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personal importance, no matter the scale. Explain its significance to you and what steps
Like many other people, I was an inpatient student who always tries to get any academic
problems over with as quickly as possible. I can recall more than one instance where I simply
gave up on my research project, pack up what information I had, and uses my poor English as
an excuse to gain an okay grade, and so I did. But there was one time I remember clearly, that I
was more than willing to work tirelessly to finish the research project, not for my GPA, my
It was my final research project of American History, and it was not anything like an
impressive project. The requirement was simply to pick any of the significant events covered in
class and research any aspect of it in detail. I had a whole semester to do this. At first, I was
planning not to take the coursework seriously. But I found myself failed my plan several times a
few weeks into the semester, probably because I was very into History, or just that I had a very
encourageous start made me don’t know stop. It was at that point I figured out, finishing
homework with full effort isn’t as tiring as I had thought and I can do a much better and
satisfying job if I really want to. I then decided to finish everything that I am obligated to for every
course I had. It wasn’t as big of an increase in my grade as I expected since I used to make up
many excuses for my incomplete works, but I feel myself becoming more and more confident
But as weird as it sounds, though, I was skeptical about my change, I was skeptical
about whether I really changed or not. So I decided to test it out on the final project about the
Great Depression, to make it perfect and something that can truly impress me. With this kind of
mindset I started working, with passion. I read through page after page of source, did round
oupon round of fact-check, and wrote out paragraph upon paragraph of condensed facts. The
more effort I put into the paper, the greater sense of accomplishment I felt. The whole thing then
The paper turned out to be not quite perfect, but I would argue that it was still very
important to me because it teaches what learning really feels like and to this day it still