I will be the first to admit that the presentation on Financial Success was not quite what I had anticipated. The topic is also not conducive to blogging. So this is the topic, staying in the vein of success!
What have you been doing to ensure your academic success? Social? Have you joined organizations? What are you most proud of thus far in your time at Mizzou? How are you setting yourself up now for future success, both in your career and life? How are you staying on top of all of your obligations? Feel free to expand on these topics and add your own, but please answer the questions at hand. 250 Word Minimum as has come to be expected.
Respect yourself out there.
Jake
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So the question at hand is how am I ensuring my academic success, which had me thinking, how am I ensuring my academic success? Here lately, I feel as if I have been walking around in a daze or that I’m just simply here at Mizzou, going to class and existing. I haven’t embraced Mizzou just yet and only focused on how much I missed home and other non-important things. So I guess after all of that, to ensure my academic success is to embrace the environment that surrounds me. That being said, I hope to take in all this campus has to offer and I feel that once I do that I’ll become happier and I’m sure that happiness will make me want to put more effort into my academic success.
Socially, I feel as if I’m doing pretty okay, but there is always room to expand and grow. I want to step out of my comfort zone a little more, maybe I’ll go join a student group for Asian-American students and learning more about their organizations and what they offer to the campus…I know different but how else can you learn about the world beyond your window. However I have joined two other organizations such as Target Hope and The National Association of Black Journalist (NABJ) their both wonderful organizations that do a great job in creating a family vibe which is such a key factor for me and not to mention I’m at my happiest when I’m around the people in these organizations.
What I’m most proud about thus far into my time at Mizzou, is because I’ve made mistakes and sometimes I get upset if I feel like I am not pushing myself hard enough to reach my goals, but I’ve learned to allow myself to make mistakes and not beat myself up over things that I don’t do or get right the first time. I will admit that I am not on top of all of my obligations and I’ve slipped lately but everyone does at first, but tomorrow is a brand new day to start over and start right.
As far as my future and success, I am not clearly sure where I’m headed, but I know I’m on a road to something greater than where I am now. Which is comforting because it means that I’m not completely lost. I don’t worry to much about my future, because I know no matter the outcome, I’m going to be more than okay. I know that I will always eventually end up in a happy medium and that is enough for me.
To ensure my academic success I have worked on being productive with my time after all the procrastinating I did throughout high school. I try to keep up on my reading for my classes and I enjoy using the study rooms to read, study, and socialize with my friends. I also make sure I attend all of my recitation and lecture classes so that I will receive all the information I can in order to perform to my fullest potential on exams. I am most proud of how I’ve improved my study habits. I keep a calendar planner up to date with exam dates, quizzes, and assignments due. I also love to make lists, which keeps me organized and less stressed. The wonderful rec center is also a retreat for me and I think it has helped with my academic success because it lets me get away from the stresses of academics. Socially I have met a lot of new people through different friends I have. I participated in a coed rec soccer league and on the College Ave alanche I met a few new people. I think I am setting myself up for future success because right now I am learning how to live with another person and share my space. I am learning more about compromise and how to deal with different types of people that I will also encounter in my future. The people I am meeting now will hopefully be lifelong friends. I actually enjoy attending some of my classes because what I’m learning is so interesting. I hope this carries over to my career when I’m working in a field I truly enjoy. I am currently taking a nutrition class because I am considering majoring in nutritional sciences as well as journalism…but I’ll see where that takes me. Attending a school with such a highly regarded journalism program will help me to have success in journalism because I know I’ll be learning from such great professors and will be prepared to enter the field.
After being here for a month and a half, I finally feel like I’m getting adjusted to life here at Mizzou. Coming from so far away, I had a hard time adjusting at first. It was weird coming from a small town where I knew everyone, to here when I knew nobody. Academically, I feel like I’ve done pretty well. The hardest part for me has been taking the time to study for tests because I rarely did that in high school. I’ve kept myself very organized to ensure that I make it to every class and finish all assignments. I feel like I’ve gotten myself off to a very solid start.
