My academic performance during the spring semester of 2010 is not indicative of my undergraduate career. As a college freshman entering my spring semester, I felt that I could handle an extremely heavy course load. Although advised against doing so, I naïvely believed that this particular course set would not be problematic for me, given my academic success in high school. As a spring semester freshman, I struggled immensely with both the time pressure and academic ethic that these courses required. As a result of not being able to fully devote myself to any of these courses, given that several of the courses, financial accounting, survey of calculus 1 and principles of macroeconomics, were ones that I found difficult, I performed poorly in the semester. Following Spring 2010, I learned how to better manage my time and study in a more effective manner. Thus, my grades improved considerably during my sophomore year and continued to be maintained at a high level of performance throughout the rest of my time as an undergraduate student.
