I would like to introduce you to Abdulaziz Usman. He is a 15-year-old first year student here at Georgia state university. He spent most of his life here in Georgia. Abdulaziz attended many different k-12 schools, simply because the schools in his area wasn’t good, that it lacked good education. He chose Georgia state because it is close to him. He started college right after high school because he didn’t want to waste any time and to finish school early so he can have a jump start in his career. Abdulaziz is going to get his degree in computer science then later get his bachelors.       

         Three words that describes Abdlaziz academic self is Determined, curious and worrisome. He is determined to do his best in all his class and make all A’s and B’s. Although he wants to learn new things, he is worried because he is not so sure if he is doing the assignments right, or if he understands the materials that is given to him. Abdlaziz quickly realized that college isn’t the same as high school, where in high school he didn’t have to try harder, and the learning came easier to him. He wasn’t fully preparing for how different college was and the amount of adapting he had to do. Later he knew that if he wanted to do right in college, he needs to put in more time to study. Make more effort into doing his work and be engaged in class time.

         Abdlaziz said after learning about the 5-step study cycle he saw an improvement in his work, and he felt more confident. He stated working harder and continued to do his best. He realized if he wants to do his best, he got to put fourth all the hard work to not only make himself proud but his family. Abdlaziz determination made him a better student now. He is always looking for more opportunity to improve his academic self. He Is now looking at his academic self and he proud of it, this made him more motivated. The way he stared the semester off nothing was going right for him, all the work he did he felt as if it was worthless and wanted to give up, but he remember is family and all the hard work they did to make him have a better life and education. This made him not to give up but only to work harder.

      Although abdlaziz and I came from different background we are much similar. We both went through tuff times in school, where we wanted to give up, frustrated on how much college was hard. We didn’t let this small set back fail us, it motivated us to do better make ourselves and families proud. This is a lesson learned and we will continue to better in school.

Work cited

Usman, Abdlaziz. Interview. By Isatu Diallo 3 February 2022