Washington State University Accomplishments

At Washington State University anything seems achievable, whether you came to Washington State University as an undecided major or someone who was dead set on what they wanted to do. Everyone is striving to achieve what they came here to achieve. When I first drove through the Palouse, sunlight bouncing across the dancing fields of farm lands scattered around the area and then out of nowhere a beautiful campus emerged. I was astounded, at that moment I knew I wanted to attend Washington State University, and despite my adversities along the way I am now a proud member of Washington State University and I cannot wait to see where this journey takes me in the next few years. Within my first year here I made leaps and bounds compared to my achievements

I am taking the math 100 course which is a non-credited, pre-requisite for me to even get placed into the math class I can take to get the credit. I am terrified. My freshman year I did wonderfully, ending with the highest G.P.A I have ever had, a 3.7. I ended up attending and being a part of the distinguished scholars group, and I made copious amounts of really good friends. As I step into my sophomore year I am faced with a subject matter that has been a dark cloud on my academic career for as long as I can remember. Mathematics is not something I am looking forward to in the least however I am excited to see if my upswing in my grades and my performance continues even throughout a subject matter that has been so incredibly daunting to me. Due to my learning disability in math I am scared that I will once again fall behind and return to my disheartened and hyper-critical self that I was back in high school. I am going to try everything I can to keep my grades up in my math courses and I am going to work my hardest in learning the material, but maybe it just will not stick. This is a huge barrier and a big dark cloud that is looming in the distance as I get closer and closer to my sophomore year. This math disability that I have will be a barrier for me in many ways. Having to spend twice as much time studying for a math course compared to my others will take my focus away from other courses, I will really have to solidify the time-management skills that I have been working on for years. My disability may create the same defeated emotions I had in high school, where I felt as if I would never be as smart as other students and that I may never achieve what I want to achieve because my brain just cannot compute