Ishanti Commander

I want to be a labor and delivery nurse. Therefore I will have to read human anatomy and biology literature or things like lab work. As a result, I will need to remove distractions, take notes, and set aside time to read. To guarantee future success, I will make sure to take many biology/anatomy classes, learn how to retain a lot of information at once, and study all the time.

I walked into college thinking it would be something like high school. I thought I would be able to get by without studying or the teachers will help you out with everything, thinking things would be so easy. I had a rude awakening when I got back my first exam in biology, and saw a forty-eight percent. I didn’t understand why the grade was so terrible. I thought I had it all planned out. The test wasn’t easy and I didn’t expect it. I thought I would have a higher chance of getting a good grade when I found out that it was multiple choice. I didn’t know what to do when I saw that grade. I felt like a failure. I couldn’t look at another grade of mine like that. At that moment I knew it was time for a change.

The next day, I did the first thing I could think of to help me out with that class. I went to the Nittney Success center for a tutor. I started to take the extra mile and take my weekly quizzes multiple times to get better grades on them, to put my grade higher from the low test. I started reading each chapter fully and answer the questions at the end of each chapter to help me understand what I read. I used the methods that I learned in LLED to help me study the information being learned. For example, the flash cards, highlighting, rewriting the information, were helpful for me. Eventually I realized that my weekly quizzes were getting better. I noticed that I knew the stuff that the professor was lecturing about, so it became a review. I felt very proud of myself. I felt relieved that there was actually hope of me passing and getting a grade that could help me get into the nursing program. My motivation became my degree that I would receive at the end of all this work.

I didn’t want to be a failure. I didn’t want to be frowned upon by my parents. I didn’t want to be a bad role model for my siblings, so I had to make that change. Now that I made that change, I feel better about myself. I learned how to remove distractions that prevented me from doing what was supposed to be done. I learned how to create better study environments and study techniques that I didn’t learn in high school. I became more mature and like an adult. I realized me priorities and what was important. I know now, how to start off the next semester. I have to stop procrastinating and start teaching myself from the beginning. I learned how to study better, so I can use those techniques in the future. Getting a horrible grade can’t and will never happen again!