Walkup's Way Home Journaling:  How Do I Feel About College?
  It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain
a thought without accepting it. -- Aristotle

 
1 disagree

5 neutral

10 highly
    agree
Mark the point on the line that best represents your position:

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I feel very happy to be attending college and am confident  that I will have great grades at the end of the semester. 

Complete the following 6 sentences on attending college:

1.  I'm really looking forward to experiencing all I can from college and to the  rest of the semester because   _________________________________

 

2.  Sometimes, though, I'm a little nervous and scared about college because____________

(If your nervous, keep in mind colleges compress an entire year of high school into  15 weeks  and that teacher grant you more independence.)

 

3.  One obstacle I anticipate meeting is __________________________

 

4.  I will overcome this obstacle by _____________________________

________________________________________________________

 

5.What  is your reason for attending college?  
What factors influenced you? 
How do these reasons compare with your classmates'

  
Bill  Cosby decided to return to get his high school GED because he felt he was committing a "Mental Sin" (The Cosby Wit 1986). He saw people in the navy  "who didn't have much upstairs" struggling for an education.  cosby worked part-time as an entertainer while attending college

 

 

6.  Write a commitment statement regarding your academic pursuits for the semester:

I commit myself to _______________________________________________________

 

 

Complete the journal activities regarding your type:

Am I a closure type  or an open-ended type person?  
 Give an example from your life experience.

 

Have you ever worked with someone  who is opposite from you?

 

Now that you know your type, what insights does this give you regarding your  studying style?

 
Closure Type Open-ended Type
Start a job & finish it
Strive for swift completion		 Have trouble following a set plan.
Want spontaneity & freedom
Organized & Efficient Feel stifled by lists and schedules
Lack Flexibility Often struggle with procrastination
Can't stand uncompleted tasks.
Won't schedule recreation until a task is done		 Don't' mind starting a new job before completing an old one. Switch easily.
Very flexible
High stress (Taken from Carl Jung)

 

 

 

Quotes on Education

Find a quote that is meaningful to you and write about it.

 

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. - Derek Bok, Harvard University President

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain
a thought without accepting it. -- Aristotle

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.  Plato

Education is the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy - but forming and informing them as art. Allan Bloom

An educated man should know everything about something, and something about everything. C. V. Wedgwood

Education is a wonderful thing; if you couldn't sign your name, you'd have to pay cash. Rita Mae Brown

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education John F. Kennedy

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.  Diogenes

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.  - Aristotle

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. - Malcolm Forbes

Education has for its object the formation of character. Herbert Spencer

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.  Henry Peter Brougham

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.
Education is hanging around until you've caught on. - Robert Frost

Education is better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.  Edward Everett

Education is the transmission of civilization. Ariel and Will Durant

Skill to do comes of doing. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward. St. Francis Xavier