What Do I Think of College Now

When I think about college I think about diversity, making new friends, learning about new people, and hard work. This month of being at The University of Tennessee at Knoxville I meet many new friends and started to build a family within the UT LEAD program. Also, in being here I have many diverse people and shared some things in common with them. I learned about their history and background information and most of them were like mine; Father not in the picture when growing up, poor family, or maybe even a 1^st generation college student. This really opened my eyes and made me see that I wasn’t alone in my situation. I could find someone else to talk to and have him or her relate to my problems. College is about helping yourself and each other. One of the things they say in orientation is look to the left and look to the right, that person sitting next to you may not be here the next semester. But I think what they did not stress was that person may also end up being your friend or someone that may help you in the future or through your college career. Now that I have entered college I see the world different than before. I see a truckload of opportunity. It is all about how willing and hard you want to work for it.

Managing Stress

Managing Stress can be even more stressful if you don’t know how you manage it. Here are some ways to do it; coping with stress, recognizing stress, reducing stress, and analyzing stress. First you must recognize stress. You can do this by seeing if your stress is health or medical, mental or emotional, or behavioral. This can range for headaches to dryness of the throat. If you are having over 5 signs of stress then you are overly stressed. Now you need to analyze your stress and see how you can make it better. Think about what stresses you out, why does it stress you out, and how you can stop it from stressing you out. Now develop a game plan to reduce stress. This can be done by music, breathing exercise, relaxation routine, visualization, clearing your mind, energy-release activities, talking it out, and laughing. This all can help you manage your stress better.

Memory Principles

Controlling memory can be a hard thing to do. Most people don’t know how their brain functions. But memory is all about making an effort to remember things, controlling the amount of information your taken, strengthening your neural traces, and allowing time to solidify your pathways. To remember something you must 1st give an effort to remembering. Meaning if you want to remember something you most 1st intent to remember. If you enter the class not trying to or thinking about remembering then you want remember. Next in line is controlling the amount of information given. You have to be selective of what the teacher is saying, more than likely they will put more action into words and information that you need to know. Strengthening your neural traces means you most recite, visualize, and associate the teacher’s information with something that can help you remember. Last but not least, is allowing time to solidify pathways. This means sitting down and thinking about the information giving and practice using it. Doing this will help you get better use of your memory.

Critical incident

When I was younger I got into many fights. I always got suspended from school, and when I got suspended from school I fought at day care. As I started my transition from elementary school to middle school, I begin to think about what I want to do with my life. Did I really want to fight everyday for the rest of my life? I also started to learn that when fighting in middle school you will be sent to juvenile detention, and I didn’t want that. So there I begin to think about how I could stop fighting and control the things that make me mad. What steps could I take to gain better control of myself? I begin to do more critical thinking than I ever did in my life, so that I could have a successful future and learn how to solve my problems without fighting. From then until now I haven’t had a fight.

Strong Interest Inventory

I believe that my Strong Interest Inventory test unlocked my enter thoughts. My test results said that I would like Military and Athletics the most and I might like being an elementary school teacher. This test really made me think about the school teacher part. I always said that I never wanted to be a school teacher. Then I realized that all the jobs that worked, I always work with kids. I used to work at a place with a teacher in the classroom where I helped the teacher with explaining things to little kids. My second job was at an amusement park, and I worked in the playground and played with the kids for 12 hours a day and I loved it. The Military and Athletics part stood out to me, because the military was always my back up plan if college doesn’t workout. Also, I love sports and love to workout and stay in shape, and when I can’t workout, I go crazy. I believe this test was great and gave me a better understanding of me.

College Essentials and College Etiquette

Entering college for the first time can be a confusing and complicated if you have no one to help you. Here are some tips to help you with college essentials and college etiquette. First you must know your college essential resources. These are things such as your college catalog, student handbook, schedule book, and syllabus. These are the key tools to knowing your job as a college student and your college protocols and etiquettes. Other important informational resources are your academic advisor and student services. Using these two will help you register for a new term with ease. Academic Advisor or there to help you in the course of your year and give you advise on the class you need to take for your major. Remember that they can’t make you take a class its all your choice. It’s your education and your money you’re spending. They are just here to help guild you if you let them.

Test taking strategies

Taking tests can be a difficult task if you are not a good test taker. Here are some strategies to make taking test easier. Some great ways to prepare for finals or just normal test are by budgeting your time in taking the test and predicting the test questions. Budgeting your time is just managing your time to make sure you don’t stay on one question to long and making it so you will have enough time to answer all questions to the best are your ability. Predicting your test questions just means you have to know what your test is going to be to plan out the best outcome. These test consist of true/false, multiple choice, fill in the blank, and matching. True and false test or always-50/50 chance you get it right or wrong. These test can be tricky always remember if one word in the statement is wrong then the whole thing is wrong. On multiple choice questions remember to read all answers and choose the best one. For fill in the blank questions you much talk yourself and chance the best answer you can come up with. In matching make sure you read every last word before putting an answer and cross out the ones you used. By using these strategies you will have an easier time taken test.

