Freshman Class Reflection

Spending my time at RVEC has been a quick overlook of how things really are in high school and as being an early college student. I am at my first quarter, and it has been a quick roll with learning how to glide along effectively. This includes study skills, time management, and how to better improve my learning in all classes, even outside activities. All the skills I’ve learned so far from freshman seminar is really showing an effect with how I become successful here at RVEC. The best part that I really enjoyed about the freshman seminar class is that it makes me realize and understand what life is really going to be like when I’m first starting finish school/college, when I live the “adult” life, pursuing my career, and withholding many responsibilities. As a freshman, I was first clueless to the things I needed to know. Such as how to keep my grades up, the things I needed to know about the things expected out of me, and what will the next few years at RVEC hold for me. But indeed, the freshman seminar helped me with those things I was concerned about and what I actually wouldn’t have thought about, or something that I felt like was not important to know. The first thing I learned in the class was time management. Time management taught me how to …show more content…
Study habits was something I never knew how to do, I would try sometimes, but I once stopped trying to study all together because it became pointless as I saw my performance in that certain subject. When the class first started on this, we found out how we learn. This is the key to study habits. Without knowing how you learn, you can’t study. I learned that I am a listener and will write down things that the teacher says in my notes and ask questions when I don’t understand. These skills followed my way along my study habits. My habits was between making index cards and repeating what I learned so I can understand and not lose knowledge about it the next