I believe I did very well last semester, I adjusted well, not just to the new school system but also to being back at school after my gap year. My biggest obstacle last semester was when and where I did my work out of class. I started a bad habit of not working on my work in between classes and only starting after all my classes finished for the day making me work far later into the night than I needed to. I would also do my work around friends who would often not be working on anything, becoming a major distraction for me. Luckily this semester I have started a system that works much better for me. I come to the library a few hours before my classes start and get as much of my work done in one sitting as possible. It has proven to work so well for me that I have free time between classes because I get all my work done in the morning.
Last semester I also failed to do the amount of reading for the class that was assigned. I started the semester doing the readings but quickly I read less and less. I spent most of last semester not reading any of the things I was told to read for class. I never felt like I wasn’t understanding the class without the readings because I would get the important information in the reading from the class itself. This semester I have been much better at reading for my classes. My understanding of classes has skyrocketed as a result and I have been able to be more involved in group discussions, especially in my philosophy class. I still miss reading sometimes but the number of missed readings is dramatically lower from last semester.