“I Pay Attention”
Jeremiah Meadows says, “I pay attention”. His smiling is warm, his mode attentive, together with in that place is non a shred of dubiety he is paying attention, processing, thinking together with planning. When asked if he would hold upwardly willing to come upwardly dorsum to Reynolds inward May to verbalise most his sense at VCU where he is headed inward January, he pulls out his telephone together with sets upwardly a calendar reminder. Impressive.
Jeremiah admittedly wasn’t ever passionate most academics. He was dwelling identify schooled together with didn’t acquire a skillful perspective on the value of didactics until after when he began exploring his ain ideas together with interests. Jeremiah has been on his ain financially since he turned 20.
Jeremiah’s showtime existent classroom sense came at Reynolds. For a pupil who had struggled for years to acquire independently, to solve his ain problems together with respond his ain questions without the produce goodness of teachers, coming inward to a welcoming surroundings that offered a community of learners was the spark that laid his honey of learning on fire. He said, “Now I acquire into every score gear upwardly to acquire together with engaged. Whether or non the dependent is straight related to my studies [biology!] doesn’t matter, I tin ever accept away a lesson.”
Jeremiah, similar many of the Honors Students, said he delayed going to college until he knew what he wanted to do. He needed a goal. Instead of heading to college – the easier path that his parents supported – he went to work. He had been working since historic menses xiv together with hence the choice seemed clear. By the fourth dimension he knew what he wanted to produce for the residue of his life he had worked inward a hardware store, for an answering service, equally a server at a resort, together with equally a 911 dispatcher. Currently he plant xx hours each calendar week for Chesterfield County inward improver to carrying a course of instruction charge of 12 or thirteen credit hours. 10 of those credit hours are Honors Courses. Again, impressive.
Now that it’s fourth dimension to move out Reynolds, Jeremiah is reluctant to go. “My sense at Reynolds has been together with hence incredible. The professors conduct maintain made a huge difference. I am together with hence grateful for the relationships I conduct maintain made amongst them. They conduct maintain ever been willing to assist together with they produce a fantastic project of teaching. What I conduct maintain learned hither is together with hence valuable. Not only what is inward the textbooks, but for example, Professor Teresa Creech’s score word format sharpened my analytical skills together with Professor Robert Tyson opened my eyes to my path inward life. Then in that place is the community of learners who inspired me, kept me on track, together with became my friends. It’s really difficult to move out these relationships.”
To whatsoever pupil thinking most coming to Reynolds, Jeremiah had this to say: “Reynolds is a really welcoming environment. It’s non judgmental. Students are gratuitous to hold upwardly themselves, to explore together with limited ideas. There is much less pressure. Reynolds is a smart choice for many reasons, for sure financially, but to a greater extent than important, it is a smart choice academically.”
Best of luck to you, Jeremiah. Your professors together with swain students are going to missy y'all terribly, but no dubiety they volition hold upwardly glad they knew you.
Jeremiah Meadows graduates from Reynolds inward Dec equally an Honors Scholar. The Honors Scholar designation agency Jeremiah has completed the total Honors curriculum together with is eligible, per Reynolds transfer agreements, for direct admission to VCU or JMU Honors College.
Earlier this semester, when asked most his futurity plans, Jeremiah had this to say: “My transfer to VCU this bound (2018) is underway, where I volition double-major inward Political Science together with Philosophy. After that, my course of instruction could alter or divert. Currently, I want to attend Harvard Law School after I have my baccalaureate degree. However, I could observe myself on an academic path toward a deeper pursuit of philosophical report where I may acquire to graduate schoolhouse for the discipline. My main finish for my futurity career is to operate toward eliminating the stark socioeconomic inequality that exists both within together with exterior of the United States.”
