Transitioning from high school to college
My first semester of college was a bit of a roller coaster. There were some major changes that I had to adapt to when moving into my dorm here at Defiance College. For example, the school work, being away from home, friendships, sports and time management overall was very hard to adapt to. In high school I had the opportunity to be in multiple sports and organizations. The work wasn't as hard but teachers were more reliable in high school. In college, it's like I had to do everything on my own in a specific time manner so that way it doesn't run into anything else that I would have to do.
I play tennis here at defiance for the fall and spring season. I decided to run track during the winter since there isn't tennis matches in the winter time. So, some people are able to play two sports in college if they spread it out and have enough time to do it. Since tennis is my main sport, I would go to tennis practice before track.
School work in college is more advanced than in high school because there are more papers that are needed to be done. The good thing about college is that I was able to set my classes at the times that worked best for me. In college, the work we have to do is more on the computer than being hand-written. Since I had the weekends available, I would use that time to do most of my homework. Also, in high school study table was at a specific time, we are able to pick a table for study table here. I would say note taking has been a tremendous help in college because it's easier to do book reports or chapter summaries on a specific reading.
In high school, making friends were a little bit easier because everyone was from Toledo. In college, we meet a variety of people that are from different states and countries. I had to speak up to meet people and become friends even with upper class-men. There were some changes in my friendships that I made over the past semester because of the choices they made as well. Overall, if I were to give advise for any new freshman, it would be to make time for what's important and means a lot to you the most. That is what I had to adapt to my first semester.
In chapter two of Hjortshoj's "Language and Learning", I would say listening, reading and writing will help make you an effective communicator because it will help us maintain and even adapt better for what we do in our everyday life. No matter what our majors are or what jobs we have in the future, we still need those three things to help us. It helps us in college our first year because that way we will already be used to the credentials of what we study.
I play tennis here at defiance for the fall and spring season. I decided to run track during the winter since there isn't tennis matches in the winter time. So, some people are able to play two sports in college if they spread it out and have enough time to do it. Since tennis is my main sport, I would go to tennis practice before track.
School work in college is more advanced than in high school because there are more papers that are needed to be done. The good thing about college is that I was able to set my classes at the times that worked best for me. In college, the work we have to do is more on the computer than being hand-written. Since I had the weekends available, I would use that time to do most of my homework. Also, in high school study table was at a specific time, we are able to pick a table for study table here. I would say note taking has been a tremendous help in college because it's easier to do book reports or chapter summaries on a specific reading.
In high school, making friends were a little bit easier because everyone was from Toledo. In college, we meet a variety of people that are from different states and countries. I had to speak up to meet people and become friends even with upper class-men. There were some changes in my friendships that I made over the past semester because of the choices they made as well. Overall, if I were to give advise for any new freshman, it would be to make time for what's important and means a lot to you the most. That is what I had to adapt to my first semester.
In chapter two of Hjortshoj's "Language and Learning", I would say listening, reading and writing will help make you an effective communicator because it will help us maintain and even adapt better for what we do in our everyday life. No matter what our majors are or what jobs we have in the future, we still need those three things to help us. It helps us in college our first year because that way we will already be used to the credentials of what we study.
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