14. Final Review

In this final post for my blog I will be writing about how I think I have improved as a student since joining college and how my soft skills have improved since the start of the year.

One way that I have improved as a student since starting college is my tardiness. At the start of the year I was late to my first morning lesson as I did not get an early enough bus and this made me late to my first lesson of the day. Since then I have started to get up earlier and then got an earlier bus to college. Since the start of the year I have improved my tardiness where I am no longer late when coming to college in the morning and am on time to all of my lessons.

Another way that I have improved as a student since starting college is that my time management skills have increased. Before starting college I was not very good at doing different tasks at once and prioritising. However since then I have started to prioritise the work that I do, I would do the more important work first and as soon as possible so that means I wouldn’t leave it to the last minute and rush the work and not complete it to my highest standard. Also I have managed to work on numerous assignments at once and manage to hand in these assignments in on time. This is shown where I have not missed any of my deadlines since starting college and will continue to do this throughout the year.

Another way that I have improved as a student is that I have improved my self-confidence. At the start of the year I only knew one person and would only talk to them and I would not talk much in class or participate in discussions. Since then I have improved my self-confidence greatly where I know can easily talk to other members of the class and have made friends with them. Also now I am fully confident to talk during class or during a discussion.

Similar to what I have wrote previous paragraph since starting college I have managed to improve my team working skills. At the start of the year I would not really talk to other people in the class as I was not confident enough and would only say a sentence or two. Since then I have greatly improved my team working skills as I am now confident when working in a group in class, I feel like I can be an active member of our group when working and can easily participate in group discussions without any hesitation.

A final way that I have improved as a student since enrolling at college with my written skills. Since starting college I have significantly improved my written skills. Since starting college I have started reading more books on a regular basis, this has improved my vocabulary and I am now able to use a wider variety of words in a piece of written work. Also since starting college I have improved my writing skills where I have worked my grammar skills where I would put apostrophes regularly in words that they were not needed in. I was informed by one of teachers that I did this on a regular basis and focused more on when I should be using them and if I am using them appropriately.

In conclusion I feel that I have greatly improved as a student since coming to college as I have improved myself on various soft skills and will continue to improve them and maintain these skills that I have learned.