Class Reflection #1

Have you ever felt like you were the odd man out in a group? Well welcome to my life, while I am in my College Student Development class. I feel like everyone else is getting what is going on with the theories and I am being left in the dust, with a look of confusion on my face. 

I think the main problem that I am having is that all the theories are sounding just alike to me. They may have teeny tiny differences, but overall they are saying the same thing. This overwhelming feeling is worse when I am reading the chapters outside of class. I really do not understand most of them while I am reading in preparation for the class. Since I do not understand any of them and how they are supposed to be implemented I feel like I am coming to class unprepared and in a worse off condition that I be in if I did not read. 

Once I am in class, the understanding of the theories is much clearer, as Dr. A is able to summarize the theories’ components in one sentence, or one theme. After I get that one theme, I am able to fill in what the authors of the book where trying to accomplish in the first place. This makes me realize that the problem with the theories is more me than anything else. I am still in an adjustment phase as to how the information can be best obtained for me to get real meaning out of them.

I do I have a problem for almost all the women theories that we have gone over though, as I do not understand how they only pertain to women. I feel like every single woman themed theory can be applied to the male masses, if need be. I understand the need for these theories a few decades ago, but now I feel like using them would be more of a step backward than a step forward.