Principles of Research

Researching is basically all you are going to do in college. While in college there are two things that you need to know about writing your papers. Never plagiarize, and always cite your sources. Reference Materials, books, Internet, newspapers, and interviews are all sources that you can use that need citing. Not citing your resources that you have used will make you lose points on your papers. But plagiarizing a paper will be an automatic 0, and maybe even get kick out of college if it’s a final college. So be sure to cite your sources. He must list the author, title of the article, and the date it was written. If it is a book then you must state the volume of the book or newspaper. If you need help looking for resources or organizing your citations then visit your nearest library. They will be more then happy to help you with these.

Processing information from a textbook

Processing information from a textbook is something you have to do through out college. Whether you buy books, borrow books, and/or read books. This is something you need to learn. All textbooks are filled with questions. First thing first, survey the questions. While you are surveying the questions think about the way your teacher teaches and what he/she focuses on the most. This can be a tool that can help you learn more about what is in the book and it can help you get ahead in class. Next you need to focus on the information you are studying and make sure you; read, question, recite, reflect, review, and summarize the information you are reading. All these that are listed are sure ways to help you on your journey to success. Training is all it takes. So train yourself to do the following process and start on your road to success.

Setting Goals

Setting goals is one of the greatest things that a person can do in their life. While in college I believe this is like best thing to do. Setting goals for difficult classes is a great thing to do. Difficult classes can give you much stress. You can solve this problem by identifying your problems and write them down. Then set a meeting with the teacher to talk about your problems. You should start setting goals that are in small reach from you so the big goal of graduating won’t seem so far away. Plan out your classes and goals for those classes like; the grades you want for the classes and how you plan to get them. When setting your goals, be sure to make them all the classes you need and want to take. Set these goals and you will be able to graduate on time with your class.

Learning Styles

Learning is the key to life. If you are not able to learn then you will not make it in the life without help from someone. The best thing to do is to find out how you learn best. There are several different ways of learning. There are Sensory modes, hemispheric dominance, Multiple Intelligences, and social. Sensory modes consist of auditory, visual, and kinesthetic. Hemispheric Dominance means which side of the brain you think most with. Which are you left brained or righted brained? There are many tests you can do to see which you are. Multiple Intelligences consist of linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, musical, body-kinesthetic, interpersonal, and interpersonal. Social can be alone or in groups. Learning the way you learn best will help you in the future. You will learn more ways to study and remember the information from your teacher. So look up all these different types of learning and see which is best for you.

Time Management

Time Management is very important. Time is one thing in this world that you never get back. This is one thing that most of my college peers has a problem with. They have trouble planning work, shopping, studying, parties, group events, meeting friends, eating, paying bills, pick up from school or day-care, having fun and sleeping. One way they could solve this problem is by scheduling the thing they have to do with the things they want to do. You can sit down one day and map out tomorrow and the next day. By planning for the next day it would be a good thing to have a date book. A date book is just a book with dates in it that will help you plan your to-do list. Scheduling is the best thing to do in all your college life. Doing this will benefit you in ways such as; being on time for class or events, having time to study, time to hang with friends, eating, and sleeping. Planning these things out is the best thing to do in your college life.

How to process information from lectures

In processing information from lectures there are four things you need to know. You need to know have to gather the information giving, learn how to analyze the information giving, create new ideas with that information, and acting out on that information. Something else that can help it is what I like to call the RQR3S; and what this stands for is record, question, recite, reflect, review, and summarize. In order for you to learn anything you have to record it. Record basically means write or type notes the teacher talks about or has giving. After recording the notes ask questions about them. Most teachers would be more than happy to answer your question. Remember know question is a dumb question. After you question the teacher you need to recite what was giving. This is a step to help you remember what was said in class and is use to help you remember. Once you have recited the information giving, now is the time to reflect. Reflecting is just taking your time to think about what all you have learned. Next is the time to review. Reviewing is just going back over all the steps you have went through. Last but not less, is summarizing. Summarizing is just to write a short statement about what you have went over and learned. All theses steps seems like much work, but once you do it and make it routine it will be of great help to you and your future habits of processing information from lectures.

How to think Critical

Critical Thinking always starts off with a problem. The thinker then begins to gather information about the problem. Step two the thinker determines his or her options and weights the knowledge giving. Next he chooses among his options and goes take action. Next he reviews decisions and the consequences. My tip is that you think critically about college and your schoolwork.

You will have to think about if you want to go to class or not, and if you want to do your homework early or right before it is due. You need to sit down and think about if you want to fail or pass. The outcome of you not going to class is that you may miss something important the teacher says and it may be on the test. The consequence of that choice is you failing the test. If you show up to class the consequence is you will have a better understanding of the work and have a better idea of what is on the test. Doing your homework is also important. If you rush to do your work late minute you will end up getting more problems wrong than you would have doing it early. If you do it early it will 1 less thing you have to worry about, and you will have more time for studying or the have fun. These are just some of the things you need to have critical thoughts about it step by step so you can have to outcome you want in your life.

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