Zakia Abraham
Freshman Seminar

Journal #17

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1. An obstacle that stands between me and my success is that I lack appropriate amounts of study time and the courses are complex.
2. Someone besides me who could help me overcome this outer obstacle an individual that can relate, has experienced and overcame these obstacles.
3. How this person could help me is by giving good advice and/or tips for overcoming these obstacles.
4. An inner obstacle that stands between me and success in college is the lack of confidence I have and constant procrastination.
5. Someone besides me who could help me overcome this inner obstacle is someone that can motivate me.
6. How this person could help me is by giving me good advice and as well as making me feel motivated.
7. The most challenging course I’m taking this semester is Anthropology 1001.
8. This course is challenging for me because it requires critical thinking and a lot of reading that acknowledge complex concepts.
9. Someone besides me who could help me overcome this challenge is peers that are doing well in the course and understand the material as well as the professor.
10. How this person could help me is by sharing tips for simplifying complex concepts and effective study skills.

2) Write about two choices you could make to create a stronger support system for yourself in college:
The lack of confidence I tend to have in college has really had a negative impact on my performance. Courses are sometimes complex and it has made me worried about my grade and understanding of the material being presented. In order to create a stronger support system for me, I have decided to interact with my peers more to get positive people as motivators. I am also visiting my professors during their office hours for additional help.

1. An outer obstacle that stands between me and my academic success in college is having a lot of work to do at the same time.

2. Someone besides me who could help me overcome this outer obstacle is my cousin.

Journal #17
1. An obstacle that stands between me and my success is my girlfriend because, she constantly wants my undivided attention all the time.
2. Someone besides me who could help me overcome this outer obstacle are my studious friends.
3. How this person could help me is by telling me to focus, achieve and complete all of my work.
4. An inner obstacle that stands between me and success in college lack of focus.
5. Someone besides me who could help me overcome this inner obstacle is my Mum.
6. How this person could help me is by helping me with moral support along the way.
7. The most challenging course I’m taking this semester is Anthropology 1001.
8. This course is challenging for me because it doesn’t make any sense.
9. Someone besides me who could help me overcome this challenge is my professor.
10. How this person could help me is by telling me what I need to focus on, what to study for.
2) Write about two choices you could make to create a stronger support system for yourself in college:
The lack of focus I tend to have in college is degrading who I am and my work ethic. I think it is causing me to have bad grades in most of my classes. It’s hard for me to sit still and focus on a reading, when I can be doing other stuff. Too many distractions are at home, which causes me not to focus. Talking to my professors has helped me ascertain what I need to study for on my next exams. I talked to my anthropology professor which helped me out a lot, she gave me a lot of helpful advice which will lead me into the right direction.

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1. An outer off to go that stands between me and my success in college is video games.
2. Someone besides me who could help me overcome this outer obstacle is my family and friends.
3. how does a person can help me is by guiding me in the right direction.
4. An inner obstacle that stands between me and my success in college is getting distracted.
5. someone besides me who could help me overcome this inner obstacle is my counselor.
6. how this person could help me is by guiding me in right direction.
7. The most challenging course I’m taking in college this semester is anthropology
8. This course is challenging for me because the teacher wants a lot from us.
9. Someone besides me who could help me overcome this challenge is my teacher.
10. How this person could help me is via telling me what you want from us.

2. Right about two or more choices you could make to create a strong support system for yourself in college

One choice I can make for myself is to organize myself even better. I know I’m not the most organized person in the world but if I organize myself better I can achieve many things. I can make for myself is to be in study groups I have learned that being said it does actually help me retain more information.

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COLLEGE STRUGLE

1. An outer obstacle that stands between me and my success in college is not giving my self time to study. I understand the material in class but I do not go over it. When a professor explains something I get it in the moment but I don’t go back to my notes to read and actually understand the notes I wrote down.
2. Someone who besides me who could help overcome this outer obstacle are my classmates Annie, Kristian, Aissata, and Destiny. I take classes with them and we always talk about the work when we have time. In a way my coaches because they give me the support that I need to become successful.
3. How these people could help me is by enforcing that study group that we planned at the beginning of the semester. They do encourage me and we encourage each other.
4. An inner obstacle that stands between me and my success in college is procrastination. I tell myself that I am going to do my work at a certain time and then I don’t do it. My head tries to spin around the problem and how I am  going to do it but I never start it. I feel that my confidence also is another factor to my struggle in college. I fell confident about certain classes, which is good, but that confidence keeps me away from doing extra work.
5. Someone besides me who could help me overcome this inner obstacle are my professor. When teachers make something worth a lot of points makes me worth harder. When we have due dates right after an assignment is given it makes me work harder to make the assignment on time. With a lot of pressure and points at risk it lets me know that I have something to do.
6. How  the professors could help me is by assigning work and make it worth a lot of points. Explaining it as well and giving examples
7. The most challenging course I am taking in college is history. I never liked history, was not my favorite subject. I always have trouble remembering dates and events and their time line. In college I am understanding is not about what I like but what I have to learn.
8.  This course is challenging to me because I feel that there are various events within a certain time. It is hard for me to keep up with these events. The professor does a good job explaining it it and I like it but I just need to concentrate more.
9. Someone besides me who could help me overcome this challenge is my sibling. She took this course before and understand history more than me. Sometimes I do not want to bother her since she is super busy.
10. How this person could help me is by sitting down with me for at least 1/2 and hour and help explain events. Events in American history and what is going on outside in America during the same time

Two choices I could make for myslef to become a stronger student and overcome my obstacles are getting organized and limit video game time. I am not the most organized person but I know where I place my work and do it. But I need to become more organized to be more efficient. I should separate my work from all my classes and buy folders. Creating a calendar will help me achieve this. I recently bought Call Of Duty Black Ops 3, a shooting game. I also bought the one year gold membership to play online. I have been playing it since i bought it and have become addicted. I had not played video games in over a year and now I’m back to it. I have to limit my playing time from 3-5 hours to 1-2 hours. I will have enough time to do my work and focus on it, not that its just done but is my best work.

