I was not surprised, but very disappointed when I received notification of my Academic Probation. I met with the Dean and explained the situation to him as well. My first year at the University of Richmond proved to be a very difficult experience for me and my grades suffered as a result. I am certainly not attempting to make excuses for my poor academic performance, but would like to explain the circumstances. As a freshman, I understood that the rigors of taking 18hrs credit hours of class work would be challenging.
It makes a wall in front of us to prevent us move toward. We keep thinking "Should I do it? Or shouldn't I?". By reading "Anxiety: Challenge by Another Name" by Collier, I am impressed at his rule for himself:" do what makes you anxious; don't do what makes you depressed." Remembering back moments when I felt anxiety, there were so many times that it happened to me.
Attending High School is challenging in a way where you don’t know who you are have bad influence’s and as well good and you know what is good and bad for you. I have attended Gadsden High for the last past three years going to my fourth year and last, my grades have been up and down stress is the major thing when you are a senior and you had failed when you were a freshmen leaving all the things to last minute. I’ve failed f previously because I didn’t even care for my future so I just didn’t do anything I didn’t care if I passed or fail but when you are going into older age you see you’re self-different and you start getting prepared for what is called the “Real World”! You start changing you see you’re future starting to prepare for it looking at what you want to become to succeed in life be someone and for making your parents proud of you for them to see you finally did
It is hazardous for our society and it is hazardous for your happiness. It is only in learning to think for yourself that will lead you to true happiness. What is conformity? People’s attitudes and beliefs become influenced by other people as part of the process of conformity. It can take many forms, either something that happens quite openly like peer pressure or it can be a more subtle influence that takes place over a number of years.
Motivation And Emotions Motivation And Emotions Some people wonder around aimlessly trying to find what is that will give them just the push they need to complete certain tasks. We wonder how we are going to get certain tasks complete and when tasks are completed, we want to know how we are going to feel about the results. We all have certain things that make our day and keep our spirits lifted or lowered. All of these thoughts and questions have something to do with the emotions that we have and how we are motivated. The article that I chose explains emotions as a feeling or state involving thoughts, physiological changes, and an outward expression or behavior.
My ninth grade was pretty cool until the last week of school I let my mouth get the best of me and said some things that I really should’ve not said and because I did I earned the next semester at the alternative school. When school started back I was very sad because I had to go to the “bad” school with all the “bad” kids and I was very nervous. Once I got there it was pretty cool and I really enjoyed it because the classes were smaller and you got more one on one help. My grades went up and my mom decided that I should spend the rest of the year there, which really messed me up because they did not offer any elective classes only the basics . My eleventh grade year was also a disaster because of the struggle of passing my biology state test and I was really distracted and just wanted to go back to the alternative school but my mom and the principle would not send me back.
For many years I was scared to go to college because I thought I wasn’t college material. Hearing Capitan Mark Kelly speak about being an underachiever, and a “not so great” student really helped me see that light at the end of the tunnel. When final build up the courage with in myself, I enrolled into San Jacinto College. The only thing that stood in the way was that standardize test. I had to take the entry exam after five years of not being in school.
If I would invest the time needed to organize I would have received a better grade. English has never been my forte in high school; I failed one whole semester because I was infected with senioritis. My mentality was that I didn’t HAVE to do anything because graduation was just around the corner, but boy was I wrong. This set of mentality pushed me back in my senior year and it prohibited me from enjoying my last year as my friends were living it up at all the parties while I was home finishing up my online class as a result of my failure. Online classes required self determination and a lot time.
Is it not ironic then, that the very nature of teaching often makes us surrogate fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters? Students must be encouraged to do more than their best, for although it is clearly absolutist, we are all (or should be) capable of some intellectual development; achieving just enough to get by is a ‘cop-out’; we and our students should be challenged to grow. Completing my Bachelor’s
Student athlete roles have always been a problem. Some people say these athletes shouldn’t even be in school because their grades aren’t high enough. Others see a more sensitive view of the topic. I experienced this topic first hand from middle school though high school and for about a week of college. I believe it really is a problem.