Me as a Student

Learning Style

In the past, I rarely studied outside of class and relied almost entirely on what I absorbed during lectures. This "strategy" served me well—until I met my academic match: Calculus. Suddenly, I had no idea what was going on, and my first C in high school made me seriously reconsider my approach to studying. I started taking notes during class, and that worked for a while—until it didn’t. Next, I turned to watching videos after class to reinforce the material, but even that began to fall short. Eventually, I discovered that teaching the material to someone else helped me retain information far better than any method I had tried before. Explaining concepts out loud, often with animated gestures, became my new go-to strategy. This experience perfectly aligns with the results of the VARK learning style assessment I recently completed, which confirmed what I had already begun to suspect—I’m very much a kinesthetic learner.