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Lessons Learned |
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Learning is an important thing for everyone to do on a daily basis. I enjoy learning as much as I can possibly learn. I would have to say my most important lessons learned during this academic year would be how to maintain a well organized schedule, show up to class even if the teacher does not show up, and turning in work on time. These three lessons I have had to learn the hard way. I believe that these are some of life lessons that most people cross paths with in one way or another. Staying well organized and turning work in on time go with each other but are two different lessons I learned in two different ways. |
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Staying well organized means having orderly structure to your life and the things that you need to achieve. I used to be very unorganized because things were easy for me. I never had a lot of things at one time that needed to be done, so I never tried to organize anything until this year. Coming to college opened my eyes to becoming organized and being on a tight schedule. At first I had to learn how to organize the times of my classes with my work schedule. After I achieved that, I had to make sure I had schedule set times for studying for all my classes. I felt writing in a day planner or calendar could really help me visually to see when I had free time for things. After putting in my school and work schedule, form there I could plug in times for homework and studying for all the classes. Before, I would put everything back-to-back and end up not doing well on a test because the information from one class ran into the other just because I would study for so long. I know now that things need to be spaced out and breaks need to be plugged into my schedule so that I don't ever overwhelm myself. |
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Another lesson I learned the hard way was skipping class because I was told the teacher was not coming. I chose to listen to another student when they told me our teacher was not going to be in class so we did not have to go. This was a bad decision on my part. I chose not go to class and found out I missed an assignment that was left for us to do. I could not turn in the assignment later because it was an in-class assignment that was do at the end of that class period. I was, of course, upset with only myself for listening to the other student. I had to take a zero on the easy assignment that I could have done if I had just gone to class. Now I know for the future to go to every class no matter if the teacher is present or not. |
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The third important lesson I learned this year is turning assignments in on time. This ties in with both of my other important lessons learned. First, it ties in with staying organized because when you are organized then you will know when an assignment is due, and you can have it done by the due date. Also it ties in with my other lesson because not coming to class because the teacher is not there does not mean an assignment will not be due that day. Both of these things happened to me. I did not show up to class because the teacher was not there but there was an assignment still due. |
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These three lessons were my most important lessons learned this year. I hope by people reading this maybe they will not make the same mistakes as I have. Being organized, to me, is one of the most important life lessons everyone will have to learn. The other two lessons,to me, were important but not as important as staying organized. I think those two lessons could have been bypassed by making better decisions for myself. |
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