When I was taking classes last semester I felt like just giving up, letting go and retaking my classes in the future. I wrote out to my teacher that I had felt this way at the end of the semester reflecting on the way I had acted and what I was doing, telling her everything, I even told her that I knew it wasn't the best way to do it and that I wish I would have approached someone for help in the course. In the end, I ended up barely passing her course simply because I missed in the syllabus that she would give 10 extra credit points to any student who didn't use the late assignment pass given at the beginning of the semester. I had forgotten about that pass.
Another thing that happened today was a tutor who works alongside me in the Academic Services lab approached me for my opinion on how to handle something that wasn't happening the way it was supposed to. I gave him my opinion and how to handle it and he thanked me for the answer I gave him before going back to check on someone he had been helping with coursework. I felt that he wasn't necessarily going to be able to give the right words to the student who he was dealing with and took it upon myself to look into the rules more and typed up an email draft to send to him. He had approached the desk at the end of his shift and I was halfway through finishing the draft for him and I let him know what I was doing, he was surprised that I would go that far even though it didn't directly affect me. I let him know that it did, in fact, bother me, I didn't let him know it was because I could tell how distressed he was about what was going on and he was only trying to let that student know that he wouldn't always be there to help if they didn't go through the right steps. He asked me how long I had taken on the draft and I jokingly told him ten minutes which made him fret even more as he told me I shouldn't have even taken five minutes to do it. I don't know how much time I had honestly put into it as I didn't think it mattered how much time it took as long as I helped him. He told me how much he appreciated it that I would go to those lengths and I tried to joke it off as I didn't think I deserved his thanks for doing it, I just wanted to, I finished it and asked him if he wanted me to send it to him. He decided to ask me if I could send it as Academic Services and I told him that I would ask for the student's name once again to make sure it reached the right person before sending it off. He then again began to tell me how much he appreciated it and I told him that it was no problem but that I needed to leave as my shift was over, he had decided to stay and talk to me as I had completed it for thirty minutes after his shift had ended. I'm glad I was able to help him. I hope that in the future if something like this were to happen to me that I would be able to be like him and look for answers to my problems also, I hope that I can be less independent when I need to be.___
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
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