Dear Reader

Delmy Del Cid
Reflection #5
Dear Reader,

Throughout this semester, I had set goals that would help me throughout my work, but I feel like I barely accomplished them. My goals were getting above than an 80 in my classes, being able to manage school, soccer and working on my college applications and essays and finish them on time. Also managing my time was one of the first goals I set myself because I know if I did this well, I wouldn’t be behind on work or anything. I believe that I did accomplish this but barely because I have been distracted by things and I knew that but I was stubborn and not fully accomplish these goals. I accomplished all my goals but receiving 80s in all my classes, that wasn’t accomplished because I received on one 80 and the other I was missing at least two or three points in receiving that 80. These goals helped me stay on track with things and this semester has been one of the busiest time that I’ve had to deal with but I am prepare for what is going next.

Being part of the Hunter campus has had its struggles because this semester I didn’t take any college classes at all and just my regular high school classes, Math, History and English but my main struggle at Hunter was that I was given so much time for myself and my studies. This was a struggle because I get easily distracted. Also one struggle that has been hard for me this semester at Hunter would be that I only have three classes and I need to stay on top of my work and not slack off because of all the time that was given. I’ve worked on this by being able to ask for help keeping up with due work and following my schedule that I made at the beginning. Also I controlled my time and set different goals for each thing I will do. Being distracted for me was one of the biggest struggle because I am surrounded by a lot of friends, but I’ve also took time away from that and worked on being alone and getting things done before time. I think one thing that has worked is that I have my friends that stay on top of me and reminding about things and I am getting used to that and doing it alone. I still need work on managing my time more effectively.

This semester I only took three classes, which where my regular high school classes, Math, History and English. I think I did ok, I could of have done better but I needed to study harder for my exams. I only didn’t do as good in two of my classes but the other one I accomplished my goal of receiving an 80. In a year I see myself at a great college doing what I love best, playing soccer with a full scholarship and studying real hard. Also I see myself working really hard to not only make myself proud but my family as well. In 5 years I see myself graduating college and moving on to grad school and finishing my major. In 5 years I see myself having a degree in my major and knowing that everything I did in the past that helped me get to where I am now, paid off. In 10 years I see myself having a house, a car, hopefully married and working on a family. In 10 years, I see myself working in my major and helping my parents out with anything they ask and giving them what they didn’t have but what I did. Also I see myself still playing soccer with my friends and traveling. Achieving these goals will be difficult but it’s not like I am not willing to do it because if I set myself to anything, I believe I can get anything accomplished. Working on these goals will be like working on my life because it will be my life soon and I know that everything take hard work and dedication.

As a writer, I am very careful now in my techniques and I learn a little in how to work on my sentence structure. I think in life you have to be successful because everywhere you go, something has to written and turned in. I believe that in life writing has to be successful because without writing how will you get to where you want to be at. Engaging a reader and expressing learning lessons within your writing help me in other subjects besides English because you know the different techinques in writing and if you read it, you get used to that technique and use it as well. This can help me in life by knowing that reading about different techinques helps out a lot. I’ve learned that fiction has a lot of techniques in writing it and that it can be done with anything. I have enjoyed writing free writes because I can write everything on a piece of paper. Also working on my sudden fiction because I learned how to use my own experiences and mixing them up with different things. I think that the concept of writing in a different point of view has been hard for me. The concept that has been easy for me will be using the four characteristics of a character because it been easy for me. I plan on strengthening by using them more often.

At the end of the year in fiction class, I plan to accomplish all the different techniques and using them properly in my writing and knowing how to use them well. I hoped to accomplish by being a part of this pre-college program is being able to take classes at Hunter college and being able to experience an early view of what college will be like and how I will manage with a whole new different life style. This portfolio represent me as a student and as a person because I believe that in my writings, there is something that shows who I am and I know that as a student I worked really hard in receiving the grades I received. Also this portfolio represents me as a person because it’s all been written by me and it’s all my own work that I’ve learned to write from learning in fiction class. This also reflects me as a student because I know I learned to use different ways in writing in a whole new perspective.