Reaching Full Potential In College

Are you thinking about taking classes? Are you a little frightened because you don't know if you can achieve success but you are passionate about learning and growing?  It is not always easy to take that leap of faith.  Sometimes education can leave you asking more questions than when you began.

That is how it has been for me but what I have realized most recently is that I have been digging my heels in and resisting some of the challenges because flexing my own mental muscle can be difficult sometimes.

Fortunately, when I discovered a disconnect between what I was learning and what I thought I already knew I had the added benefit of tapping in to the knowledge base of the Associate Dean at Granite State College who also teaches Expository Writing because she loves it.

Make no mistake.  Learning curves exercise the brain but they also have an extraordinary purpose in the educational process.  There is a certain excitement when I can finally reach that "aha" moment -- that moment when I finally get it!

Today I finally get the idea and purpose of Literary Criticism, a form of writing I have been resisting for a year.  Because I need to do this writing in order to complete my Language Arts Degree, I have been working very hard to understand it in this current semester.  But I have been taking the criticism of my own writing personally.  Have you ever found yourself taking writing criticism personally?  Well, I think it is because we are caught in the trap of believing that all writing is the same but it is not.  

Some writing is done from a distance.  It is done after you have taken a good look at another piece of writing with the idea of disassembling it, perhaps to discover how it was originally constructed in the first place.  And now that I have a better understanding of the purpose of this kind of writing, I am certain I can be more successful at completing my assignments.

At Granite State College you will be able to tap into the knowledge of many people who understand the challenges of adult education.  They are excited to see us achieve success and they care about the outcomes.