“Hardwork beats talent, when talent doesn’t work hard.” This saying my father has used to teach me that working hard can help achieve any goal. With this quote always in the back of my head, I entered the high school realm freshman year. At that point school had not posed to be particularly difficult for me, I did the work assigned and got the grades. This all changed during my freshman year when I stepped into my geophysical science class. Throughout my academic career up to that point I had never been challenged quite like I was in this science class. I had a teacher who loaded the homework high and gave very challenging test, to which I had not been prepared for. But knowing that I was not a person who was gifted with the talent of a photographic memory, to succeed in this class I was going to have to work hard, every day inside and outside of class.
The late nights, hours of homework, and the amount of stress caused by this class was what made me initially hate the class and even the teacher. My teacher kept saying that one day we would thank her for the lessons that we would learn in this class. Being the naive freshman that I was, I could not think of a time later in my life where knowing the difference between felsic magma, mafic magma, and plutons was going to help me. It …show more content…
The realization that every educational experience that a person has, is meant to teach you not only about that specific subject but also about yourself and how to morph to become a better student from each experience. Now three years later I am still able to recall some things about that dreaded geophysical science class, but I was also able to learn how to write my own study guides and take good notes, two skills I have been able to extensively apply to all of my
The late nights, hours of homework, and the amount of stress caused by this class was what made me initially hate the class and even the teacher. My teacher kept saying that one day we would thank her for the lessons that we would learn in this class. Being the naive freshman that I was, I could not think of a time later in my life where knowing the difference between felsic magma, mafic magma, and plutons was going to help me. It …show more content…
The realization that every educational experience that a person has, is meant to teach you not only about that specific subject but also about yourself and how to morph to become a better student from each experience. Now three years later I am still able to recall some things about that dreaded geophysical science class, but I was also able to learn how to write my own study guides and take good notes, two skills I have been able to extensively apply to all of my