First Semester<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This semester has taught me a lot of things. The two things that I think of first are presentations aren\u2019t very hard and group work isn\u2019t great. Growing up I have always hated presenting and presentations; it had always caused me great anxiety and it was something I always dreaded doing. Group work has had its ups and downs and I feel like this semester has sort of put a bad taste in my mouth for group work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One thing that has changed positively for me (for now at least) has been presentations. All throughout high school presentations were the worst part of every class for me, and I still honestly don\u2019t know why. Something about talking in front of a big group of people with all of the attention on me just really stressed me out. But some switch in my head flipped when I got into college, and I am not sure why. But every presentation I have had has gone super well with a lot less anxiety. Not that there wasn\u2019t anxiety going into the presentations but in high school I would think about them for days before and just stress myself out way too much for something that is not a big deal. I have had several presentations this semester and they were honestly kind of fun, one thing I think I have realized about presenting is that most of the people watching don\u2019t really care about your presentation, they are in their own head about their own presentation or just anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Group work however is something that I view with a more negative light. I\u2019ve learned that not everyone is reliable and that you should only depend on yourself. Personally, I would think that group work would be better in college than in high school because everyone is forced to go to high school, college is a commitment that you are paying for. Maybe I have just been unlucky with my groups, but I feel like a lot of my group assignments were just miserable due to a lack of communication and work. The most prominent example was for my GROUP communications class, where we had to do a social activity\/task out of class and then make a long several page guide about it as well as a presentation going over it for the class. My group who I was stuck with all semester just would not respond to texts or anything, we literally did the entire project the night before it was due. Not to mention I did 50% percent of the work before we even did the social activity, I had set everything up for them to fill in their respective parts and it would be easy for them to do. But when I checked in on their progress at 12 am (it was due at noon), none of them had done anything. I then spent the next 2 and a half hours putting my 50% up to an 80%. I finally went to bed pissed and just decided that if they didn\u2019t finish the rest I didn\u2019t even care because I did everything that was done. In the end we got a 70\/70 on the project but it still just was a terrible experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Second Semester<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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