Reflective Essay: What I Learned While Attending College

Throughout the past two months I feel that I have grown a lot in my studies. The first week or so I was anxious about classes and meeting new people and attempting to adjust to living on my own for the next 4 or so months. But I quickly learned that once I got settled in, it wasn’t as bad, or as hard, as I thought it would be. Sure some of my classes challenge me but I knew that would happen going in and I wasn’t too worried about that. I was more worried about what I would be doing outside of class, such as meeting new people and prioritizing my time so that I am able to get things done in a timely manner. I feel that I have adjusted well and am not so nervous about attending college anymore. I feel that I have achieved some good things in my academic career while attending Texas A&M – Corpus Christi. I am taking Calculus 1 this year and am doing well. Although I had previously taken it in High School and done decent, I did not have the grade that I wanted in High School. And because my major is so math oriented, the academic advisors suggested that I take Calculus 1 again even though I didn’t need to take it. As of right now I have a 100 average in Calculus and I am extremely proud of that because I now completely grasp everything that is being taught. I feel that having taken it in High School has definitely …show more content…
One of which is the overwhelmingly large amounts of free time I have. With only 3 hours of class a day and your mom not there telling you to do your homework, it can be easy to fall behind. I had to learn this the first couple of weeks. However, I feel that I have made a good adjustment. One thing I do now that I have never done is I write all of my assignments down when I get them. I usually enter them into my phone so that I will know what homework I have so that I don’t forget about it. I feel that this is the biggest obstacle that I have faced thus