The most challenging class that I have taken during my senior year would be AP Calculus. Having to transition in going to Precalculus to AP Calculus have been a brave action for me to do. AP Calculus has been the class of my senior year that I am having the most struggle on. Even though I have been struggling in that class, I have the ability to make myself to go to tutoring with my AP Calculus teacher Mr. Ninofranco in order to clarify my confusions. I had to endure all the challenging courses with hard work and dedication to the subject in order to fully understand it and obtain a passing grade. This year, I have found my strength in having the ability to ask for help whenever I am confused at a certain point. I had the chance to take the advantage of using the resources that my school have made available to me. …show more content…
I knew that I would not face AP Calculus alone and so I had the insight in seeking help outside of class.
Because I utilized my resources in getting tutoring, I had the improvement in understanding the AP Calculus concepts. As the result, I was able to receive many acceptable score from test that I have taken. However, my weakness of what I am not good at would be the AP Calculus acceleration and velocity problems. The assignment that not in good quality as it should be would be my timed write essay. I have brought forth good ideas for my prompt but I have done poorly in having to express my thoughts onto my paper. I have been struggling with having my thoughts to make sense on paper in order to get my claim to be undeartsnabke for my rreders. Thus, I will continue to effectively write on what I have to say by writing what is going on in my
thoughts. One of the ESLRs that I have been classified to was to be a technology explorer. I had the skill in having to research informations in which can make my own knowledge to expand with different resources. Because technology have been a big role in our life, especially to using Chromebooks at school, searching on the internet have made me to explore and seek many informations that the school can not provide. I was able to search many informations in which then I can apply that new knowledge into my assignments. For example, I have utilized and applied the technology resources when I had been given a Scholar in Me project from my AP Calculus class. The purpose of the project was to research an intellectual theorist that impacted the concept of Calculus. So, I had chosen Isaac Newton as my intellectual theorist. In having to choose my intellectual theorist, I had to search Newton on the internet in order to obtain informations about him. I then have to collect credible informations and apply them to the reason on how Isaac Newton can relate to my life and Calculus. Another ESLR that I have achieved in my senior year would be being a effective communicator. I have been a good listener whenever my classmate are talking in order for me to hear their ideas. Because I listened to my peers, I get to obtain new knowledges where I shape my own ideas with theirs. For example, in my AP Biology class my group and I contributed to a lab experiment in where we had to deal with the process of gene transformation. My teammates and I shared out our ideas of what and how we were suppose to do the experiment. We elaborate our understanding and have articulate our ideas clearly. We combined our ideas in order to formulate a single idea. Thus, we had successfully completed our lab correctly. Those two ESLRs have developed my trait to be a hardworking student where I utilized multiple of resources in order to expand my knowledge.
Students should communicate with their counselors to select a manageable course load based on their own aptitude and interests. Certain combinations of the most difficult AP classes may be difficult to handle for all but the most brilliant students. However by making smart informed decisions, students can challenge themselves by taking appropriate AP classes.
AP Seminar was my first experience in an environment that was completely dedicated to learning, without the fixation on the letter grades that ‘determine’ success. My peers were my teachers. I discussed, debated, and collaborated with peers that shared various viewpoints on thought provoking issues that challenged my own. I learned to ask the ‘Whys?,’ ‘Hows?,’ and ‘What Ifs?’ and dive deeper into discussion. The environment fostered differences in interests, mindsets, and intellect. My attraction drew me to seek an intellectually diverse learning environment that challenges my preconceived opinions and ideas. Columbia, through the Core system, acknowledges and uniquely accomplishes the same goals of learning as my AP Seminar class. The prospect
“I Stand Here Ironing” by Tillie Olsen, is a story about a mother's struggle to balance the demands of raising children and having to work to make ends meet during the Great Depression. The story’s primary focus is on the relationship between the narrator, a mother, and her first child, Emily. Throughout the story, the narrator reflects on the decisions and mistakes she made while raising Emily. The narrator was detached from Emily almost completely during her younger years, but she desires an emotional connection to her, like she has with her other children. She also wants Emily to have a better life than she had.