So far, I haven’t joined any organizations. I looked into it, and picked out a few that I would be interested in, such as Big Brothers Big Sisters and some Honors groups, but I haven’t actually joined anything yet. I think I’m going to try to get involved with something second semester after I’ve adjusted to the rest of college life.
The thing I’m most proud of so far is how well I’ve adjusted to the overall college lifestyle. I have had relatively no trouble adjusting to living on my own. I’ve really enjoyed being able to be completely in charge of doing what I what to do when I want to do it. I’m usually a person who takes a while to adjust to new environments, so the fact that I’ve made such a smooth adjustment is reassuring to me, especially considering that it’s only going to get better!
Staying in the vein of success thats sounds nice! To ensure my academic success I been in contact with the student success center. The student success center is something like a problem solver, well it is a problem solver. I can only speak on my behalf that the student success center indeed help students with their concerns in a class to fully understand and grasp the knowledge given to them.It is a place where you can get tutoring in almost every subject on the college campus. If you need help in a class that tutoring is not offered, the student success center will most definitely try to find someone to help. Within the student success center you can get advice from you peers, staff members, graduate students, and even sometimes faculty they are all there for you to succeed, if they were not why would they work in a place name Student Success Center? Also to ensure my academic success I attend study halls that my organizations provided for its members. The Study Halls are held in the library mostly on the second floor, The aim of the study halls is to allow a student the opportunity to not only stay caught in his or her classes but also to get additional help from students whom already passed the course. The very beneficial to time management because I study for my class all at one time which in turn allows me more free time.
Socially, I am okay. Well since the beginning of school I have became less social, so to speak, since classes started and my stress level increase, however I manage my time better so I will not become overwhelmed. I am a person who like to talk and have fun, they call me a social butterfly but I hate that term it sound so weird. Im trying to think of something that has increase me being social and I would have to say being involved with organizations here on campus.
Before I even attended the University of Missouri Columbia I already had in mind the two organizations I planned on being a member of, which are Target H.O.P.E and NABJ. Target H.O.P.E is a student run organization that began in the chicagoland area with the high school students and as the students went on to college the organization followed. To really understand Target H.O.P.Es aim and mission you will have to sit in on one of the meetings. NABJ, The National Association of Black Journalist, from its title you could conclude who the target audience is, however there are organizations like this one that target different ethnic backgrounds, like the NAAJ National Association for Asian Journalist. In the NABJ its a great opportunity for networking and exposure to journalism. Just last night the members of NABJ had a discussion with graduate students and students in their career that allow the member to ask questions and get their insight into things concerning them. I really enjoy the organizations I am involved with a hopefully sometime next year I can be on the executive board. I recently joined LBC Gospel Choir! Im so excited to sing with them at various locations in the columbia area.
With staying on top of my course demands in all my class and being involved with organizations I love, I am setting myself up for future success both in my career and in life. After college life continues and the people you meet now, here at the university will be your business partners. So it is always a good idea to never be nasty to another person in life because you never know what the future holds.
I didn’t know quite what to anticipate, academically, when I came to Mizzou. I had heard that college was a lot harder than high school, and that I was going to have to work much harder to keep a high grade point average. The first few weeks of school didn’t seem to be hard at all, but once it came to taking tests I felt overwhelmed. However, despite all the pressure college tests have had on me so far, I’ve gotten into some good study habits and feel like I’m doing pretty well.
Socially, the FIG helped me a lot. I’ve gotten to know a lot of people on our floor, and even though we are all different, we get a long great with each other. It’s nice having classes with the same people so I don’t feel overwhelmed when I walk into any lecture halls.
For this semester I’m trying not to get too involved. I wanted to get acclimated to my classes and the new setting first, but I want to join some soon.
There isn’t one particular thing I am proud of myself for so far. I feel like I’ve just gotten so lucky with the group of friends I have made, and the entire college experience I’ve had so far. I love all of my classes, and my professors are all very smart and helpful. My roommate and I get along perfectly, same with my suitemates. I came from really far away, so I thought the transition would be a bit tough. As much as I miss Nevada, I really love it here at Mizzou and there is just no other place I would rather be.