1. An outer obstacle that stands between me and my success in college is trying to understand a professor and his assignments. Although I do ask him questions, look up videos and information online or even ask my friends, there’s still a misconnection and not enough clarity of what he expects.
2. Someone besides me who could help me overcome this outer obstacles is my own professor still try to get more time to speak to him during his office hours.
3. How this person could help me is by better understanding what he expects of certain assignments and I would try to better grasp on the information I missed.
4. An inner obstacle that stands between me and my success in college is really nothing because if I’m dedicated enough to get the grades I want to get, I wouldn’t let anything get in my way. Although I do get distracted at times, I would find a better place to focus and get my things done.
5. Someone besides me who could help me overcome this inner obstacle is myself
6. How this person could help me is by setting goals, turning off my phone and finding a focus place to do my assignments
7. The most challenging course I’m taking in college this semester is my history class, I was never really good with this subject in high school although I still got a high grade the information didn’t stick with me after exams. I just find it really boring but it’s a challenge that I should live up to.
8. This course is challenging for me because I find it boring and not as interesting unlike some other subjects. Not being able to connect with it as much and knowing that I’m going to use it later on for my future career.
9. Someone besides me who could help me overcome this challenge is my history professor or different tutors that I can go for extra help. Even YouTube videos are really helpful.
10. How this person could help me by is to better understand the information and find a way to remember it for exams and finals.

Two choices that could make a stronger support system for myself in college is to continue to have the motivation and desire to be successful within my courses, because without that desire I think I wouldn’t be able to put as much effort into my work. I’m really lucky to have the connection with school, enjoy and take full advantage of my education that some kids don’t really appreciate it. A second support system for myself is to continue studying and keeping up to date with my assignments. Having to be a week in advance with my work gives me more time to do personal things. Weekends are really helpful to organize and review certain information from class. I believe the support system starts with oneself you can’t rely on someone else to be successful, motivation comes from yourself to be the best of the best.

1.An outer obstacle that stands between me and success in college is the lack of time to study.                                                                                                                                                                           2.Someone besides me who could help me overcome this outer obstacle is my counselor or/and peer mentors.

3. They could help me  overcome this obstacle by giving me effective  time management tips .

4. An inner obstacle that stands between me and my success in college is procrastination.

5. Someone besides me who  can help me overcome this inner obstacle are my peers/friends.

6. My friends can help me  by forming study groups  and sending me quick reminders about upcoming assignments .

7. The most challenging course I am taking is Anthropology.

8. This course is the most challenging for me because I find it difficult to retain the wealth of information.

9. Someone besides me that can help me overcome this challenge is the instructor.

10. The instructor can provide me with tools/tips I need to succeed in her class.

#2  In order to develop  a stronger support system for myself  I can form a study group and most importantly seek the help of the instructor. Being in a study group  is just less stressful and allows me to connect with my peers. Seeking the help of the  Professor is equally important, well because the professor knows best! By simply going to their office hours and asking for their help, my chances of succeeding in their  becomes greater.

1. An outer obstacle that stands between me and my success is lack of organization.

2. Someone besides me who could help me overcome this outer obstacle is my mom.
3. How this person could help me is by telling to get it together when I’m unorganized.
4. An inner obstacle that stands between me and success in college is procrastination.
5. Someone besides me who could help me overcome this inner obstacle is my friend.
6. How this person could help me is by reminding me of school work due dates.
7. The most challenging course I’m taking this semester is Anthropology.
8. This course is challenging for me because it is complex.
9. Someone besides me who could help me overcome this challenge is the teacher.
10. How this person could help me is by telling me what I need to work on to improve.

2) Write about two choices you could make to create a stronger support system for yourself in college:

Two choices I can make to create a stronger support system for myself is to create study groups for courses that I find hard and being more organized. Study groups will allow me to work with my peers and learn new information. Organization will allow me to always be prepared and on time with my assignments.

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.

1. An outer obstacle that stands between me and my success in college is that I don’t have great communication with my professors.
2. Someone besides me who could help me overcome this outer obstacle is my friend.
3. How this person could help me is by accompanying me to talk to professors.
4. An inner obstacle that stands between me and my success in college is that I overthink get nervous during exams.
5. Someone besides me that could help me is my tutor.
6. How this person could help me is by giving me tips as to how to be less nervous and not overthink.
7. The most challenging course that I’m taking this semester is Anthropology.
8. This course is challenging to me because the concepts are hard to grasp.
9. Someone besides me that can help me overcome this challenge is my friends.
10. How these people can help me is by creating a study group.

I feel like I need to work on prioritizing my assignments and having a really good schedule. I also need to stop overthinking while taking exams. I need to remain calm and relaxed as well as think things through with a clear mind.