Learning Profile

Adjusting is not always the easiest thing but I was able to adjust to the culture of college pretty easily. Therefore it really wasn’t that big of a change for me. I am still living in my hometown, even though I will be transferring later on in college it just has not happened at this moment. I am still around most of my friends, and I am still among my family. The main differences from high school life to college life is that you get to pick your schedule, make your own decisions, and your teachers are not always nagging at you for you to get your homework in on time. Another difference would have to be that when the professors tell you when your assignments are due they really do not remind you about it until maybe the day before it is due. It just depends on the professor.
There are many goals that I wish to achieve but I have set the standard ones. Therefore I have set my goals so that I will know what I need to accomplish in the two years that I am here at Butler. I have also figured out some of the things that I will need for the degree that I am working towards. I want to achieve an Associate in General Study’s degree for the career that I want to go into. I would like to pursue the career as an Anesthesiologist or as a Nurse Anesthetist. I plan on finishing here at Butler then transferring to Newman University to get my Bachelor’s degree after that I will therefore have to transfer once again so that I can get my Doctorate degree or my Professional degree. This is going to be a long process but I am willing to work toward my goal. Therefore what I want to go into as my career.
I have always done pretty well at managing my money, and dealing with my debts. For example: I have had my checking account since I was a sophomore in high school. Another example would have to be my cell phone for instance. Because I have had it since I was in the seventh grade, and for the last three and a half years I have been paying my own bill. This ties in with managing money and debt due to if you do not pay your bill then your service could get shut off. If this happens it then shows lack of management of your money and your debts. My boyfriend is a great help when it came to my credit card. He helped me out by taking it away from me so that I would not have access to it. This was so I would not get into a great amount of debt with it. I know that I do have good credit though due to when I applied to get a Dell Preferred account and they told me that I was the only 18 year old that has been accepted for it so far. By being accepted for the Dell Preferred account I was able to buy my own laptop without the help from my grandmother or mother.
I was not the greatest at prioritizing my time before college. For example: I would be late to school in the morning and I would not always have my homework done on time. But I would at least get it in by the end of the day. Granted it was still late. When I was a senior at El Dorado High School, I then started to prioritize my time a little better. For instance: I was the SADD (Students against Destructive Decisions) President and I was in charge of the Halloween Dance and the After-prom. I had to get everything ready and get all of the equipment set up and have all of the sponsors before I was able to even say that it was a go for. That was something that I was not really expecting on doing my senior year because at the beginning of the year I was not president. It got handed down to me because of something that occurred that then caused the president before me to resign. One of my main struggles was that of getting all of my yearbook layouts done when they were due. But in the end I was able to finish that and also take one of my layouts to the state contest. With all of the experience that I have been able to come into contact with have helped me learn to prioritize my time better. I have gotten better at prioritizing my time even though I still procrastinate occasionally.
By taking reading fundamentals and doing speed reader in the learning lab it has helped me with both my reading and comprehension skills. I have always had problems with my reading. It has always been a struggle for me in general. I believe that the more reading that I do in class and the more reading that I do by myself will help me out in the end.
This class and my other classes have helped me to open up more as an individual. I really do not like to talk in front of the class but when you asked me to talk about Darfur I was able to do it even though I really did not know that much about it. I think that this and my other classes have helped me to learn and become an active thinker. I have learned a great deal this semester out here at Butler. I feel that I am good at studying, that I am pretty good at cramming information in when it s needed. I can’t always remember all of the information but if I look at the section that it was in then I would then normally be able to recall that information then. For others this could be helpful, especially if they are not that good at studying or taking tests. I have always been a very good at listener when it people want to talk to me. This is really helpful when it comes to my friends and family. Especially when they might need me the most.
With cultivating my listening skills it helped me with this blog. If I would have not listened throughout the entire class I do not think that I would have been able to fulfill my expectations as a student for this course. This also helped me with my memory because by taking notes in my head meant that I had to remember what went on throughout the entire class.
A little bit about me is that I have always been the shy one out of all my friends. Well and I was always the shortest sense I am only 4’ ft and 11” inches tall. Since I was always shy it has always been hard for me to express my feelings to anyone unless it is someone whom I know really well. One thing that isn’t that great is that when I have to present something in class this is because of how shy I am or how shy I used to be. Since I was in the Miss Prairie Port Pageant here in El Dorado for the past two summers it helped me to figure out who I was and it also helped me to overcome some of my fears. One thing that I hate doing the most is giving speeches or talking in front of a class. In this class it wasn’t all that difficult for me to do that, and I really do not know why. It was kind of odd, because when I went to talk I was shy at first then it like all of a sudden went away. This class has been difficult for me due to the fact that it demands a great deal of my personal thoughts, feelings and information about my personal life. By having to do all of the blog assignments and rubrics with all the questions that you gave us, it has helped me to open up even more than before. This not only shows up here at the college by with my boyfriend and around his friends. He is happy that I am opening up around his friends. Also by not knowing who will be in my classes and if I will know them or if I won’t is a struggle for me due to the fact that I am a shy and quite person. I am happy with myself that I am able to express myself and open up to other students and faculty more than I have in my past. This is a giant hurdle for me to overcome but at least it is getting better as the days go on. I enjoyed a great deal of the material from this class. It is a great help. Probably not only for me but for other students also.
This course is not one that I would choose as an elective. But perhaps if I would have had the option and wanted to take this course I would have been more open minded and done better at getting the things done at a better rate of knowledge. I have developed and learned many things from this class. I do think that this is a great class and it is also very helpful, especially to a college freshman. It was not one that I would have taken even though the instructor was great. She is an amazing individual, who also has a great character. Now I see where her children get it from.