All posts by DESTINY LOPEZ

Journal Entry #17

Stems:
1. An outer obstacle that stands between me and my success in college is the lack of time to study and a quiet place to study at.
2. Someone besides me who could help me overcome this is my friends and counselor.
3. How they could help me is by teaching me time management skills and giving me tips on finding places to study at.
4. An inner obstacle that stands between me and my success in college is procrastination.
5. Someone besides me who could help me overcome this inner obstacle is my friends.
6. My friends could help me by alerting me on upcoming assignments and encouraging me to join study groups.
7. The most challenging course I am taking in Anthropology.
8. This is challenging because I have not been studying as much as I should.
9. My friends can help me overcome this challenge.
10. My friends can create a study group and quiz me periodically.
Choices for a Stronger Support System:
By creating a study group and a study schedule I can avoid procrastination. I know up coming events may conflict with my study schedule but I can overcome this by adding the loss of time to another day. A study group is a healthy and proven way to retain information without being stressed or alone. I am not the only one who is struggling and with the help of my peers we could all get through the semester successfully.

Journal Entry #10

1)My long term goals (As a College Student):

  1. Compete three internships by 2019.
  2. Graduate with my bachelors by 2019.
  3. Graduate with my masters by 2024.

My short term goals (As a College Student):

  1. Achieve a B or higher in all of my classes.
  2. Create a well organized study sheet for all of classes.
  3. Speak to every professor about my grades to see if I am on track.

2) I learned, from designing my goals, my main focus and priority in life is my education. I knew I was motivated enough to attend school, but didn’t know I had more motivation to finish it with exemplary grades.

 

 

 

Journal Entry #14

1. The system I use each day is a “next action list”. I write down, inside of a small notebook, everything that I have to complete for tomorrow or the following days. It’s extremely helpful because it serves as a daily reminder of what I need to get done to stay on track. This approach releases my stress because I don’t have to try to dig into my memory about an assignment a professor mentioned in class.

2.Something I should do, to remain in quadrant one, is get a planner and project folder. A planner is more sufficient and records future assignments and test. A “next action list” helps me, but a planner seem more helpful. I noticed I was attacked with a lot of group projects, and a project folder is the best approach for this.