Although not much time has passed since I moved to Columbia, I strongly feel as if I have expanded my academic and social mind. When it comes to academic, college is far from what high school was. Although I was much more stressed out in high school due to extracurricular activities, class rank, GPA, and overall competition with my peers, I didn’t truly care about school outside of school. Since classes began at Mizzou, though, I care. I study for all my tests and do all my homework. I have been happy with my study habits thus far but hope to improve them throughout the year.
Socially, I have learned a lot about people who have grown up in completely different ways than I did, and because of that I have matured. I feel as if I am now more accepting toward everyone. This, I would say, is what I am most proud of thus far at Mizzou. I always make sure there’s time in the day to talk to my roommate and suitemates, along with other friends. I believe without some socializing, you are not fully taking advantage of college. Social skills are important. I haven’t gotten too involved yet, but I joined a recreational soccer team. Although we were terrible, we had a lot of fun. It was a great bonding experience. I am hoping to get more involved with journalism next semester by working for MOVE or the Maneater.
Right now I am setting myself up for future success in my career by staying focused on what I want my future career to be. I am working hard in my classes and keeping in mind what I want to happen after I graduate. Being at the best journalism school in the country, I feel as if I have everything in front of me, I just need to reach out and take hold of it. For success in my life, I plan on making life-long friends and learning more about myself.
I stay on top by my obligations by keeping a schedule of what I need to do and cross things off when I get them done to reassure myself I am accomplishing things. Also, I try to keep my priorities straight and be fair to each obligation. Also, I am reading the book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, which is a huge motivating factor in my life.
Success has been something that I have been trying to strive for a long time. I had a rough academic career in high school, especially freshman year. So when college came rolling around, I wanted to change how I prepared for school, and start on a whole new leaf. Academically, I have been trying to organize time where I can just work on my homework without being distracted, which is very hard. I have done very well on most of my quizzes and test which must be a sign that I am working pretty hard.
Socially, I have gone out of my way to try meeting new people. However, that does not mean that I stopped talking to my friends from high school. Twenty-one students from my high school came to the great Mizzou, and I keep in see those I want to see on a weekly basis. Although meeting new friends is great, I am one who likes to keep onto old friends also, so I have been chatting with friends back home also. But the FIG has helped me meet a lot of new people, and I feel like ones freshman is like a tree because one meets one person, and they introduce one to more people, and so on so forth.
I feel like getting involved in college is a lot harder than in high school because everything is so spread out, and if one wants to join something, one has to go out of their way to find it. Organizations normally don’t just pop up in front of most students. So far, I have gotten myself involved with student residential life. I am part of RHA, and I am the External Committee Chair, which I get paid $200 a semester. I am also the treasurer for CARS and the vice president for 4th floor government. I am also potentially joining a fraternity second semester, so I can get more involved with school.
The one thing I knew I really needed to improve on coming into college was my study habits. I believe I have improved a little on this, but I really need to work harder on making sure I do all the readings and whatnot so I can say more confidently that I am ensuring my academic success.
As for the social aspect of college life, I feel I am doing pretty well there. I am doing a good job making sure my social life gets out of hand and interferes with the academic part of college. I believe I've made many good choices, I hang out with some great friends who make good decisions and accept me for who I am, so I believe I have exceeded my social expectations by a long shot. I have not joined any organizations thus far, but I have taken initiative in making an intramural soccer team with my friends and now I am joining a flag football team.
What I am most proud of so far here at Mizzou is the friendships I have made so far. I believe they are great ones that will last for a long time and I am shocked that I could make great friends this quickly.
I think I am setting myself up for future success by staying on top of my classes and actually working on doing the work I need to do to continue pursuing my career in journalism. I may have not joined the Maneater or something like that but I know that before I can even think about writing for the paper I need to make sure I maintain the grades so I can actually BE in the journalism school before I get ahead of myself and try writing.
