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English was my least favorite subject. I hated reading, I hated writing, I even hated doing research. In My first semester here at Columbus State, I took an English 1100 class. In that class, I rarely came to class, turned every single paper in late, and I didn’t even show up for the final and ended up failing that course. I had to retake English 1100 in order to follow through with my Academic plans. I didn’t realize that I needed to change till after the first 2 papers of this semester. I learned that I had to learn how to manage my time, I realized that I have to start using the resources given to me, and I also had to learn to stop procrastinating.
Last semester, I had the easiest English professor in the world so I didn’t really have to do anything but the final. Papers I didn’t even try on I got A’s and B’s on but that wasn’t the case the second time around. In the English course I’m in now, my professor pays attention to every little mistake when it comes to writing papers. The first 2 essays, I got C’s on both. I knew I didn’t try my hardest on these …show more content…

I could have a paper due on Thursday and wouldn’t start it till Wednesday, the day before. Every single paper I turned in, I wasn’t confident in the grade I was going to get because I procrastinated till I was out of time. In college, almost every professor has a syllabus that specifically tells you when assignments are due, so there was no reason at all for me to be missing any assignment. If anything I should have been ahead of all the assignment. Procrastinating wasn’t an option for me this semester, especially in this English 1100 course. Not only did I have papers to turn in, I also had journals and sometimes readings to do on top of that. I couldn’t procrastinate or it wasn’t going to get done. This course made me realized that if I stopped procrastinating in all my other courses, then all the work wouldn’t be so

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