Yeah
I know I was the one who wanted to do the video for my final assessment but I
didn’t get around to trying to make it so I settled for the paper instead. Even before this class had started Jen
had sent us out an email saying bring a campus safari and answer these
questions by tomorrow for your first grades in our class. This to me was a huge shocker to what
college life was going to be all about.
But then I realized that everyone else had felt the same way. But as the semester trudged along I
realized that I started to like this class because of its stimulating
conversations and discussions we had. This class was very challenging in all perspective of
the college life.
Over
this semester in inquiry I have gained a lot of confidence in speaking in front
of the class such as raising my hand and answering one of Jens questions. In high school I was the kid who didn’t
talk much in every class but got by with a B or better. I liked participating in this class
because I knew no one would judge me on what I had to say. I felt I have made progress on the
college thinking level with doing so much work with inquiry and writing lots of
essays in my history class. This
class also showed not to be afraid by what you stand by, argue your position on
the topic and I felt I have become a lot more comfortable in doing that in a
college class.
Even
though I commute to school everyday, sometimes it is an inconvenience to do
drive 20-40 minutes out of my way to get an interview done with a professor on
something. But I learned that each
class has to have a separate priority slot in my life. I took my time to do all the work in my
harder classes such as my exercise science and inquiry class, but knew what I
had to do and got them done quick and easy with my history and English
classes. Also in doing my midterm
video on time management in food and eating healthy, I learned that a lot of
people should sit down and have a proper meal more than a couple times a week. My study habits changed significantly
also, because when I was a senior I barely studied because my hardest class
didn’t even require a textbook it required us taking care of our cars
properly. I learned that if I
wanted to pass all of these classes I needed to study like a maniac.
I
also believe my social life has changed a lot in many ways. I have new friends
in all of my classes including inquiry.
It has been quite the experiences getting to know them all but; in the
end everything was great. From
getting up at 5 o’clock to get the athletic training room for 6:15 took a lot
of time and effort. Banding
together to get that surprise campus safari assignment done and handed in took
hard work and friendships. All in
all I want to make more friends on campus, or maybe get an apartment down the
street so I can hang out with them and not have to drive 20 minutes to see
them.
To
conclude this awesome and final blog post for inquiry, I will say that blogging
was a new experience for me because it is something that I have never done
before. It was weird in many ways
on the topics we had to answer, or the specific reasoning behind what we had to
say. I didn’t like it at first
because I just thought of it as a waste of time, or just another assignment to
do for this class but I began to like talking about my family or myself and
share my personal experiences on campus.
I thought this inquiry class was awesome, and I hope to see some of you
guys next semester!
