Dear Reader

In beginning of the semester, my goal was to achieve 95s or higher in all my classes. However I did not achieve that goal in most of my classes, I believe it was because of change and sudden freedom that I expected less from myself, instead of reviewing what went down in class that day or studying for a test. I busied myself with useless things on campus and at home. Even though, I followed my goal of achieve 95+ in all my classes feverishly in the beginning of the semester, my drive that I gathered during my summer vacation and my excitement for college just died down along with the weather. I am not blaming anyone or anything besides myself for letting go of my goals that I set out to achieve, even though I had my ups and downs in my family during this semester in college I do not wish that to be the excuse I am not doing well. Coming to Hunter College is an experience I need, in order to understand what I really want in the future, and it is not lazing around and procrastinating but aiming for a goal, an ideal, and striving hard to reach it.
During my fall semester in Hunter, I really tried hard during in the beginning, listening attentively during lectures and reviewing my notes after class. However I realized that after a while my drive just died away, I started taking this form of education for granted. I realized at times when I should have been studying, I was just having fun instead. I did not do all the parts in becoming a successful college student like utilizing the facilities and taking my education in to my own hands. Unlike in the high school classes, where we have homework that would check up on the materials explain in class. The college classes only used exams as an evaluation of what I learned. It was really hard because I would have no idea what to study on, and when I finally have confidence that I will do well on a test, the result says the opposite. I just realized a week before the final exams that I really had to straighten out my priorities, they were crooked and I needed to focus.
Forensic Biology was my worst subject this fall semester; I expected to learn a lot of forensics during this class. However I underestimated the amount of biology and data that were tested, and the exams count as a large portion of the grade. I’m really not sure what the outcome for my final grade will be.
Pre-calc 125 was a little better because it took place in small classroom and more time for me to ask questions when I didn’t understand, there were also homework due every other day or so, which helped me tremendously because it helped me review before exams. I’ve realized that I’m a horrible exam taker so I took my time to review before them; however often in this pre-calc class I’ve always reviewed the wrong concept for a question that was going to be on the exam.
I have always said that I want to be a nurse because even though I wanted to be a doctor my grades will never let me be one, even now I doubt that I will become a nurse. I am just hoping that during my first college year I will work really hard and get the grades I want, and then get into a nursing program offered at the school.
English:
I am a good idea creator; I have all these ideas in my head about what should be put down on text. However it doesn’t get translated into words, I think even though I’m a good free writer, my final pieces always have some grammar mistake that I didn’t catch. What’s good about being a good writer is to have ideas down on paper and organized, it will help me to be articulate. I learned a lot of aspects in having a good fictional piece, like in order to engage a reader in a story and have it relatable. The ideas presented in my story needs to be universal and emotionally realistic. I think the piece of fictional writing I enjoyed the most would be the last assignment Sudden Fiction, because it allowed us to create a story using all ideas that we learned in class. It would have a big contrast to our first assignment of the year. I think all concepts are understandable to me, I would use the techniques taught in class and use it in my writing. I plan on working on my fictional writing in my journal, as free write as often as possible, because letting my ideas flow out would be great.
By end of the year, I would hope to be an accomplished free writer. I will always writing in my journal at least once every other day, and hopefully get some of the ideas from free write on to paper and final draft. I hope to understand what my real goals are from this pre-college program, I will work and try my best next semester in achieving my goal of 95 and above in all my classes.
This portfolio represents my adversity as a writer, and my ever changing knowledge of fictional writing and applying it to my own.