Tanquasia Thomas

I went from High School having limited freedom, to college a world full of opened door, my decision on which one to take advantage of; this showed me I had a lot to learn. I never thought that going from eight hours a day five days a week, to sixteen hours a week could be just as hard. I learn about the same amount of work just at a faster pace. I had to establish something to keep up with this drastic change. The key was time management and organization, so now I had to fit this in to reach my career plan.

My career plan for my future is to obtain a business degree; then open up my own hair salon. While achieving this task I will have to do numerous things; reading, hard work, effort, perseverance and constant willingness. My weakness is reading so
I need to establish how I will be able to enjoy reading. I tend to do that by setting aside time to read and removing distractions when I read, as a result I will need to turn off my phone and isolate myself when it is time to read, and use my time management skills to set a specific time I will read daily. My goals throughout college to ensure my success will be to study hard and work hard.

I learned the keys of successfully completing college are by studying hard and working hard, my second week of school. I learned this in my Economics class due to the difficulty of understanding the concept and inability of studying the correct way to fit that course. The test I took in this class did not seem to be the average test, so I failed it because I study the wrong way. This made me very upset! I then had to go back and reevaluate my mistakes and establish a new way to study this material, and this was a wakeup call that everything is not as easy as it seemed. So from then on I had to study the lecture, the professors’ notes, my notes, and the course book. There was still not much of a change; this is when I established maybe this course was not for me. I could not maintain a B average as my GPA when I am totally failing this class.

This has not only showed me that college it not simple but also that there are numerous ways to study and I need to find out which one fits the course before I start studying. If I was put in that situation now, I would use my prior knowledge from that course, and establish a study habit that fits the course and seek help from a class member. This experience has prepared me for my next few semesters in college!