cover letter

This is semester in the class of SDV 100 we have learned a lot and got a clue on how to manage college life so later on we can success and be what we want to be. We have got so much information that I broke it down into three main categories, which are: Myself, College life, and Social life. We have learned many good things in each of these categories. All the information we got is very helpful, and I know it is going to help me for the rest of my career as a student and human being, as well as in my everyday life.
In the category about me I have three main things that I learned, the first one is about my personality. I learned about my learning styles, now I can tell why I act the way I do with certain things, and how and why other people act around me in different situations, it gave me answers to questions that I wonder for most of my life as a student, this activity helped me found out that I am a ISTP, knowing this made me a better person, I can understand other people’s reactions and ways to behave around different situations, I can also control my emotions a little bit more and get the best out of my personality.
Knowing about what habits I have and what I need to work on is good for myself, is always good to be aware of the bad or good habits we have so we can correct them and be a better person or change them into good habits. The habit I have being working on is procrastinating in doing my homework. Before this assignment I did not realized that I was procrastinating as much as I do. It is a very bad habit to have specially because I am a student and I want to go far and do things the right way. Now days I am more worry about my homework, I put all my effort to do it before the dead line, do it early instead of later and do it the right way. I just have to get my schedule right and get space for my homework, be responsible and work before playing; now what comes first and realize that if I do not do my homework is going to affect me later on, and I will be the only one responsible for this.
A very nice topic that I liked was success, how to be successful in life, what do I need to be a successful person and student. There are a couple of things that we all need to work on and do to be successful. I learned that I need to work hard to get what I want; I have to start with something that I can accomplish right now, something easy, improve as we go and those improvements will accumulate and then we will reach the “top of the mountain”. There are going to be many obstacles on my way but I have to leave them behind and keep going. Always doing what is right and do it at the right time. Kaizen is the method we learned to manage process as well as routine. The idea of this method is to always pick the lowest hanging fruit so little by little we get the highest one. Practice and get better on what we do. Start from where we are that is here in college as a student, so later on we can be professionals and reach that success we are looking for.
College life is a wide topic to talk about; I learned where all the resources were here at J. sergeant Reynolds, there is a place to go for each different thing, we have advising options, financial aid opportunities for every single student, we also have the college’s web site where we can find jobs, requirements for our careers and majors, we have an email where we can get in contact with our professors and many more things. We also have a big library and many computers for research or just go and do a project, print out assignments and do your homework. How or what we need to do to transfer to another college if that is what I want to do; we even have a game room to go and relax for a while after a hard day of school. We have so many resources and opportunities to be successful and good student, have a responsible and organized student life and help management my time as a student, as a worker, as a girlfriend, as a friend, as a daughter, this is something that is helping me for the rest of my life.
Social life; this class helped me to be more social and met more people, with different personalities and type of lives. Few months ago I would not get together with my classmates and study, but this class changed that fact of me, now, today I am seating in a study room in the library with four of my classmates, and it feels good, it feels good to be able to count on other people just like me, students and teenagers. This makes me feel better because I know that in the future I am not going to be as shy as I was before, taking this class and getting to know my class mates was a great experience. Other students are also a resource to become a better student and learn from other people experiences.
Organization in college is the key for success. I need to know how to manage my time as a student, full time worker, daughter, girlfriend, friend and all the roles I have in life. The to-do list was a great method to put order in my life and organized my schedule and my priorities. I learned what comes first. It helped me to remember easier what I had to do, because my memory is not as good as I thought it was, with the list I had something that remind me what was next and what was necessary to accomplish the next thing I want it to do or I need it to do.
I enjoy every lecture of this class; each of the major assignments helped me in school and in life as a whole it definitely made me a better student. I think is a great idea that they put English 111 and SDV 100 together because these way students can combine what they learn and get an idea of where we are going. This way we can get more involved in college and do better in each of our classes with the help of our classmates and professors.
These eight weeks I put all my effort and time into this class. I pay attention in class and got the best out of each lecture and assignment we had. I went home and did my part as a student of doing my homework. I deserved an “A” as a final grade because I worked hard and gave my best, as part of this effort here is my portfolio. The whole idea of the class was to get a clue of where we are and where we going. Now I know I am in school with more years of study to come to be a successful architect.