This academic experience has been a little difficult for me. I haven’t exactly been struggling but, I
haven’t been excelling either. I am a
little nervous about my work load. I
have been trying to keep up with all the work my professors assign. Most of them give an assignment, I finish it
for the next class and then, during
the next class, they assign two more
assignments. I always do the assignments
and have them ready on time. But it is
getting harder to keep up because there is so much work to do. There hasn't been a day since classes started
that I haven’t had at least 3 hours of homework. I haven’t missed any assignments, so far, and
I don’t plan on missing any. I also
haven’t failed a test yet, and I don’t plan on doing that either. But, I also haven’t received a 100 on any
tests or any important assignments.
I am not complaining, at least I don’t mean to. I am just having trouble progressing, or
improving, because I am trying to just keep up. The article this week gave me a
lot of good tips on studying, time management, a goal maintaining. In the past, I have had good study habits and
a couple of techniques that worked for me.
I would use flashcards, re-read my notes, and read the textbook chapters
and, sometimes, I would even memorize complete sentences, if I felt it was
necessary. Now I need to do all that, do
practice problems and try to relate the topic to my own life with metaphors to
make the material memorable.
I have a lot of long term goals and short term goals. It
never occurred to me to create mini goals to help achieve my bigger goals. These mini goals should have an expiration
date and once one is completed, another one should be set. This strategy seems simple enough and it
should, I hope, help me stay focused. I
need a 3.0 grade point average in order to get into the Speech Pathology
Undergraduate Program; that is my long term goal. My short term goal is to not fail any tests
this semester. This week, my mini goal
is to complete ALL my homework AND understand
the material by Saturday at
midnight.
Wish me luck!
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