A reflective essay on my experience the Life Science 1

My experience coming into the University of the Western Cape was one that was extremely nerve wracking. I was unsure if I was going to study at all.

After I had matriculated I was just an unemployed worker until early February 2013 arrived and I received a phone call to say that I have been accepted but classes have already started so I would just have to fall in and play catch up. Eventually my first week of Varsity passed and the once class i felt most comfortable in was Life Science.
Honestly my experience on high school of Life Science was not the greatest as i found it difficult somehow to grasp the work and get an A until the end of the year where it was "do or die". When I found out that I would have life science as a module i was already in a passive state of panic, thinking how it all would work out.

I then discovered that my lecturer was really cool. A female and really funny, she just brought the work across in such a relaxed manner that at times it felt as though i was listening but without force, I wanted to learn.
People always made me believe that University is a scary place where you have to be all grown up and professional.

But in Life Science 151 the experience so far has been one that is fun filled, exciting and has changed me as an academic achiever to being an academic believer as well. It has made me more confident in my work by which I revise daily and don't leave everything at the last minute.I put in much more effort and reap the rewards.
I especially think that the tutorials we do every week, class activities and tests are what help most students including myself achieve the goals that they set out for themselves.
The guidance received throughout this module has taught me to not take the fact that I have the ability to learn for granted and that learning is in fact really fun. The test and tutorials help with preparation of exams which always keep you going with studying your work every day. I would say in a way studying for tutorials make it much easier on me to study for an exam because "parroting" my work is no longer an option because of all the understanding I have.

Lastly the practical's done in the Life Science 151 module has been quite fun so far. My practical demonstrator and lecturers are sometimes hard on us but that helps me to do and give my best on my own.
The first practical done in the first semester wasn't that great though because we went to the Nature Reserve for almost 2 hours and the heat that day was inexplicable. However each and every practical has given me more insight on how things work in real life, other than just learning from a textbook or being taught by my lecturer. Having done almost no practicals on high school, knowing that every I would do a practical would always be an exciting thought. 

Over all the experience of Life Science 151 has been amazing and the least of what I had expected it to be. I expected it to be eat sleep and study (which is sort of the case) all the time, however the demonstrators, tutors and lecturers are people filled with spontaneity and really just goal driven people who have honestly rubbed off their positive nature on me. 

The Life Science 151 experience has been an EXPERIENCE!