Learning Profile

The text mainly consisted of learning styles. It taught you things like what type of learner you are and how you learn best and how you can use that to your advantage. It also gave you a great deal of insight to who you are as a person and how you react with people. Taught you a lot of different things like reading comprehension study skills, things about culture. And about college life.
In this class we learned basically learned how to survive and in the college environment. We also learned about what type of learner we are. I found out that I was a more visual spatial learner. This means I learn best watching someone else do it first. Over had transparencies and writing notes on the board help me learn better. I’m also really good with charts graphs and maps. I also learned that I work really well with people. On job that the job search thing said I should do is be a accountant because I have good moth skills and I work well with people. Another job that would be good for me is being a travel agent because of my people skills and my skills with maps.
My weakness as a learner is definitely reading I have dyslexia so that makes things really difficult. My P’s look like Q’s and my B’s look like D’s. the letters really get scrabbled around in my head and its really hard to focus on each individual word. I’ve special help to try and solve the problem but its still hard to read. I also wish I was more intrapersonal. I wish I could have a deep awareness of my own feelings . I also wish I was more naturalistic and knew a lot more about the environment and nature and plants and animals. I love nature but I just don’t know a lot about it. I could improve my knowledge about animal life by taking more geology classes .
I learned a lot about the do’s and don’ts and what’s expected of the typical college student . I also learned that’s its a lot different form high school . You have a lot more freedom in college and with that freedom comes a great amount responsibility. You don’t always have mom and dad looking over our shoulder telling you what to do any more. College is way more like the real world. You make a choice not to go to class a few times and you could wind up being dropped . If you fall below 12 credit hours you get your scholarship taken away and you get kicked out of the dorms but still have to pay for them. On of the most shocking things we discussed in class was drinking and how many college students die a year from drinking to much. It was really eye-opening.
I really liked the job search thing we did in class because to be quite honest I really don’t know what I want to do when I get out of college. It really helped me to narrow my search down and figure out what types of jobs Id be good at . The website was a good one. It showed how much school you needed to get into each job and how much you get paid and if the job was hot right now. I found out that id be a really good buyer. Or an accountant. Before that class I wouldn’t have known what those jobs were. This activity really showed me what id be happy with doing for the rest of my life. The library resources lecture was pretty cool too. I didn’t know how easy it was to search for journals and other things
I think the course worked pretty well considering the time we had to complete it in. the job search worked really well. I think you should keep that because if any other college kid is like me, that’s something that they would want to know about. You should keep having the librarian coming in and talking to the class because she had a lot of useful information to give out that I think would really benefit other students. Think you should definitely keep showing the alcohol video because its fun to watch videos in class and it’s a good way to get the message across about the dangers of alcohol. I think on exorcise that we did that you can loose is the one where we had to step on the like if we liked something and stay where we were standing if we didn’t I fund that to be kind of pointless.
If I were to give any advice to people coming into the course for the fist time it would be to participate in class because it pays of f. and try and have an open mind about everything your doing don’t just go through the motions and say your to cool to do this kind of stuff. Actually process the information and relate it to your life. Id wish id known that this blog was going to take this long to do before a came into this class. Now I’m almost at the deadline and I’m still not finished. The most important thing I think is just do the work its not that hard and you find some out some pretty cool things about yourself on the way. Just do the work and you’ll be fine.
I think I’m a lot more knowledgeable about what I want to do with my life and what to do and not to do when I’m in college. Now I know what to do in the dorms. I know good study habits. I how to study things more effectively based on my learning style. I will do a lot of things defiantly know I will use the library resources more and I will think of teachers as people trying to help me not just people who give me bad grades. I think I got along really well with my instructor and my fellow classmates. I gave them all the respect they deserved and in return they all gave me the respect I deserved.