Tyler Yegerlehner
USI has been easier on me than I expected. I began my college career thinking I would be meeting challenges that were much harder to meet than any high school problem. So far I’ve been wrong. Sadly, that doesn’t mean I’m doing all that well in my studies. In high school I was a procrastinating slacker, or a slacking procrastinator. I prefer slacking procrastinator mainly because that classifies me more appropriately than the first. In high school I did the minimum to get by and I had been doing it throughout my entire life. I wanted things to change when I got to college, but I’ve still been distracted by the same things and I’ve felt just as lazy as always.
Even though my overall performance has been below average there have been a few areas of my schooling of which I have exceeded a few expectations. Actually it was just once when I got a B on my first English paper. That was it. On my second English paper I didn’t do nearly as well as I thought I could have mainly because I forgot to do it. It has been high school all over again. If I had to choose between high school or college over the matter of which I’d do better in I would choose the latter mainly because College isn’t over yet.
In really need to make an improvement in all of my classes except history class. English I have a bad grade in because I didn’t read a few stories I should have and because I didn’t turn in a paper. In public speaking I have a bad grade because the teacher hates me, and that’s no joke. I hate to sound like the little kid that complains all the time, but this story is the truth. This one guy got a low A and his speech was two minutes short of the required time. That right there should be a low B. I’ve taken into account that it was our first speech and she may have given him a break. Now I got a D on mine. The reasons were because I gave my speech a day late which is automatically twenty percent off. Another reason was because I was laughing while giving my speech which was a story that has happened to me. But before anyone ever gave any speeches the teacher told us, depending on our speech, we should have an entertained or well informed audience. Well by the end of my speech everyone was laughing. Now I for one consider that entertainment. In her criticisms she also questioned if I was even interested or anyone of the audience members were interested in my story. IT WAS THE ONLY INTERSTING SPEECH MADE! That’s not my one sided opinion either. Other speeches were about baking cookies and using a fork lift. Writing about this is really starting to tick me off. I just don’t see how I could have gotten such a low grade with the most well like speech of the millennium.
I’m also doing terrible job in math. Now I’m not trying to blame all my problems on other people or anything else. It all comes back on me but there is still some reason to bringing it up. In my math class I literally just got my calculator two days ago. I passed all my tests and quizzes except for one. I’m pretty good at math and I still think that I may need a tutor now because I haven’t been able to stay up to scratch. Math used to be my strong point but as I got lazier the worse I got at it, which makes absolutely no sense (sarcasm). If I can just study and ace this upcoming test in there I will be able to even out my grade in there. I’ve met a few challenges head on and won since college started. Already I’ve written more than I did throughout my entire senior year. So for the next few deciding factors in my grades I’m going to try to buckle down and get it done right for once so I can at least stop stressing. I wasn’t even stressing about it until I wrote this page.