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Learning Record A2 9/7/2004 I have never really thought about where I stand as a reader and a writer. As awful as it sounds, I suppose that up until this point I have gotten by doing the minimum amount of work required for a decent grade. That is, I only seek to comprehend what I read to a certain point then I don’t look any further. The same applies to my writing, I only dig down deep enough to write for a certain grade. For this course to be worthwhile to me, this approach will not be adequate. I really would like to get as much as I can from this course especially because it is so different then all the other courses I’ve had up until this point. As far as the topics of this course, I find them interesting. Hopefully this will help me to apply myself in the reading of the material and also in writing about the various topics. The goals for the course also seem to be very worthy of my pursuit. I hope to really push myself in this course, to take on things I may not necessarily be comfortable with and to grow in my reading and writing from this experience. I also really hope to learn something about myself from all of this. The results from the psychological type testing definitely provided some information about myself that can help me to succeed in this course and also to do better in all of my other classes. There were some points in the results of my testing that may help me in tackling this course and others. My reaction to stress is one of the biggest ones. The test pointed out, and this is very true of me, that I probably tend to waver and seek out immediate gratification when put under a lot of stress. I found this to be extremely relevant to this course in that there are a lot of large reading assignments to tackle as well as large projects. This will definitely be an area I need to work on and hopefully work through in order to be successful in this course. This point is also very applicable to my work habits in general. Hopefully now that this aspect of my work habit has been pointed out to me I can try to be aware of the problem and not succumb to it as easily. If anything it is at least an area for me to focus on over the semester. Also mentioned was the problem of a tendency to abandon my passion for something that more practically fits a goal. This is one aspect I would really like to take head on over the semester. Hopefully I will be able to fight this one off and really write about something I care about, probably for the first time in my college career. This is something that I need to overcome not only for this course but for myself in my life. This will help me in this course, in the rest of my education and just in general. I know these are two big things to keep in mind but I really do think that if I really work at these things a big difference will be seen in my writing. I think that these things are worthy of my attention and that there is a lot of growth to be had on my part especially in these two areas. At this point I have a long way to go to get where I want to be. In my opinion my reading and writing skills can be pushed a lot further and hopefully from this point on they will be. |