Reflect on the Fall semester and the overall experience of your first semester at college.
Reflection Instructions
For this assignment, please reflect on the Fall 2023 semester, and your experience as a whole. For each question, please provide a few thoughtful, well constructed sentences.
Your First Semester
- Tell us how you have grown from the beginning of the semester to now.
I have kind of developed a study plan.
- What were your expectations for this year? Did this semester’s experiences meet your expectations? Explain.
Honestly, no. I thought I would have better grades this semester but I was so caught up in life and the change that I wasn’t taking school seriously. My expectations were that I would have good grades and overall be a great student.
- What is something you wish you knew 14 weeks ago?
To not procrastinate every time it gets hard and keep going.
Study Habits
- How much time do you spend studying for each class now vs. at the beginning of the semester?
I spend around 2-3 hours studying and at the beginning it would be from maybe 30 minutes to an hour, which is bad.
- How have your study habits changed?
For Chemistry I write my notes and do the practice questions that are on the e-textbook. With the site that the textbook is on it has a section where I can study for each chapter and practice equations there. With Sociology, it’s the same but with this I get it more so the chapter practice for this takes more time like 3-4 hours because I want to get it down.
- Tell us about a resource that you have used/learned about this semester that will assist you next semester.
Youtube. Especially for sciences and math. I think because I’m scared to ask for help from the professor I instead try to answer my questions through youtube and google. But I’ve been to the chemistry tutoring sessions the TA has and in the Chemistry building, it doesn’t really help though.
- What study habits/techniques will you use going into next semester?
Studying with my classmates and hopefully with a e-textbook the study sessions there.
Health Professions Learning Community
- This semester you were enrolled in at least SOC 201S, and HLTH 101. Many of you were also enrolled in CHEM 105N and CHEM 106N, and some of you were enrolled in HIST 104H with Professor White.
- On the surface these classes do not appear to be connected; however this semester each professor was intentional about drawing connections between content, and subjects discussed. Discuss the ways in which these courses are tied together.
All of the classes included Health professions and the connections to each subject. History and Sociology really connected together as they both mix together. With Chemistry, it connected with HLTH 101 because in the textbook, with each new chapter it introduced a Job in healthcare that would go well with each topic and what you could do with it.
Parallel Plan
- This semester we had presentations from different majors in the College of Health Sciences as well as from different majors on campus. This was to give you an idea for possible parallel majors to your current intended major.
- Which two other majors would you be most interested in? Why?
Nuclear medicine technology and Environmental Health. When Nuclear Medicine was being presented it seemed so interesting to me as it was to help with finding tumors or cancer which is something that is important to save people’s lives. With Environmental health, it involved percentages and math which I like but shows what is good and bad for the environment and people.
- What benefit is there to having a parallel plan (or two) in place?
For if you don’t get into the Nursing program or if you feel that Nursing isn’t the right fit for you then you can go back and see which one is your next step.
- How could one or both of these two majors benefit your current intended major?
They’re both still in the health community which I want to be in. I feel that I want to stay in the health field because I get to help people either way which is my passion. Environmental Health, Nuc Med, Nursing all are hands on and I am willing to do either one of these three. It is a passion to help people and communities. I was raised in an environment with people who do something for the community and especially in the healthcare field so I wanted to do the same and keep it going.