In the first semester of my freshman year, I have failed English 1 Honors. Which is not very good, I never thought the class was hard nor did I complain about the amount of work that was given. I was doing good turning in and finishing my assignments in time within the first few months of the semester. However, I had begun to develop bad habits which have led me to take summer school. Distraction, disorganization, and procrastination are the few habits I have developed for me to fail my English class. While I’m in class, I always stared off into the distance and imagine little people in my head fighting with an antagonist of my little story. I have always prioritize other classes such as math because I knew english wasn’t as hard. Which have led me to be distracted with my daydreams and end up with an ironic grade. I would often daydream on what I should prioritize first and it would end up transitioning to a little fictional story aliens coming down to take over Earth. I realized the issue was that my daydreams were making me be behind in class. Therefore, I couldn’t pay attention in class and how to do a certain assignment that was assigned to us. From here on, daydreams were a …show more content…
As time passes by, papers piled up and more assignments were given in most of my classes. Papers were all over my room which also includes on how messy my backpack was. I couldn’t study in a messy environment since I always had to find a certain assignment or papers to study from. Additionally, since I always prioritize other classes other than english, I would usually do my english homework last. Which was a bad idea because I would end up falling asleep while doing my english assignment. So not only my papers were disorganized but my schedule was the same too. For this reason, disorganization became one of the results of receiving a failing grade for my english
Anxiety. Regret. Frustration. Restlessly glancing at the clock, cringing every time I do. Staring at a blinking cursor, waiting for inspiration. Spending a restless night trying to squeeze out something to turn in the next day. This is a process known all too well by me, and most high schoolers in America, one known as: Procrastination. Procrastination is something easily avoided, and yet, seems to be one of the biggest causes for low grades in most students’ lives. It’s a tempting prospect, putting off your responsibilities to do something enjoyable, but it should be avoided at every possibility. Procrastination causes your grades to suffer, causes your mental health to suffer, and causes you to learn bad habits for the future.
I don’t dread going to class or doing my homework, the material is so interesting. I love my decision to pursue nursing and the overwhelming support I have I could not be more thankful, but I have learned I am not as organized as I once thought I was. I have a hard time with managing my time between school, studying, my family and friends. The stress I feel every time I go into a classroom to take a test, which is usually two or three time a week sometimes four, can be overwhelming, some days I feel like my heart is beating out of my chest with the worst anxiety I have ever felt.
During my early education, meaning elementary school and middle school, I was a very average student. I gave an average amount of effort to my grades, and I received above average results. This did not bother me, until the end of my 8th-grade year. At this point in the year, I was filling out what classes I desired to take the following year, my freshman year. I realized that from this point forward, I had to take my education much more serious, in order to get accepted to whichever college I desired. therefore, when planning my classes, I decided to challenge myself more than I ever have in the past, and take multiple honors courses. I assumed because of my grades, that I had what it took to be an honors-level student, but I was very wrong. One teacher, Mrs. Johnson, made me realize the kind of effort, time and energy needed to be devoted to my education.
Based on the term grads, effort, and attendance, I will make a 90 in English 110. I believe this will be true due to the progress I have made in my writing ability. When we started this class, I had little to no confidence in my ability to write well. Now that the class is at its end, I have a sense of assurance that I will be able to complete works in my future classes with little to no assistance from outside sources. The grades I did receive in this class never dropped below the 90s, but I do believe the effort and amount of checking I did on my composition three will be a metaphorical hole in my grads boat. I admit that I didn’t give it my all and have only myself to blame for whatever grade I do end up receiving on it.
The English classes that I have taken over the course of my years in school have always been greatly enjoyable. Fortunately, I've been lucky to have had amazing teachers, more than eager to aid me in improving my writing. I believe that as far as my writing skills, there is always room for improvement. There will always be another vocabulary word to learn, or a writing style to master. Although I am not necessarily striving for perfection (I don't dream of being the next Mark Twain or F. Scott Fitzgerald), improving my personal best is what I am invariably working towards. This year in English 101 has served as a very significant step in my writing journey. It gave me a push into the “bootcamp” of college writing, while still retaining certain aspects of writing that I find truly enjoyable.