I believe I am staying on top of my obligations by scheduling when I should do what. I have realized I have plenty of free time and there is no excuse for me to not get my work done, so logically if I have the time, why not do it?
So I can't really say that we have been here long enough to really see how well I have been doing with academics. I think just being here at college is a start. I did not have to study much in high school so I have had to make a big adjustment here. Right now I am getting into a studying habit that works for me. This is where I need to start to be successful with academics. I have passed some tests and failed one, but i have learned what different teachers expect from me. Sometimes I feel very lost sometimes. Sometimes I don't know what I want to do, but I'm sure that hard work will lead me in the right direction. I want to be able to get into medical school. From there I want to become a doctor so that I can travel to other countries and help the sick. I have big goals so I realize I'm going to have to work hard to get there. I have an appointment with my advisor tomorrow so that I can figure out what kind of classes I need to take.
I have joined a sorority, Kappa Kappa Gamma. I love it so much. I have met so many great girls through it and it allows me to get involved in helping the community which I love to do. I usually try to meet people in my classes too. I just met a really sweet girl in pysch class the other day by just saying hi when she sat down. I think it is very hard to meet people here just because the campus is so big. I will be happy when I am able to find those people that are a lot like me. College is a lot different and harder than I expected and it has taken a lot of getting used to. I still need to get used to being here. It's tough!
To ensure my academic success, I’ve made sure to set aside time for studying, checking my email, and going to study sessions. My suitemates and I study together, even when we don’t have the same class. It helps to have other people to keep you committed to doing your homework and setting aside time for reading. I’ve also made a habit of checking my email routinely (although I often end up on Facebook at the same time). Study sessions also prove helpful. It’s a little extra effort to get back out in the evening to do optional schoolwork, but the professors usually give very helpful information or pointers for the test.
I’ve joined Sigma Phi Lambda, which is a non-Panhellenic Greek organization. I feel like it’s keeping me involved—I definitely don’t sit around my dorm room as much, which is a good thing. I’m setting myself up for success by trying to stay up-to-date on journalism school information. I also feel like keeping a planner and practicing organization skills is a good way to set myself up for success. My planner and phone calendar are the ways that I stay on top of my obligations. I also make a lot of lists and Sticky Notes that help me keep track of the things I need to do each day. Between my planner, my phone, and my notes to myself, I stay organized and rarely miss an obligation, an assignment, a study session, or a social activity. Keeping a balance between social and academic activities is definitely important.
To be honest, I don't really think I've been doing much to ensure my academic success. I keep telling myself to go to the Student Success Center, but in reality, I never do. Kinda like how I keep promising myself I'm going to go to the Rec Center, and keep putting it off. I really do mean to though! One of these days... However, my social success as been a far greater accomplishment. (God doesn't that just speak volumes about my values...*sigh*) I've taught myself to open up to people a little better, and also to accept people's quirks a little more readily.
Easily, my greatest accomplishment so far has been becoming a member of Tri Sigma. Not only is it helping me to stay involved (you all have probably seen me running around like a chicken with my head cut off Monday nights) it's also helped me to make many really great friends. Needless to say I'm REALLY looking forward to Greek Week.
Staying on top of my obligations has been, surprisingly, fairly easy. I started out using an assignment book, but quickly discovered that, because I'm not used to it, simply remembering everything I need to do and getting it done ASAP. More long term things (like Pasych research projects) go into the calendar on my phone, as well as concerts and birthdays.
Most of all I'm surprised at how quickly I adapted to living on my own without my Mom. Yeah, I still get homesick sometimes, and get really tired of having to pay a dollar per load of laundry, not to mention not being around my Mom's home cooking, but I'm functioning pretty well.
