From the very moment I procrastinated, I knew that the only result ahead was a failure. When attending a school you are always told to plan ahead of time by being organized. However, I always preferred handling my academic work at a snail 's pace. Simply said, I procrastinated leaving everything to the last minute. For some people, being under pressure they tend to produce better results, but on the contrary that is never always the case. Through my personal experiences this didn 't necessarily happen to be the case all the time; sometimes I did better than expected, while other times when I expected to do terrific it would turn out that I did horrible. Most of these personal experiences occurred for me during high school and middle school,
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In my senior year of high school, I gained the privilege to take an AP Calculus rather than pre-calculus. It meant working with a smaller class size of sixteen students when compared to a class size of thirty students, being able to use a chrome laptop provided by the school for class work, and taking the AP Exam to receive some college credit, and so on. My major problem at the beginning was when I used the chrome laptop to take class notes, rather than writing them down in a notebook. From this, I gained a new insight about myself, which is that I 'm a visual learner. Since I was struggling with AP Calculus just by typing notes on word documents, I didn 't get a satisfactory grade for the first quarter, however, for the remaining three-quarters of the academic year I noticed that my grade rose significantly with the written notes. If I hadn 't procrastinated with switching from one note taking to another, I would have been more prepared when I took the AP Exam. Procrastination not only affected me in the short term but in also in the long term. The notes that I originally didn 't write in my notebook had more value considering that it affected me on the AP Calculus Exam tremendously. Limits and derivatives were heavy on the exam, and ironically these two were learned at the beginning, but I was unable to grasp them properly because I was writing notes down on word documents. From this, I learned that it 's easier to learn something as a visual learn when you have examples to work with that make a lot of sense and are visually pleasant to the eye. Unlike my previous reason for procrastination, this time, I was new to the idea surrounding AP classes so I was unable to quickly adapt as I would have hoped. For me, written notes are more visual than notes written on a computer, considering that by writing down the notes your hand and mind in a sense memorize
In my senior year of high school, I gained the privilege to take an AP Calculus rather than pre-calculus. It meant working with a smaller class size of sixteen students when compared to a class size of thirty students, being able to use a chrome laptop provided by the school for class work, and taking the AP Exam to receive some college credit, and so on. My major problem at the beginning was when I used the chrome laptop to take class notes, rather than writing them down in a notebook. From this, I gained a new insight about myself, which is that I 'm a visual learner. Since I was struggling with AP Calculus just by typing notes on word documents, I didn 't get a satisfactory grade for the first quarter, however, for the remaining three-quarters of the academic year I noticed that my grade rose significantly with the written notes. If I hadn 't procrastinated with switching from one note taking to another, I would have been more prepared when I took the AP Exam. Procrastination not only affected me in the short term but in also in the long term. The notes that I originally didn 't write in my notebook had more value considering that it affected me on the AP Calculus Exam tremendously. Limits and derivatives were heavy on the exam, and ironically these two were learned at the beginning, but I was unable to grasp them properly because I was writing notes down on word documents. From this, I learned that it 's easier to learn something as a visual learn when you have examples to work with that make a lot of sense and are visually pleasant to the eye. Unlike my previous reason for procrastination, this time, I was new to the idea surrounding AP classes so I was unable to quickly adapt as I would have hoped. For me, written notes are more visual than notes written on a computer, considering that by writing down the notes your hand and mind in a sense memorize