Reflective Essay: Improving Study Skills

After having to take your class I have realized that my study skills were not up to par at all. As the semester began to progress I started to buckle down and sit down and take the time that all the material that needed to be studied was receiving it 's appropriate study time. After being able to just sit down at my desk and assess the work that is at my desk I can finally study and work to my full potential.

I learned that from all the concentration activities that we had done in this class that for me to stay focused during any assignment that I have to do I must sit in a dark room with any type of instrumental music playing so that I may focus on my work and be called at the same time. Being able to look around my room …show more content…
Mostly because I was worried about it the whole time until I had turned on my computer and heard an instrumental. Then I looked over at Ryan Guyton and told him let’s start doing this! He had no idea what I was talking about until I took the first name on the list and looked him up. After finding out information on the first president. It came naturally to me to just start saying it out loud in a rhythmic manner! Within just a hour and a half my paper was finished! I want to thank you personally for assigning that project to us, because I think that had to have been my favorite project …show more content…
Unfortunately I had missed Tony Bristers speech so I am unaware of what he had covered. But Ms. Steles story that she had shared with us has to this day still stayed with me. She had to choose whether she wanted to play soccer of choose her academic career. She started with the analogy with the biscuit. To distribute the biscuit among that class she was going to have to split it among all 15 of us. She had the choose to give it to just one part of the room and let the rest of us starve or feed herself and make it to where she was the only one that was getting fed. She compared this type of thing to her interests in college was she going to focus all of her time on things that did not matter or was she going to focus all of her time on school! Was she going to spend time on soccer which was something that was not going towards paying her bill. Or was she going to be smart about it and begin to realize what was really important at the time. Which made her think the most important question. Why are you doing it! Do you see yourself doing it for the rest of your life or are you passionate about it. I knew this hit me hard because I want to wrestle because I had wrestled all four years of my high school career and I have wanted to go back but I know that choir is paying for my school and no a hobby that I just loved to do back in the day. I loved this class