College English The Struggle is Real

So now that i'm half way though my third semester.  The caution of where your grade lies.  As the final day drawls near on dropping classes that your doing poor in you wonder if you should or should try to stay and succeed.

English has always been my hard area.  Though I love reading, and writting its also been my downfall.  I have A in all the small projects its when it comes to spelling, or paper writting that the F come from.  I've come to realize these last few semesters that after 2-4revisions i jump from an F to a C/B/ and sometimes even an A paper.

Allthough I hope to pass with at least a C I started to notice its going to be a struggle.  I'm sitting very low.  And only being allowed one revision per paper.  I am relying on many friends to help me with my grammer and spelling.  As of right now I am keeping the positive that I can do this. I can make it the last few weeks of class and keep a positive grade.

Here at Ozark Technical Community College (OTC) the teachers have gone above and beyond to help me be successful.  They started this program where you take English 050/101 together or English 101/102 together one supporting the other.  So I did ENG 050/101 to get the added support.  The idea is you go to ENG 101 first for just over an hour you take a 20-30min break than go into ENG 050 to reveiew the previous class and get a jump start on the next ENG 101 class day.  If I had not taken this program I am sure regaurdless if I took ENG 050 or 101 by there self I most likely would have failed.  Now i'm trying ENG 102 and struggling even more than the other. But I don't have the previous class to help.

When it comes to English i'm farther behind than most people coming out of High School. Why? because I was in special education rooms and rather than teaching me the same english that everyone else was learning they prevented me from advancing.  I feel that i've had to teach myself and grow though the things I do in life.  They say you can't do college with anything lower than a 9th grade reading and comperhension level.  Well my reading is at 8th grade and i'm determined to define that you can.

I am 33 years old I started back to college when I was 32 years old.  My first paper was in History it took two grades and three writting of the paper but I went from an F to a B.  In my English 050/101 I averaged about 3-4visits to the teacher for revision.  This semester in Eng 102 I am only allowed 1rewrite  I hope it will be enough to make a big enough difference.I am hoping in two years I will be able to Post the joys of Graduation.