Due Wednesday, May 22
Congratulations on making it to the end of the semester! Do you feel like a different person from who you were at the beginning of the semester??? You’re so much more knowledgeable and mature!
For this assignment, pretend you could get into a time machine and visit yourself from January. What do you know now that you wish you knew then? Write a letter to deliver to your past self explaining how this semester went for you and how you figured out what it takes to succeed in this class. Include any tips you have for your past self and anything you wish you had done differently semester this semester. How would you motivate your past self to work hard for their upcoming 17 weeks? What do you want your past self to know about where you are now?
Submit your letter as a comment on this post. Your letters may be used for future students of this class!
You may submit your comment any time you like, but if you submit it by 11:59pm on Wednesday, May 22, you will earn one more participation point.
Hello Past self its me from the future. Not that much has changed to be honest but at least you’re still handsome. Here are a couple of things you should do and please do them. First of all, I know it took you a while to log into open lab but please try your best to do it as early as you can. Not being able to track how many participation points you have is a pain. Next, I want you to click on the grades section in web work. I don’t know how but I didn’t know this existed until not too long ago so please do that. Itl will help you keep track of your webwork grade. Another thing is to go the teacher every time your having trouble with the web work. Some of them are an absolute pain no matter how hard you try so do that. All in all try and study a bit more and you’ll be fine.
hello past self, To be honest I don’t know what to say. I’m proud the fact you took the challenge to learn trigonometry again, I wish you’d did better on the first test but hey, you can’t be perfect you know. But I’m glad you took the step to comeback to strengthen your weaknesses. Also learn to study better!!!!!!
Hi past me, I want to say I am very proud of you for your dedication starting this semester. There will be a big curveball thrown your way at the very start and that is not your fault. Try your best to keep up with the assignments from home so that you are not completely behind. Do not lock yourself away and push forward!
Hello Marisa!My name is Brian and I am a current student in math 1375.Your letter to yourself is helpful to me because at the end you said “do not lock yourself away and push forward” and that sort of was a reminder to me that imma keep in my mind while going through this journey.
Well hello there my past self, I’m very proud of you actually getting work done this semester and being on top of WebWork as best as you could. If you could, maybe sometime earlier in the semester do 2-3 extra webworks to lessen the load for me right now. Review your notes and do extra practice problems to make sure the information sticks so review is actually review and definitely keep it up. You made it through one semester and I am very proud of you. Continue to grow, place more emphasis on studying and enjoy where the path takes you. Good luck!
Hey Hola, This is adrian, im currently in 1375 right now and just reading through yall’s letters to your past self. yours resonated with me, especially with what you said with giving yourself extra practice. Will def keep that in mind when i go through this semester. Thanks!
Wassup me from the past. Good job on making it this far. Make sure you take extra time out of your day to study and to complete webwork assignments. Good luck on the final test, your going to need it!
Hi Jahier! My name is Jaylin(she/her) and I am a current student in MAT 1375. Your letter to yourself is helpful to me because… I am definitely will take up your offer on completing the webwork assignments and getting done to get credit overall for the class. I take that very serious as well and most of definitely trying ace that final exam!!
Hello past self, I’m proud of you for making the decision to take this course and challenge yourself because I know math isn’t your strongest subject. I wish you would’ve studied a bit harder for your first exam but we learn and move forward!! I know all the exams seem intimidating but set aside some time every day to review everything you’ve learned and try to retain as much of it as possible. Don’t neglect your webwork assignments because they’re actually a great resource for studying. Continue to work hard and I wish you the best of luck for the rest of the semester!
I think that i would first tell my self to take the webwork serious. And what i would say to motivate myself is study hard because this is your future. I would want my pass self to that you are capable of learning the assignments and that you can do this. I think throughout the semester there was some points i just got lost but their was also some points that i found hope. And i should have just been confident in my abilities and throughout the class. But studying and doing work for the finals really helped me.
“Hello Virendra Mohandeo! My name is Mitchel Enoe and I am a current student in MAT 1375. Your letter to yourself is helpful to me because I’m re doing this class after not doing well in it the first time, coupled with the fact this is the first time I will have had web work assignment as apart of my class, I feel an understanding towards taking it seriously. I would also like to point how you were really transparent that it wasn’t always easy and you didn’t understand everything but pointing out it not always gonna be like that, which is something I sometimes forget when I’m in the thick of things. I plan to take your works and wisdom as a assistance for the future, thank you
Definitely would tell myself to start working from day one. Review the material daily because as we know, practice is crucial for success.