My academic majors are criminal justice and biology. My anticipated completion date is the end of 2019. My future education goals are completing a bachelor 's in biology and criminal justice. The field I am most eager to work in is genetics. My education plans are to complete as much towards a bachelors in both criminal justice and biology at Jackson State, and then transfer to MTSU to complete my Bachelor 's degree. I have chosen MTSU because they offer a field of study specifically in genetics.
My reasons for and circumstances surrounding my lack of sufficient progress include a few reasons. Within the last year a lot has changed in my life. For starters, when i graduated high school i had no idea what i wanted to do with my life or what …show more content…
One thing i think many can agree on is the fact that college is hard. Yes, college is hard, is this an excuse to fail? No, it is certainly not. I can say that being more prepared for the major differences between high school and college would have certainly been helpful, and may have kept me from failing. One major difference between college and highschool is the type of work given. I learned in college that papers are 99% of assignments, for the majority of class types. During highschool i wrote less papers than i can count on both my hands, while in college there may be more than that many in a week that are due. I do believe that if I had been more prepared for the amount of papers that were going to be required in college, it may have made a difference in my success. I personally feel as though high schools should have had us writing papers far more often than they are. I can start by saying that my writing skills are not the best, i have always loved the grammar and rules of english, but getting my thoughts out on paper and making them cohesive has always been a problem for me. I have had many discussions with people my age about how much we were not prepared for the major differences between high school and college. Myself and others have stated that our success may have been better if during high school we had written papers far more frequently,
My reasons for and circumstances surrounding my lack of sufficient progress include a few reasons. Within the last year a lot has changed in my life. For starters, when i graduated high school i had no idea what i wanted to do with my life or what …show more content…
One thing i think many can agree on is the fact that college is hard. Yes, college is hard, is this an excuse to fail? No, it is certainly not. I can say that being more prepared for the major differences between high school and college would have certainly been helpful, and may have kept me from failing. One major difference between college and highschool is the type of work given. I learned in college that papers are 99% of assignments, for the majority of class types. During highschool i wrote less papers than i can count on both my hands, while in college there may be more than that many in a week that are due. I do believe that if I had been more prepared for the amount of papers that were going to be required in college, it may have made a difference in my success. I personally feel as though high schools should have had us writing papers far more often than they are. I can start by saying that my writing skills are not the best, i have always loved the grammar and rules of english, but getting my thoughts out on paper and making them cohesive has always been a problem for me. I have had many discussions with people my age about how much we were not prepared for the major differences between high school and college. Myself and others have stated that our success may have been better if during high school we had written papers far more frequently,