I Am Audrey Roberts And This Is The Fifth Pol I ve...

I’m Audrey Roberts and this is the fifth POL I’ve done in my life. This semester, the ESLRs helped me become a better college applicant by improving my study skills and time management as well as being able to communicate with teachers. The ESLRs also encouraged my creativity and technological skills. I prepared for college in a variety of ways this semester. I conducted college searches in Advisory in order to track down colleges that best match my criteria and heard college representatives talk about their schools. Taking college-level English was extremely helpful in developing my strengths as a college applicant because I was required to register at Grand Canyon University in order to take English 4 online. This gave me experience in†¦show more content†¦Essay 3 helped me become more prepared for college because it introduced me to the requirements enforced in college-level English, and it challenged me to use the resources at my disposal such as my peers and books we’d studied in English 1A. This semester, I gained several new responsibilities and became more involved in my global and local community. I have my driver’s license, I got my first job at Gap, and I joined two clubs, one of them being Interact. Interact Club is a club for teenagers that focuses on trying to solve issues that they’re passionate about. English 1A was only for one semester; this meant that we took our final exam at the end of the semester. Final exams for a college class were like nothing I’d ever experienced before. We had four essay prompts to choose from to write our exam on and they were given a week in advance. We had the chance to fully draft and finalize our exam before the actual exam date and then we could bring it in, copy it down, and turn it in. I took advantage of this glorious opportunity; I decided to write about the â€Å"warm glow† effect and had my mom and smart friend edit it. Even though I thought that the final exam wasn’t my best work, I e nded up receiving a 95% on it. This assignment best demonstrated a growth in my responsibility this semester because I had to utilize my skills as a driven and committed student. I did my essay ahead