This week has been an experience. On Monday, we set our reading rate, which I thought I would be able to accomplish as I'm usually good at keeping up with school work as it's given and not falling behind. I was very wrong. See, I forgot to factor in that I'm a swimmer, a team captain, a club president, a Sunday morning church service and Sunday night youth group attendee, a math class homework do-er, a psychology 100 nightly study-er, and many other things all while trying to include a healthy social life and sleep schedule. With all these things combined, I found it much harder than I'd previously thought to keep on task with my SSR book for AP Lit.
I learned many things this week that were important in class, but the one thing that seems to be sticking out to me the most wasn't a class lesson at all, but a life lesson. In the beginning of the week, Mr. Schoenborn said something that remained in my head for the rest of the week and probably will remain in my head forever; "You're always going to be busy, so it's pointless to make excuses.". You're probably wondering why I didn't listen to his words if they stuck out to me, but then you and I would be in the same boat. Overall, this week I had a very hard time juggling my involvement outside of school with the necessary time and focus I should've committed to completing school work and reading my SSR book. As i go into this next week, I won't be any less busy, but I'm going to try my absolute hardest to prioritize better and to accomplish more than I did during the second week of AP Lit. It's very important to me to maintain my work ethic and the respect I've built up from various teachers over the years because of it, and in a way I feel like I've failed myself in this class by not reaching the goals I've set so far. The moral of this post is that I learned a very valuable lesson in time management, and it's ironic but symbolic that I wore a watch for the first time today because it marks the start of me actually using it. See article Too-Busy Teens Feel Health Toll from the Washington Post by clicking the link below.
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Ben
9/26/2017 02:33:09 pm
Hey again!
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