What I Am Now
Assignment OneBeginning of the semester reflection.
Experiencing college during the first semester often leads to academic, social, and personal changes. It can be constructive to spend some time reflecting on the person you are now as compared with when you entered college. In this assignment, you are to reflect on your first semester and identify your successes and your disappointments with your first semester. Consider both your course work and your co-curricular activities. Note that success and disappointment may not necessarily be reflected in your final grade in a course. Consider what changes you might make in your approach to your college education and what benefits you would hope to get from them.
Possible areas to consider include
- your top priority-what you would change if you could only change one thing
- study habits, time management, and your learning style
- what you can do to maximize the likelihood of future successes
- the support services that Allegheny offers
- your approach to solving problems related to course content or to life events-does it work or do you need to consider alternative methods?
- your goals for college-have they changed. How? Why?
Before you write the paper, review the advising assignment you wrote at the beginning of your first semester describing your expectations about college and your goals for college.
After reflecting on your last semester, changes in your perspective, and changes you would like to make in your approach to your Allegheny experience, write a three to five page paper discussing these changes and steps you intend to take to achieve your goals this semester. Your paper should not simply be a list of responses to each of the items listed above-they are intended only to stimulate your thinking about your first semester experience-it should be a self-evaluation of and self-reflection on the first semester experience that leads to the development of informed goals for your second semester. Depending on your experience, more or less emphasis will be placed on academic, personal, and social change.
Schedule a meeting with Professor Carr by Friday February 1st. Bring a copy of the paper to the meeting for discussion. And make sure that you keep a copy for your own records.
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