Rewind

It’s safe to say that this semester didn’t go as planned. When classes first started i was organized and prepared for the work I had to do. I knew the next four months were gonna be different from the past four years of high school, but the road got bumpy and I let my car break down. I knew my hardest class was going to be English, essays weren’t really my forte but I believed I could handle it as long as i stayed organized and managed my time correctly, which is one of my biggest issues.

This class wasn’t exactly complicated or hard, everything was laid out in front of you to do. The issue was understanding it, and if you didn’t you had to communicate. One thing I noticed amongst my class is that  a good majority didn’t want to ask, we just stated our confusion and asked our questions to each other. Even though it did help, it wasn’t going to be every time we had an issue.

My original goal, not only for my classes but in life, was to stay on task. I felt that making sure I was up-to-date with whatever task I had to do was going to help out in the long run. Managing my time has always been something I wanted to work on, and I did well at first. I did my assignments the same day they were assigned and was able to keep a well balanced life. The next few years are going to be stressful, that much I’m sure of but in order to get through the next few years I have to make sure I don’t make the same mistakes I did in high school like I did in my first semester of college. The first thing I need to do in order to get back on track though is either fix my laptop or get a new one, both of which require me to get a job and that’s another thing I have add on to my already unbalanced lifestyle and adjust to it. 

I was hoping that this semester was going to go a lot better than it actually did, especially since I’m on a scholarship. I wanted to work on my writing most of all since essays and papers are going to play a big role in my grades for the next few years or maybe the next decade depending on my career path. I chose to come to Queens College to get a biology major and then work my way up to Med School, becoming a doctor is something I always wanted to do but it no longer sounds as appealing as it did before. My goal was to keep my grades up and get ready to batten down the hatches because the road to becoming a doctor, especially a specialist was a long one. Many times I wanted to deviate from this plan and choose another career but I always come down to this one. Now, though, I might be leaning towards nursing but I’m worried about how I’ll go from Bachelor’s in Biology to Nursing school since that’s not usually how it goes. I just hope that by the end of the Spring 2019 semester I have things more figured out.

I’m going to admit, luck wasn’t on my side the past couple months, mainly health and technology wise. Both are quite important in the stress that is one’s first semester in college. My left tonsil got swollen late August, so I had multiple doctor’s visits from August to October when I realized it wasn’t going to make a difference, which was also around the time my right tonsil decided to join in on the fun. The bad luck technology-wise happened three weeks into the semester when my laptop just died. Then my phone’s screen broke a couple weeks later in October, and then the phone broke again and stopped functioning in early November. I was without any actual smart device for a couple weeks.Technology wasn’t on my side the past couple months and I could only be at the library so long since I was sick. I regret to say that i let all that bad luck get the best of me. 

Towards the end is when it really started to get stressful, having to get all the work done on time which for one other class I wasn’t able to either. In the picture’s below you’ll see two of the many days I spent at the library the past couple weeks. You can’t see them but I was there with a couple of my fellow English 110 classmates, stressing over multiple things at once. It was an incredible experience but one don’t want to go through again, I expect to have a functioning laptop around the time next semester starts, that way I’ll be able to spend more time on my assignments without worrying about how angry my parents will be if i get home too late. 

I did learn a lot from this class, not only about writing but about the world. Not just from my professor but from my fellow classmates as well. It came from their own experiences and I felt like that taught me the most. I’m glad to have been put in a community with such amazing people because we developed a bond from that first English class when the Professor was running late and we all sat in awkward silence not knowing what to do. From the moment Nick broke the ice and introduced himself we all got very close. Whether it was because of our backgrounds, last name, music tastes or even having other classes together, we became very comfortable around one another and I felt as though that connection made it easier to get through the last couple months. I hope to still be able to see them in the next semester. 

 

Dance Community and English 110 of

Fall 2018