I started off my first semester at UF with three courses and at a good pace. While all my courses were online, I made the effort of waking up on time and attending all the in person lectures for my classes, atleast for 2/3 of my classes. Transitioning from a community college to UF, I honestly thought he journey would be easy but it wasnt. For me personally my biggest failure was not realizing and reaching out on time for business finance and underestimating the level of hardness for my courses. For weeks I was struggling with business finance, I watched countless videos on Youtube and viewed numerous sites and the more sites i viewed the more confused i became with all my concepts. Despite numerous people telling me about another tutoring service, i rejected all their claims and decided to pursue it on my own, not willing to give up at this point. But when exam 1 came close I realized the mistake I had made about not taking anyone's advice, and the stress level had a negative impact on my health which negatively impacted my other classes. I neglected my other courses, missed assignments and lectures and because of that my overall grade dropped
The most important thing i learnt was knowing when to give up and seek help. If i had taken on the tutoring service in the start, i probably wouldnt have suffered so much. In my mind i was looking at the small cost, instead of looking at the bigger picture. if i were to fail that course, i would have to take it again in the summer and that would mean and extra waste of time and money.
I personally feel that success comes from acknowledging your person weaknesses and failure. once you are able to clearly see the wrong in your actions and identify your biggest weakness only then you can work on improving them. I have been a very indecisive person since the start and over time that has gotten worse. i tend to act alot later than when i actually should and while i get the work done, it always have some kind of negative impact on my mental state of mind. Despite doing horrible on my first exam, i learnt from my mistake and saw the wrong in my actions and how it just wasnt worth it in the end.
Hey Maha,
ReplyDeleteI like your persistence and your independence. It's good that you've learned to ask for help, but I think it is great to have the self motivation to pursue your semester as you described it. There are many people out in the world who are scared to be independent and they tend to rely on other people for even the simplest tasks. Great job!
Hey Maha,
ReplyDeleteI can really relate to your mindset of thinking transferring in was going to be easy, which it wasn't. I really like how you acknowledged it was time to ask for help in business finance, and when I take that class I will heed your advice and ask for help early. And good for you for asking for help and hopefully it paid off for the other exams and the final.