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
Before I enrolled in English 101 there was a great deal of unanswered questions that I had regard to what it takes to end up distinctly as a successful writer. Throughout my high school experience, my English class never served as my strong point and constantly got myself frustrated and confounded. Throughout my companions, I heard positive input on English 101 class and I thought it was going to be solely about bettering our grammatical skills and composing various papers. Due to that I was exceptionally energized and excited for this class because I never had an instructor before who really helped me through my writing processes. But as English 101 class progressed on, it introduced me to different types of papers that I wasn’t confident enough to compose. From informative synthesis, summary, and peer review, I have learned how to appropriately and effectively compose each different kind of papers. As a result, this class was able to develop my abilities at an extremely high level where I could compose a good paper without much help.
As I look back on my English 101 experience, I have come to the conclusion that I have learned many new things that have improved my abilities as a writer. I have learned some new techniques that have improved my ways of approaching an essay. I learned all about the rhetorical appeals and how to apply them in my writing and how to look for them in a essay written by a author. I have also learned how to argue both sides of a argument, and how to look for reliable sources and to properly quote and site the author of the essay. I feel as if I have become a better writer and my improved writing skills are shown within each essay.
My grades in the class looked promising, I excelled at the writing and multiple choice portions of the practice tests we took during class. All seemed well until the big test came in May. My teacher told the class that we should not take the make-up test later in the month but instead take the test on the regular test day, regardless if we were sick or not. And just my luck, I was sick on testing day! Not wanting to disappoint my teacher, I took the test while completely ill. All of my studying and hard work paid off because I passed… with a 3. I was devastated. The elusive 5 was taunting me. But I did have a second chance. A time of redemption, which was the AP US History test.
I am Joselynn Brown. I just completed the first semester of my third year at WSU Tri-Cities. I am ashamed to say that, for the first time in my life, I failed at school. I have not always been a straight A student, in fact, I have only gotten a 4.0 once in my life. However, failing has never been acceptable to me. So what happened this semester? I failed not only one, but two classes. Now, I am left fighting for my spot in a school that I got automatically accepted to for having good grades. Thus, it is time to dig deep and explain just what went wrong.
Among all the different types of good pick up lines, I personally think that funny pick up lines works the best and have the highest success rate. Reason being that funny pick up lines makes people laugh and laughter releases tension in the body and makes one more relax and comfortable. Furthermore, funny pick up lines can be use almost anywhere and anytime at anyone. One of the personalities women are attracted to is being humorous, so naturally a funny pick up line can help you set the direction right.If you want to know how to be funny, I recommend you reading Comedy Writing Secrets by Melvin Helitzer. Use the concepts in the book to help you write a good funny pick up line. Creating a good pick up lines needs some work and commitment. Similarly,
Throughout this course, I have faced many obstacles. One of the biggest struggles I faced was procrastination and being forgetful. I don’t feel that I am an awful writer; I feel that many of my low grade papers come from writing them the night before they were due. I’ve always had problems with writing papers last minute in high school. The difference between the two is that in high school if I didn’t have a paper in on time, I could turn it in late and still receive positive feedback and a pretty decent grade. In this course, it is a big deal to turn in something late. I feel that if I had used my time wisely and paced out the papers that I wrote, they would be better
Daydreaming is a part of almost all of people’s lives at some point. Daydreaming can take place anywhere, from the home, school, work, or even when you just happen to be taking a walk. Daydreaming is something that is an immense part of my life. I function much better when I daydream momentarily. Much of the older generation may say that daydreaming isn’t productive, or that it doesn’t get you anywhere, but I believe that daydreaming allows me to be more creative and successful.
One of the lessons I have learned from the last four years is organization. Organization is a good quality to have when it comes to school work. There will be days where you’ll shove papers into your bookbag in a hurry but it is always best to go back and organize all papers. Somedays I would lose many papers because I shoved them in my bag. This has caused me to stress over papers I could not find in order to turn in and that affected my grades. In my first year of high school it was very difficult to stay organized but I was able to complete the year organized. It wasn’t till the second half of my sophomore year that I started to lose the structure in my school work. Having good organization is not just having your supplies organized it having yourself together. Being organized will make you feel prepared for your classes and you feel like you have everything in
Over the period of time that I was in this course, I thought it would be a very simple and easy to finish class. But as time went on, I found myself to be demanded more of what I think, what I feel, what must be relied on my ability to understand the concepts and conventions of not only the essays, but of what goes on in the writers mind when writing.