Reflective Essay: What To Expect From College

College as a whole is not at all what I expected it to be like, just because I was able to wake up early for highschool it doesn’t even equal up to waking up early for a college class. Being a freshman I didn’t know what to really expect from college except from what I seen on tv. I’m a biology major currently taking five classes, Biology 131, Biology 160, Core 101, Math 138, and University 100. I was originally in six classes, but to take some of the load off that I had I decided to withdraw for Chemistry 101. My major requires more time outside of class than originally thought. For Biology 131 the main expectations for this class is to attend all classes and labs, and keep up with all the material being taught. In Biology 160 the expectations are to be prepared to learn, attend and participate, get help if needed, and …show more content…
Everything I was doing was taking away from my academics, sad part about it is that I didn’t realize just how bad it actually was until midterm grades were posted. In high school I never really had to take note considering that everything was pretty straight forward to me. So my note taking skills and study habits are not good at all. My time management is just as bad as my study habits and note taking skills. Overall performance in all my classes was poor. Now that I have withdrawn from Chemistry 101, cut back on the hours I work, and stopped pledging I actually have time to dedicate to bring my grades back up. I feel that I am on the right track now, I’ve been getting help from Mrs. Williamson, a premajor advisor, and Karen, a student that works in premajor. They are such a great help! Mrs. Williamson is helping me look into other majors and Karen is helping me with my time management skills, note taking skills, and my study skills. I do go to my professor’s office hours when I have free time. I also have a friend that is a biology major, we have started studying