College lessons

This term has been particularly challenging for me. All of my classes had been reading and writing intensive. I love both, but I can not retain my reading, and correct spelling in my papers has been a battle. UO has a writing lab, it has been my saving grace. You simply drop in and wait for an open tutor. The tutor then reads your paper, tells you what needs to be fixed, and you learn about your repetitive mistakes. The main things that I have learned are this;

I now understand compound sentences and the use of commas.

I know that when you use a quote, you put a period after you site the page numbers.

I have learned that things like Scripture, Heaven, and Hell all need to be capitalized.

I have learned to only use words and quotes that support your argument, nothing else.

Never say I think or I believe.

My two most important things that I have learned in my classes are;

In Social inequalities I have learned to pray about a class before signing up for it. Once your in a class you are subject to learn, read, and listen to everything the teacher wants regardless of your view on the issue.

In German I learned to introduce myself to someone that is different from the rest of the class, this will make you delight in something new. I intentionally sat by a lady in her late fifties. She just made my day, what a beautiful thing age is!

All in all, even though this term had been very hard. I have learned by far the most about myself, my tendencies, good study/reading skills and how to think critically. I have found that undergraduate education does not condone this. Multiple choice test are common for undergrad classes. When you hear a lecture you do not think ABCD. You can train your brain to just reproduce the professors information, but what would you have learned? I have learned not to do this, but to rather critically analyze the information.