As bad as it sounds to say, I feel like I didn't learn that much this week besides some things here and there about point of view which I hadn't learned before, probably since we've been writing our group essays pretty much all week. Also, I had an experience myself in which I had to look at something through someone else's, and vise versa. I know that's not really the kind of point of view we were talking about for our essay, but still. It counts.
Also, this week i got sent a contract to work at my summer camp for half of next summer. It's a job I've wanted my whole life, so I don't know why I'm suddenly getting cold feet, but I am. It sounds so exciting and great, but on the other hand it'll probably be the scariest, most independent thing I've ever done. I'm going to be challenged in my faith and my mental abilities, while also trying to keep someone else's 7-9 year olds alive for a week, which is absolutely terrifying. What if I'm not good enough? What if I'm the youngest counselor there and nobody tries to be friends with me? What if it's the loneliest five weeks of my life, when I could be at home spending time with my friends before college? On that note, what if my friends forget about me while I'm gone and we lose touch? So today, when I went to accept the contract I was sent, I didn't accept it. I didn't decline it either, so I think I'm just going to let it marinate for a while and pray about it too. I really want this job, but I think it's an opportunity cost thing. I don't really know what I want anymore and that scares me, but I really just hope I make the right choice in the end. On the bright side, though, I'd be making money- which would be nice because I've never had a job before and I'd have some spending money for college. That doesn't necessarily outweigh the things I'm scared of missing back home, like time with my sister and my friends before I leave them for four years, but that could all just be things that could hold me back from having the best five weeks of my life. This wasn't really about what I learned in class and I apologize for that, but it's something that's been on my mind and writing about it felt like the right way to get it out. I did learn stuff this week though, I promise. Click the button below to read an article about the job of a camp counselor, which I legitimately read in my free time yesterday while trying to decide if the job was right for me. Also pray for my grade because this is a very low quality and irrelevent blog post and I can already see my grade going down because of it. The end.
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This week the biggest thing (and only thing) I felt that I was able to take away was from the talk that the author gave about his experience with effective writing and how we could apply it to our own. Before this week, I'm now realizing that I wasn't writing effectively at all, and this kind of goes along with a lesson my psychology professor taught in effective studying last week.
First of all, I learned that your writing space should be your writing space. From the author, I learned that you should have one designated spot for your writing to take place, whether that be a home office, desk, or just a quiet spot for exclusively writing only to happen. I think he brought up a good point, because, for example, if I were to write in the kitchen, I'd usually get sidetracked and eat a snack or something. To go along with that, my psych professor talked about a similar topic last week, but with studying, and I think they go together well. She told us that in order to effectively study, you must place yourself somewhere where other things don't happen. She said not to study in your room because that's where you sleep, so consequently you'll be thinking more about sleeping than studying and become too tired to get your work done. Along those same lines, there are certain things you shouldn't do while studying in your study space to avoid creating distractions that can become habits. For example, when you find a new study space, you should avoid bringing any electronics in this area so that you never have that distraction in the first place. Once your brain knows that your phone is sitting next to you and you can check it whenever you want, your thoughts will drift to that instead of your studying (or writing) just because you originally brought it into your study space at all. Another example would be food- if you introduce food into your study space, all you will ever think about when you're there is eating snacks. Overall, I think that these two lessons learned in different classes go together very well. I think that in order to study effectively you must do certain things to avoid distractions, and I think that in your writing space you must do the same. You must almost set rules for yourself when you first establish a writing space so that food, electronics, and other distractions don't cause you to lose your focus and make you less productive in your writing and studying. This week taught me many lessons about how to be a less distracted and effective writer, and I will definitely take them with me as I move forward. Click the button below to read about more ways to create an effective writing space. I don't really know where to start out with my blog this week. I did learn a lot of things, and I could write a lot about how I learned to revise my pieces by commenting on them, but there's another topic that isn't sitting well with me that I want to write about.
I've noticed a reoccurring topic and literature and poetry, and it's sex. Coming from a conservative, Christian point of view, the use of sex as a casual topic for many of the poems and pieces we read in class is kind of concerning. Of course I know that this is something that is relevant in many of my peers lives and I'm not here to judge them for doing things that are below my personal standards, but I'm having a hard time understanding why class is somewhere appropriate to be constantly talking about sex like it's a casual topic. Over the last two weeks my friend and I have had many conversations about this, and I've compiled a list of things in my head that would be more worthwhile to write about in poetry and present to a group of teenagers than sex, so I'm going to list them here to add more words to my blog and stress how inappropriate and out of context the poetry and literature containing the topic of sex is in this class. We could listen to poetry about dogs, family, nature, food, skydiving, babies, farmers, etc. Okay so these aren't really relevant or interesting topics either, but they still are more appropriate to talk about in a classroom that's not health class. |
Kayla Campbell
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