9B Midterm Grades

This week we received our midterm grades for each of our courses. I was happy with the results but I wish some of them were better. I’ll admit I slacked off a lot in high school, so its ben a struggle keeping up with all my work here. What I find most difficult is not actually being told what to do and having to figure out when to do things on my own. I think I’ve been doing a pretty good job so far my grades aren’t bad at all. My goal is to get all A’s which I don’t have thus far, so this last half of the semester I need to figure out what I need to do to accomplish my goal.

            One thing I’ve been proud of myself for is my test grades. In just about all my classes I’ve been doing fairly well on my test and quizzes, which was one of my biggest struggles in high school. Another thing I’ve been successful at is getting all my work done on time, it’s not always easy with so much going on but it always gets done. My hardest class is math; I’ve always had a difficult time in this subject. I find what helps me is too keep doing problems over and over again. Another thing I need to do is go to my math professor and talk to her one on one for help. I think if I were to this it would help my understanding so much more.

            Overall, I’m pretty happy with my midterm grades and they are what I expected them to be. Like I said my goal is to get all A’s, which means I need to work much harder for that to happen. To reach this goal I need to do a few things. First, I need to find a place to study where all my focus is on my work. Second, I need to make use of my professor’s office hours, I’ve never gone to anyone’s office hours before and I really want to change that. Third, I need to study more, on average I spend abut 20 hours week on homework an I know if I were to raise that number it could possibly raise my grades as well.