With college right around the corner and taking a college course gave a real sense of how college classes are going to work giving me an edge over all of the other students going to college that didn’t take a dual enrollment course. Dual enrollment was honestly one of the best decisions I made in my academic career because like what I was saying this class taught me the inner workings of how most assignment are going to be turned in, what it means to be self-reliant/ on your own have no help with assignment from your parents, experiencing a course that only a handful of assignment rather than a ton of assignment ends up making up over eighty percent of your grade (getting you to work extra hard so you won’t fail) and finally that you have to actually interact with the professor/teacher if you need help or are having trouble with an
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It challenged me more than usual. Even though I love math, my teacher challenged me to be better at it. But while I was in a specialized high school in DC, I thought everything would be very easy. It became more difficult because it felt like I was behind in the learning process. But managing my positions and school was very hard. I tend to take sports more seriously than academics. Once I transferred schools, it became more difficult because it felt like I was behind in the learning process. By the end of my sophomore year, I was learning that my GPA is very big. I admit. I messed up but now that I know, I do not play around and I take my work very seriously. I found this through my teachers and guidance
All of my classes in high school I passed with no struggle. I would cram all the knowledge that I needed for a test the night before, so I thought college would not be any different. A week or two before my first ever college exam the professor announced that if we had not already been study, then we should start to right away. Being a young naive freshmen, I kind of blew the teacher off. Telling myself that I did not need to waste the next few weeks studying for one exam. So I waited until the last day to study. You might have an idea of what happened next. I failed the exam. Failing so bad that it would be nearly impossible for me to still get a C in the course. I could not even look at myself. The thought of disappointing my parents was making my stomach turn. This fear of failing the class was tearing me apart. The only chance at passing this class was if I turned myself into the perfect student. This meant turning things in on time, studying days in advance for exams, and going to my professor’s office hours. And that is exactly what I did. By some seriously hard work, long nights, and over a hundred red bulls, I was able to achieve a passing grade with a
Being a scholar is a challenge that I take on everyday. The most challenging classes I took this year will have to be AP English Language and Algebra II Honors. AP English Language is my first AP class I have taken and it was really challenging. The most challenging part about being in AP English Language was the level of expectation on your work. English has always been my hardest subject and taking this course was a big step. My essay grades were very low so I had to work extra hard in all my other work to keep my grade up. Also, I was really scared about the AP exam but Ms.Pruden really prepared us for it, I went in and used everything she taught me to try and pass the exam. Algebra II Honors will have to be the most challenging class this
The government has always intrigued me, with the many different agencies. One part that I have always wanted to see what happens on the inside is the different congressional offices. If you are a part of a congressional office, you get to help bring change in our world. In serving the people, you help individuals feel as though their voices are heard. In an AP Seminar project, we learned about different perspectives; that project lead me to realizing how many perspectives about a broad range of topics exist in our world. Being a state’s congressman/ woman means you bring all of those perspectives together, to adhere to the wants of that state. I believe it is very important that a voice is given to the voiceless, which is exactly what congress has the ability to do. I believe in our current political climate, that it is important for younger generations, like mine, to be involved in the government, so that in the future they can play an active role in democracy. I want to fully learn how different parts of the government work, and to know how they function, you have to be a part of them, or be taught by someone who is. I want to be a future leader in America, just like Girls Scouts has taught me to be, anything I want to be.
My most inspiring and challenging hardship was my AP Calculus class. The name by itself caused for shivers and anxiety. Or better yet the teacher who taught the subject was someone much scarier than the subject itself. The class started off at a face pace in the beginning of the year and gave us a taste of what life was going to be like ahead of us as AP Calculus students. We had homework assignments every day. There was no free time for us. Math was our lives at that point. Not only was it the everyday homework assignments and surprise quizzes that stressed us out, but her tests that we would take every so often would take weeks of studying to prepare for and even then success was not guaranteed. Us, students, had a lot of failures in this class, a lot which were inevitable even with the hours of studying that we did and foregoing other teachers work just to keep our head afloat.
I did not find it challenging per se; however, I noticed that I read textbooks and articles not to merely obtain knowledge. I kept in mind the question --how each reading relates to the learning outcomes and other units in the course—as I read. It was a slightly different way of reading the materials compares to other classes. The question stems from my wish for this course to flow well in addition to covering all the significant topics.
There is no challenge that I won't accept. My curiosity and perseverance through tough situations allows for me to explore information in the world that interest me. One of these challenges came in the form of physics, as I accepted my place in the course without any prior higher level mathematical knowledge. AP Physics was the hardest advanced placement course I have taken due to the conceptual learning that was prevalent throughout the class. I have a self-teaching type of nature: when I don't know how to solve a problem instead of relying on others I look up information myself. My teaching method did not help me, as everything was completely new in that class, even more so than foreign language. Even though my first semester was incredibly
Before going into Algebra ii and honors-pre calculus, I took a semester class for both these subjects at my neighborhood community college. In addition, when I have a free period, I become a teacher assistant for the math class I am taking to insure my knowledge and success in the class. This also gave me plenty of time to ask for help as well as create a personal relationship with my teacher. My math teacher gave me extra questions and worksheets on the topics struggled on. With my preparation and my teachers dedication, I was able to excel in my pre-calculus class with a high
Mathematics is a school subject that people have mixed feeling about. Many of my personal friends complain about math and express their dislike and hatred towards the subject. I, on the other hand, seem to enjoy math most of the time. Although I sometimes feel angry when I continue to get a certain problem incorrect, I always put my best effort into finding my mistake and fixing it. I have had some amazing math teachers, but I’ve also had some very bad ones. I think that my teacher has a huge effect upon how well I will learn that subject, which can be considered good or bad. I have always realized that math is a very important topic, so I have consistently worked very hard to learn it. My current math course is strengthening my basic mathematics
Mathematics has always been a challenge for me. I believe that math is the hardest subject in school. I have many memories of learning math through the years including elementary, middle, high school and college.