Thursday, November 19, 2009

Romona MCF3M

Hello, my name is Romona and i am creating this blog as part of an independent study unit for my MCF3M course. Just a little bit about myself, i am eighteen years old and have been in Canada for almost six years. My first high school was Winston Churchill and i spent three years there. Everything was great and i really enjoyed my years at wcci.
I got my first part time job job at the beginning of grade 11 and everything went fine until i had to move out and live on my own. It's obvious that i couldn't support myself with just a part time job, so i dropped that and got a full time job working night shifts. It was very very hard and i just couldn't attend all day school and work all night. I had no time for sleep, homework or myself. It just wasn't working and i knew i had to give up one in order to keep going. At the time, i had no choice but to sacrifice my school.
After a few months of going along like this, i realized that i had to go back to school sooner or later and why not make the sacrifice to go back now so that i can have more options in the future.
I heard about calc from a friend of mine that have previously attended and he loved it here, also the courses are shorter which works in my favour.
I used to love math back when i was in grade seven through ten but grade eleven was the beginning of my problems. I ended up skipping classes a lot until i finally ended up with a mark that showed it. I also found that there was a lot of new stuff in the curriculum and i never asked for help when i needed it.
My goals in this course are to come to class everyday, focus on the lessons and get my assignments done on time. I am ready and willing to work hard for this credit so that i can continue my path onto my future career.
I think that my strengths as an individual would be co operating with teachers and peers, taking notes and trying to get my work done on time. My weaknesses would be not doing too well on tests because i get very nervous and i forget everything i have revised.
All in all, i hope that this is going to be a great quad at calc and i would get all my goals accomplished for now while I'm here.

1 comment:

Benjamin Song said...

R,

Well, I guess I'm not as original as I thought! I had hoped that this would be a "new" way to communicate with students, but it looks like Miss C. beat me to it!

Anyway, I can't imagine how hard working FULL TIME and going to school can be. Although, I'm no slouch either. In university, I worked three part time jobs and "tried" to attend university courses at Queen's! Now, I was fortunate enough to pass, but unlike high school, university and college courses don't run from 9AM to 3PM!

In any case, I'm glad you've decided to finish something you feel is important to you. Education is something we often take for granted, so I hope you take full advantage of this opportunity so that you can secure for yourself a brighter future.

I'm hoping that through this course and specifically the blog, we'll be able to communicate any confusion you have about this course to help you succeed!

You'll notice that I've added myself as a follower of your blog. Please visit my blog site and do the same. There you'll be able to leave comments and questions, as well as find links for handouts related to this course.

Bs,.