Mizzou Has been an easy enough adjustment for me. This is probably because I am a “CoMo” and still living in a community where I am comfortable. Academically my adjustment has been a bit slower. I took Ap classes in high school but the college environment is completely different from high school, go figure right. It’s been hard for me to adjust to having more than one day to do home work, and having days in between classes. I am still terrible at managing my time. I find my self thinking I have nothing to do just because I have nothing due the next day. Socially college is amazing! There are so many new people from all over the world. I’m having a blast meeting new people. It’s really nice to be out of the clickish social environment of high school. Ive met hundreds of new people; I can’t even keep them all straight. One of the best and worst parts of college is the dorm. On the one hand anyone you make friends with always lives just down the hall, on the other hand you are living with a hundred other people and you have to tolerate a lot of things you’ve never dealt with before. College is clearly a direct step towards the real world. I have to wake my self up, keep track of my homework, and do laundry, the whole deal. Even though ive been capable of doing all these things since long before I came to college but now the pressure is seriously on to make sure I do them on my own. Back at home id always get a few “helpful reminders” to steer me in the right direction but now in college I have to basically manage my self. That’s a great thing for preparing me to live completely on my own. All in all I think college is turning out to be a demanding but fun experience and in the end should prove to be extremely rewarding.
-Cooper
At first I was not sure if I could keep up with all the responsibilities of college and and living in my own. But I have surprised myself somewhat. I have not had a difficult time making it out on my own. I have not grown terribly home sick. I have made an attempt to just focus on my studies so I can divert attention from the fact I am 100 miles away from home. I think it's great to have responsibilities because when you bog down to get things done and really accomplish something you can acclimate yourself to the environment.
Other than my studies I have been involved with the College Democrats. I have always been politically conscious, but this year politics and the election matter even more. The club has allowed me to meet new people and become actively involved in something greater than myself. However I fell I am little "slow" when it comes to the social aspect. I have never been the "socialite" in the past and I don't plan on becoming one. But I should interact a little more, but not get carried away.
On the academic side I should step it up. Overall I am fulfilling most of my academic responsibilities but I still have traces of laziness in me. I often wait to the last minute to do most of my assignments. As a result my work loses quality and is a sloppy mess.
The college experience eases you into the phase of your life when you must take on huge responsibilities. My time here so far has taught me what is like to take on the burden of life.
Since moving to Mizzou seven weeks ago, I feel like I have been introduced to a lot of different things. I have definitely been adjusting to managing schoolwork with a social life at the same time, which was no problem for me in high school. To ensure that I do well in school, I have completely changed my study habits. In high school, I would get A's without even trying. Here, it is a completely different story. Good study habits are incredibly important to doing well here at Mizzou. So far, what I am most proud of myself being able to adapt to life on my own. I was incredibly dependent on my family and friends back home, and knowing no one coming here with me, I was pretty nervous about being able to find my way. I have learned that I am more independent than I thought I was and I have been adapting quite well.
I believe that having a well-rounded experience in college is important too. I have joined The Little Sisters of the Gold Rose service group. This group is paired with a fraternity, and while participating in many community service projects, we also get invited to the social events of the fraternity. I am also a floor government officer and a member of CARS. I plan on getting a job on campus sometime soon as well. As long as I can balance out my academic and social responsibilities, I feel I will do just fine. :)
So far this school year I've learned that my time management skills are going to be what determines my academic success this year. In high school I didn’t have to study much at all to keep good grades, but obviously college is a whole other ballgame. I'm not currently involved in any organizations, but I definitely plan on joining a couple by the end of this semester. However, I do have a job where I usually work six days out of the week. So time management is really important to my academic success. I'm currently working on planning my time better and keeping myself organized in what I have to do and when I have to do things. I have a lot of daily obligations and I'm trying my best to stay on top by keeping organized, but obviously, I'm still working on it since I'm posting this blog late (sorry Jake!). But overall I'm doing an ok job and I'm most proud of how well I'm doing grade-wise in my classes. I've done really well on almost all of the tests I've taken so I'm just trying to maintain that! I now have a permanent “study partner” whom I study with almost nightly. And I balance my social life by trying to keep the “partying” and “going out” on the weekends and really focus on my classes through the week. I'm here at college to get a great education, so that I can be successful in my career and life. So as long as I'm staying focused in my classes, I feel I am setting myself up for such success.
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