Room 303 Reflective Essay

In room 303, Mr. McGee loves to keep you busy, challenging you to every extent. This year, I have been successful in many ways, and also learned more about myself in which way I learn, how I study, and how I attain knowledge. Every Tuesday or Wednesday of every week, we had what was called a “packet” due. Which contained numerous annotations followed by an essay, held together with a cover sheet. I turned in every packet, the day it was due, start to finish. By doing so, it wasn’t always easy and I could have done many things differently to improve my grade. I was very lenient if I wanted to take the 1020 class with Mr. McGee. I heard from my older peers that it was madness, stressful, and time consuming. With sports, I didn’t know if I had …show more content…
For starters, I should have started my packet and done that through the week, compared to starting the whole packet the night before. That results in a sloppy packet, which means I didn’t get a good understanding of the poems or stories, and my essay is not well written. I would stay up till all hours of the night to finish my essay the night before, which was always a challenge when we needed five external validations and three internal validation. This method that I chose to go with didn’t leave me any time to get my paper edited or revised before turning in. Also, I wish I would have studied harder for the exams. Most of the time, I would walk into the classroom without the knowledge of there even being an exam that day. Along with that, I wouldn’t even know what text the exam covered. I wish I would have prepared myself for the exam better, so that I would have gotten passing grades and wouldn’t have had to write a no fail essay for each one. The lastly, I wish I would have taken more advantage of plus points. By simply doing little assignments, I could have gained a few extra points on my exams that would have also helped my exam grade. Clearly, there is different aspects that I should have done differently to be even more