Learning independently is very important for college students to gain academic success. By taking this course, I have studied a lot of materials that help me study online. Before taking this course, I never used Google calendar or Google drive, then I found that it helps mark the important things and share the documents with friends and classmates efficiently. The online tools are very helpful for students. It saves me much time and effort to remember the key terminology and prepare for class. What’s more, by mastering these online tools, we can learn the knowledge in a creative way. OSU online library has so much resource that we can use to write paper and do research. Although this course is an online course, I can communicate and collaborate with classmates by blogs and discussion board, and I think it is also a good way to learn from each other.
This course helps me know more about myself. The reason I take this class is to overcome the procrastination. Having specific goals and maintaining motivations are key points to overcome procrastination. After finishing these modules, I learned many tips and strategies to make myself motivated and think positive when I feel lack of energy and courage.
I think the best thing and the most meaningful experience from this class is learning the time-management strategies. By setting up the timetable, I feel that I am more powerful to control my time instead of being controlled by my laziness. Therefore it is very necessary and important to visualize the schedule. When I write down the tasks, I feel I am more responsible to finish these tasks and I also feel great by achieving these goals. Moreover, it makes me realize that in the same period of time I can do much more valuable things than I can imagine, in other words, I cannot waste the valuable time and I should live with passion. I am very appreciating this course changes my point of view of my life and I am trying to live differently and be a better me.
In the future, no matter what fields I work in, the materials I learned in this class will help me. For example, by using the time-management strategies, I can finish my task before the deadline and I can also balance my working time and spare time. It is always nice to make ends meet and enjoy my life. What is more, mastering the online tools helps me to be creative. For instance, if I have a great idea, I can put it in words, in animation, in mind map and so on. It provides me a broader way to express my idea and make it easier for others understand me. Other than that, by learning how to use the online resources, I think it can save me a lot of time to do the research, especially when I am working under great pressure. Overall, I enjoyed taking this course and I would recommend this class to my friends who suffer from procrastination. I learned many strategies that are so useful in college life and the later life after the college.