5A The Past Four Weeks

How I got through my first four weeks of college:

These first four weeks have gone by so fast yet so much has happened in just a month. The first week of school was definitely rough at first. I had a hard time getting used to everything and found it difficult to get my work done since there was so much going on. As the weeks progressed I found it easier to get my work done. One thing that was difficult about getting my work done was having people always around you. When I do my work I need complete silence, just having my roommate in the same room as me distracts me. I normally do my work around her schedule so when she is at work or in class is when I get most of my assignments and studying done. I haven’t had any failures but I do think I could be doing better for sure. Compared to high school I’ve been doing much more work but I think I need to be doing more to get the grades I want.

This week for class we went over a lot of reading that were towards college students and how to improve your academic habits. A lot of them I found helpful and will us some of the tips they gave me.  One of the readings was on paper writing, I often have trouble with essays and since I have a writing class I have papers due weekly. When I get a writing assignment I normally hold it off until the day before then I have a hard time thinking about what to write and start repeating myself. The reading on paper writing gives good advice that I know would help me, here are some tips:

•  Don’t hold off the paper, work on it immediately
•  Make progress in small batches, 1-2 hours a day
•  Finish first draft well before the dead line
•  Always edit
•  Spend a lot of time thinking about what your saying and why your saying it

Another article was on test taking, I myself am horrible at test taking and get a lot of anxiety from it, I thought the tips were helpful and something I want to try doing next I have a test.

•  Reorder questions so that you do all the ones you know first
•  Create time budget by doing the problems that are more time consuming first
•  Change your goal from letter grade to point grab
•  When stumped go back to other questions to make them better

Overall, my biggest goal is to get god grades and like I said before I believe that I can do better and get better grades than I am right now. In order to do that I think I need to take things one step at a time and spend more time on my work to really understand the material.