Im I ready for college work?! I just wrote this reflection essay is it good for college as well?

Question

im scared that college work will be to hard for me, what can i improve in to succeed in college?
any suggestions would be helpful,thanks.


Reflection essay: Volunteer Day 1
Before I even started on my first day of volunteering, I was concern on what they would make me do. If I would to be even slightly interested in what I would be doing there or would I just be turned away by the first environmental friendly task they had me do. As I have visited the site before, but never actually done any sort of volunteer work there, I was still anxious on what type of work they would have me doing. I expected to be interacting with children form near by schools, knowing that the Audubon Center has frequent visitors from local schools, and learning about animals: birds, plants and animals.


When arriving at the Audubon Center ready to complete my first day of volunteer service I was greeted by Patty Sun a specialist at teaching others the mission that the Audubon Center has to offer. As I was given a small tour of the center with Patty, I quickly learned about the types of plants that were growing there unintentionally and that by leaving them alone it will cause the center to look dried out and ugly. Seeing how much of these potentially dried up plants there were I decided to use my time volunteering by weeding as much as I can. Shortly after I was told about a pond that is also there and how they only have fishes and tadpoles, when I asked about adding frogs to the pond, I was told by Patty that before they did have frogs but the frogs would eat all the fish so they had to get rid of them.


Once my first day of volunteer work was done with I did get a feeling of accomplishment. Even though it was not exactly what I had expected of the volunteer work I was going to do at the Audubon Center, it was a successful day of work. Even though most might think a whole day of weeding is not much, to me helping anyone in finishing a project they have been trying to complete is work enough.

Answer 1

Hey, don't worry so much :)



Remember, in your freshman composition class (which is mandatory for everyone in their first year), you will also be taught college level composition. High school courses were the previous step, and now you have gradually moved on to college work. It's like this: Are you ready for college level Italian if you speak no Italian? Of course! You just haven't taken the course yet. So, is that essay good for college? Mmm, it's ok, but you have never taken a college composition course so, how would you already know how to write at that level (well, some people just have a knack for it, but your skills look like they can be easily developed in English 101: Freshmen Composition).



Be sure to utilize your university's writing center. They have people to read over and critique your work. Also, office hours are always available to meet with your professor before an assignment is due.



Also, the California State University has a graduation writing assessment that you finish around your junior year. That will determine if your writing level is good enough to graduate. At some Cal States, it is worked into the curriculum. At CSUSM it is like that. At SDSU you take an exam and if you score less than 10, you must take an extra writing class. I don't know how it works at SFSU but it will be one of those two ways.



I think the hardest thing for me was, though I got a 10 on the Writing Proficiency Assessment, I forgot how to do MLA format. I was an Econ major, and by the time I was forced to take an upper division literature course for upper division GE requirements, I was surrounded by English and Lit majors and I only had to write 1 paper in all of my Econ classes and English 101 and English 122 was a loooong time ago. I was a fish out of water, but no matter. In Econ, they don't take off many points for format, they are more interested in content. It took awhile to get used to upper division literature class, and I got marked off for my format (I did look up MLA format but I was still confused), but I got an A-.



Relax :) It'll be great.

Answer 2

This needs some SERIOUS grammatical help especially for an incoming college Freshmen!!! Words are out of place and sentence fluency is lagging big time. Definitely take some summer English classes to prepare for college.

Answer 3

Your grammar needs work. But so does the grammar of many first-year college students. I suggest you take a composition class in college.