. Getting into the nursing program is all I want so I have to leave the partying ways and late nights out more in order to focus on school. 

Time management has never really been a problem for me. Even if it has to deal with school, work or other things I have always made sure that I make time for everything I need. Coming to college has been a great change in my academic life, but a change that I do like and am taking advantage of. Making time for school, homework, studying, work and other things has been pretty easy for me. I am not going to lie there are days where I should be doing work rather than going out, but it has not affected me in a negative way towards my academics. I usually get my work done right after it is assigned and try to so that I have more time to relax or do other workloads of homework that needs to get done. Even if you are not that great at managing time I think that college does prepare you for that in your first semester. You learn how to manage time and need to learn your priorities if you want to succeed in college.  




Overall, my college experience has been great. I believe that I am leaning towards the right path and continue to use the resources the school provides us and use everything I have learned to apply to my daily life or in other classes. I still have a long ways to go for my nursing career, but I am prepared to do whatever I need to do to make my career possible. College is where we learn from mistakes and learn many new things so make it fun on the way because college only comes around once!

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