Reflection Essay What The Best College Students Do

Coming to Roadmap class with Mr. Whalen was tons of fun because he made everything interesting so that me and my classmates would be engaged. This course required every student to read a novel written by Ken Bain titled, What the Best College Students do. At first, I did not want to read this novel because it seemed to long and boring. The professor connected the novel perfectly to class activities and discussions that I enjoyed reading it. I would agree that Bain wanted to demonstrate students that they all have goals and potentials to meet. He wanted students to realize that they have a better person within themselves and that they should bring the best out of them no matter the situation. With the Bain I encouraged myself to apply some key …show more content…
Bain stated that the people who make it to the “highest stages of rational inquiry reflect a deep understanding of knowledge, and it is that deep understanding that influences how you make judgments about difficult choices in life” (Pg. 156). I agree about this statement because when make certain decisions with a deep knowledge it will determine the kind of person you will become in life and that is something good about every human being. Chapter six mainly talked about self-compassion and for the most part I would agree that I am self-compassion. Self-compassion works in life because this is a way of encouraging and motivating yourself to do things better. The things that you will be doing better is not to get into a competition with anybody else but for you to feel better about yourself. When we did the Our Passions project I felt like my group contributed greatly with everything we had to do. We all gave ideas and helped each other out if we needed it; we respectively heard each other’s opinions. As a group, we cared about each other’s thoughts and if he did not like something we figured out a way to work things out. At the moment, we all collaborated with our own kind of