Hello all, my name is Karis and I am a third year, engineering major at my University. Even though one rarely hears African-American, female, and engineering all in the same sentence, we do exist. I grew up loving school and everything about it. I remember gliding through summer workbooks to the extent where my mother started buying me three and four workbooks to work on at one time. Yet, the only subject that I dreaded working on was English. Even now, it takes me longer than most people to write a mere 2 page paper. However, my major allows me to exchange writing papers with problem sets which I happily enjoy. I am a Materials Science Engineering major with a biomedical engineering minor. Now that most of my prerequisites are finished, I am taking two materials science classes, biomaterials, and EDIS. It is a somewhat lighter schedule, but my materials classes are very demanding and I need a high GPA if I plan on getting an internship this summer.
I decided to take EDIS 2890 as a way to learn more about myself and how I study. I would spend hours studying, however my test grades showed as if I did not study at all. From this class, I hope to gain efficient study skills as well as a new perspective on school. Spring of 2012, I received a letter from my Dean that I was put on academic probation. My parents suggested that I take a semester off to get my thoughts straight. Both of my parents were put on academic probation during their college years and thus it seemed only customary for me to do the same. Nevertheless, I chose to persevere and endure the challenge to bring up my GPA. I was able to do just that, and I want to continue my voyage towards success not only in college, but life as well. I am working on bringing up my GPA by putting more effort in my classes and learning better time management skills especially when it comes to balancing schoolwork with my extracurricular activities.
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ReplyDeleteKaris,
ReplyDeleteIt is truly funny how we speak English, but we dread writing it for someone else. My best tip that I can give you is that when you write for a class, try to get to know that professor. I have had some professors which love my writing and I have had some that have told me I need to develop my writing skills. I remember my freshman year of college. I was told in my English 111 that I did not write well. I was deeply upset. This was because I use to write all the time and I had wanted to become an author. I wanted to inspire people through my writing. I had always done well with English once before, so I was shocked. I begun to doubt my own writing after being told that I was not a good writer. Therefore, I hated to write. It was not until I took English 112 that I begun to gain back my confidence. I learned about my own style of writing within that semester and I was encouraged to write. I like to write like I am having a conversation with my readers. I just love writing stuff that I feel like people can relate to. Creating means something over sounded educated to me in my writing. So, just remember what you write means something to someone. The point of me sharing my experiences is to let you know not to get discouraged. Everyone can write. It is just that everyone writes differently. It is also not how long it takes you do something that matters. It is the quality that matters more. I would like to reduce the hours I spend on school work.