Hey everyone, long time no blog. I've been away at university and maybe it was because I was too busy or never really got into this blogging thing but now I'm back at home and have a stupid amount of time on my hands so this would be the time to get this blog rolling again.
To celebrate my 10 month hiatus, I'm compiling a 5 part reflection of my freshmen year for you to dissect, criticize, and learn from. The first one is probably the most important and biggest of my mistakes. Academics.
Good god did I drop the ball. Not only did I drop the ball, I dug a 6 ft hole and buried it in the ground while my parents wept and I threw flowers.
I guess all I have to say for myself was the first semester was a MAJOR learning experience. I came from a small high school that wasn't very challenging. I never had to work hard for good grades and I graduated high school with honors (cum lade) with a 3.8 GPA. With my GPA I qualified for Eastern's Emerald scholarship and was awarded $4,500 yearly towards tuition.
The first semester I was distracted to say the least. Everything was new, I was desperate to make friends and hang out with them. Often I would put off homework to hang and be social with them. Another issue was I wasn't used to sitting down for hours on end only to be half way done with homework. I didn't have patience and would bullshit it when I got bored. The only class I really liked was Intro to Film Appreciation because it met one day a week and we watched movies then wrote two- four page papers about them. I ended up getting an A- in that class, the only one of the semester.
I took College Algebra. A background about me, I am awful awful awful at math. I took it to get my math gen ed credit out of the way. My professor had a thick Indian accent and I didn't seek help as soon as I needed to, which resulted in a D.
Public Speaking was no better. I didn't turn in speech outlines 100% of the time and skipped class. I thought I was doing decent because my grade showed a 70, however it was out of 120 points, and that blind-sighted me. D.
French 2 was the only one I fought for. I took French 1 at a community college level and then took a year off. I worked my ass off all semester and ended up with a B.
At the end of that shit storm my GPA was a 2.1. I needed a 2.7 to keep my scholarship and my parents were livid. I needed to get practically all As next semester or I would loose it and everything would have to come out of pocket.
I definitely devoted more time to study and truly tried. To cover my ass a bit I picked easier, more fun classes. Composition 2, Intro to Audio Production, and Fundamentals of Acting all landed me an A. In Intro to Astronomy I got a B, and the lab turned a B+. My GPA for the semester was a 3.7 which raised my cumulative GPA to a 2.8 keeping my scholarship.
In conclusion, don't dick around at college. Yeah, everything is shiny and new, but put in work otherwise you'll get in a situation like mine. Trust me, parents hound you even worse when your scholarship is in jeopardy. Hope this was helpful, stay tuned for more reflections coming soon.
xx
Clair
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