Academic

This semester was fairly easy for me considering I got rid of a lot of bad academic habits and replaced them with better, working habits. For example I studied a lot for my classes and did all my homework. However, there was one class I struggled with a lot regardless of it being my strong suit and that class was applied calculus. No offense but my teacher really isn’t all that great at teaching, she often skips a lot of steps in her head which is absolutely essential in math so it becomes really hard to follow especially since it’s all new material. I had felt devastated because I bombed my first test regardless of how long I studied. So i took it upon myself to take advantage of Baruch and go to SACC, the student academic consulting center. I was determined to do well on my future tests and work my way back up to an A. I made an appointment with a tutor which ended up being a group tutoring session in which there were two other students as well as the tutor. We each took turns asking the tutor questions one after another getting our thoughts more and more clear. With every question, the tutor would explain completely on a white board with an example and she made sure we understood by asking us follow up questions and asking us to repeat the steps. The tutor definitely helped me sharpen up some of my skills but since the class covers such vast topics I will for sure need to book a couple more appointments. But having access to this resource is a great advantage in doing better in school and gaining a better understanding of the things I need for class.