-The overall theme of the class ways to learn the ways to improve your college life as a whole. Every chapter in this book ties into this overall theme. The chapters in the book go into detail about how to improve in each area. We hit on a few of the more common chapters. One of these was the Persist chapter. This was about managing your college resources like your money and your debt. Another chapter was about Prioritizing. This focused on planning your time and reducing stress. The next chapter we went over was about learning style. We learned what our learning styles were and how to use them to our advantage. All of the chapters that we went over are very important issues that we deal with as college students. Going over these in class will help us become better at them in the future.
-I have many strengths as a learner. One of my strengths is learning visually. I am very much a visual learner. I like to be able to see what I am supposed to do rather than just be given a quick explanation. If I see what I am supposed to do, I pick it up very quickly. Another one of my strengths in learning is hands on. I pick up things better when I am able to get hands on experience with them. This is like doing a lab in chemistry. When you do an experiment in a class, you are forced to figure out what to do and can visually and mentally work through it. When we did the class activity about our learning style I learned about my strengths. I think this is a very good activity for all students to do. It reveals to them their strengths as learners. This is very beneficial to students.
-One of my major weakness as a learner is reading comprehension. Reading comprehension has always been one of my weaknesses ever since I was young. I can read just fine; I just can't remember all that I read. I wish that I was better in this area. Doing activities that challenge your ability can help improve it. An activity that would help my comprehension problem would be doing practice tests like on the ACT. Another one of my weaknesses is my procrastination problem. Being an avid procrastinator hinders your ability to learn. Students are often pressed for time and are forced to do things at the last minute and very quickly. There are a few things that I wish I was better at. Procrastination and reading comprehension is just a couple of them. I would also like to be able to pick things and ideas up quicker, be able to listen and take notes better, and have an active study habit.
-During this class I have learned many things. First of all, to be more outgoing. I think that once we all get to college we have to go through the change of getting outside of our comfort level. I have also discovered what my learning style is. I am more of a visual learner. This will help me very much in the future because I will not waste my time studying in a way that I do not learn easy. I have been taught to use my resources that are available. These resources include the Butler website, tutors, the learning support lab, and my peers. We have also learned how to find books and archives in the library which will be very valuable for doing research. I think that all of these skills are very important. They all tie into making my college career more successful. I think that the biggest thing this class did for me was to adjust into the college life. It taught me a little about a lot of things. The transition into this new life has been easier knowing the stuff I do now.
-I think the major topic for many of us was the chapter over Time Management. This is very prevalent in the lives of college students. Learning to manage your time is one of the greatest tools that can be taught. Along with many other students, I too have a problem with procrastination. The chapter about this talked about prioritizing your schedule. Doing what was most important first then working down the list. I also thought that the discussion about "copying with change" was very good. Change is what is happening with every student in the class so everyone is going through it. I did not believe the 'academic plan" was very meaningful. For some people who have it all planned out that’s good for them. However, for those students who are just experimenting with things to see what they are interested in are not trying to lay out their future. They take it one semester at a time. I think that having everything planned out does not give you any freedom to find something new in yourself.
-As a whole I think that the class worked pretty well. Something’s were better than others. I think that the subject of time management should be taught in this class all the time because it is one of the most important things a college student can learn. I also think that learning about the resources at you school is very vital to the success of the students. These such as how to research with the school system, tutors, and the other resources. I think that the academic plan should be dropped as a subject of this class, or at least not stressed upon so much. Most of the students are freshmen in this class and many of them how no idea what they want to do. Therefore, they do not know what they want to major in or classes that they want to take besides the general education classes. I think that my advice to a teacher of this course would be to treat the students as adults. Most of the things brought up in this class, students have been exposed to. They may not know everything about it but they are definitely educated.
-I think that students should be open minded when coming into this class. They should be open to the idea of trying new things. During this class you do many activities and have a lot of discussions. I think students should open themselves up a little and participate. Although this class isn’t the most interesting to some, it will still help you. Even if students only take one positive thing out of their experience in class it still is a success. They learned something that will help them in the future. This isn't a class that is very demanding. The assignments are not very hard. They involve a little thinking, time, and your opinion. I think incoming students should be positive about this course. With a positive attitude they will get more out of the class, and everyone else will too.
-There are a few major things that I will take form this class that will affect the way in which I live and work. I have been taught the importance on time management. Time management includes both prioritizing and procrastination. I think that after learning a few things from this course I have become better in both of those areas. I will also use my new found learning style to my advantage. Finding out what way you learn best will help you not only to learn more but learn more quickly. Another thing I learned is to step outside of your comfort level every once in a while. If people never do that then they never experience anything new or different. The discussions in class helped to improve this for me. The main idea of this class is to help new college students to be connected with the school they are at. This connection is both with other students and the resources that the school offers.
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