Reflection on Learning Experience

Reflection on Learning Experience

I have also been interested in reading personal accounts of people, be it biographies, blogs or reflection and I always thought what it would be like writing an own personal experience. Then I came up with the idea of reflecting upon my personal learning experiences at high school. I went through different kind of experiences during my years at high school and I am still having a great time there. I faced achievements which came after failures and disappointments but none of them could stop me from moving forward. Looking into my past years feels like I am aboard to an interesting journey which I will never forget and enjoy throughout my life. That journey helped me become a person I never thought to be and developed my personality very unexpectedly.

This journey began with my admission at the high school and my first day at college caught me quite off guard. I have heard about the life and experiences at high school from my adults but I never knew that I will be introduced to a new world just in an instance. I had always been an average student throughout my academic life and there I was, among the intelligent and intellectual ones. They came through different backgrounds but had a thing in common i.e. their brilliant academic records. I took my presence among them as a mere chance and nothing more than that. But my orientation class taught me something I will not be able to forget and something that helped me survive during my initial days at high school.

Our instructor asked for the grades of their students. He just called out the grades and asked us to raise hands, and I was astonished to see that there were many students who stood beside me; however, our quantity was less than the high grade achievers. Then we were asked to share our feelings for being there. Despite the fact that I was quite amazed for being there, my outspoken nature could not stay quiet for a long time and I shared my thoughts of feeling myself a bit inferior and puzzled due to my past academic average records. And then he came up with an interesting explanation for being there that took almost all of my worries away. For him, we were there because we must something special in us. He told us that intelligence is never measured with grades and marks but through way of thinking and assessing reasons behind every phenomenon rather than accepting it as it presented to you. For attainment of complete understanding of something, a person should have the ability of critical thinking and finding logical reasons behind everything. For him it was not necessary that a great grade saver must have this ability or an average student does not possess it. Every pupil possesses an individuality within which differs him from the rest of the crowd and this was something we had to prove during our ...