Increasing my Skills

     Coming in to college, I lacked a few skills that I needed to be completely successful. I hope to learn these skills by the end of my college career. I hope to gain better study habits, greatly improve my writing skills, decrease my procrastination, and become a better content reader.
   
     I have improved on my study habits already this year but still would like to find more helpful ways to study. I want to be able to increase my test scores and have better ways to remember important information. I always seem to forget the information I am studying once the test comes. I wish to find ways to help me memorize and implant information in my head in order to achieve better test scores.

     Writing has not always been my strong suit. Throughout high school I was not really required to write a lot. We barely wrote and papers or essays, the extent of our writing was short answer test questions. I do think that not having a lot of experience with writing has made me struggle some when it comes to writing essays in college. I have always had a hard time putting things I am thinking on to paper. I can say things in my head but as soon as I need to say them out loud or in a paper, I complete blank. I hope during my college career that I can increase my writing skills so that I can receive better grades.

     I tend to procrastinate a lot on my homework assignments and do not get them done to the best of my ability some times. One major thing that I seem to procrastinate on is reading assignments. I love to read but not when it is stuff that is assigned to me. I will leave my reading until the last possible day and then will not get a complete understanding of it. I would like to gain better procrastination methods so that I will complete all of my assignments with my best effort.