First day of school was a relief for me I was happy to be back to school for two reasons.1. that being I finally get to hang out with my friends after not seeing them all summer. 2. I worked all summer, I'm not talking about that weak easy work nah that hard back-breaking, Bending over, heavy lifting field work and I mean it when I say I worked all summer everyday 6 A:M to 5 P:M. It was a huge relief for me after going threw that experience. I go to my classes you know to see what the courses are about,learning my teachers name,and meeting new friends then time to go to my 5th period and it's my English. Walking towards the classroom I was curious how my classmates would be like. Probably really smart and competitive considering this is an AP class. I was also wondering how my teacher was going to be like is he old, young,cool,mean. All that was running threw my mind as I walked in and as I walked in (I was one of the first to walk in) I see a bunch of seats in like a circle and decided to take a seat to the corner close to the teacher. I honestly just choice randomly were to sit. I didn't notice but there was a guy sitting next to me (which was Leo) and I was thinking OK a new friend. I'd say like two minutes had passed and began to notice wow there are bunch of girls I mean a bunch of girls and was like wow there are only girls in the class not that it's bad but I expected a balance between boys and girls not a class majority of girls but I stopped caring after 5 minutes because I had remembered that last year in my English class the same thing happend.
You know I've always thought of my self as a hard worker although I get lazy if I'm not pushed or I think that the task isn't worth my time but when I believe it really counts I'm ready to put in 1000000% effort into it. I was really anxious to see what was going to happen and how my new AP teacher was going to be like and like that everything took a dive like jumping off plane kind of dive. I honestly didn't expect that he would give us the option (When I'm talking about he I'm talking about you Dr. Preston if you didn't know:) ) the option whether to have a regular English class or a new kind of course that I didn't know was a type of teaching method. Which was open-source learning and of course everyone choose the open-source maybe because we were bored of the same old learning style that we were accustom too. I didn't know what type of class work we would get and was anxious to know what would be. I never guessed what would it be and turns out it would be journals and blog posts.
I never thought that journals and blogs would be the type of class work that we would get and never expected a open-source course it was all out of nowhere and you know when you get hit out of nowhere you fall don't know what to do and how to react to it that's how it was for me the first couple of weeks into the semester. At first doing the blogs was easy because we were asked to do easy things and the journals was cake but as things progressed the work load started to pile up and things started to get hard for me. When we were asked to memorize "Richard Cory" and post blogs I started to fall behind on them. The lectures we were given were hard for me to capture and understanding them. Like at times I was thinking what are we talking about and learning about I didn't know how to react and fell even more behind. We read "The Right To Your Own Opinion" and honestly I didn't know what the reading was talking about not until a couple day later when I asked a friend for help. Things just didn't click the first two months. Then we had a vocab test on literature terms which honestly I didn't study until the day before of the test and somehow manged to remember almost everything expect Syntax.
Some time passed and we were asked to write a grade for your own self assessment and I wrote an c- because I fell behind on a lot of the journals and post. I felt bad for myself telling myself, "come on Jeff you could way better than this why are doing this to yourself your only hurting yourself and your own grades because of you." At the time the work load from my classes started to pile up because I got lazy even in this class I felt like doing nothing at one point. My laziness and procrastination hit me like a truck I felt like I could do all my work later but didn't do it. Another reason for this was because I was burnt out of the school junior year is defiantly different from the other years. When I was writing the grade a deserved I thought In my head, "dude you need to step up your game, you are only the cause of your grade not anyone else" I go threw the rest of the day kind of bumped out. During the weekend I was spacing out listening to music then It hits me like I don't know how but it hit me I started to do my work and catch up to it. I wonder what made me click. Was it because of the refection that I made or because of how I remembered that I was a junior and this year really counts. But It really just clicked and I began to plan ahead to certain times I would plan out my classwork, homework,study time, and chill time. I really learned a lot from that experience honestly I hadn't gone threw that I would not have learned to mange my own time Speaking of managing your own time when we learned about managing you own time that I didn't think I would really use it but who knew that I would start to use and apply that to my life even after school. For that I would like to thank you Dr. Preston for teaching us. THANK YOU!
Looking back at what I learned as a student I really think that I have changed a lot thanks to this kind of situations that I'm put in. I learned to apart to the situation that I'm put and able to see that come of what I choose to do weather it be to do or not do school work I know what could be the outcome of choosing my own destiny. I also had a lot of fun in the class like that one time Dr. Preston told that one story that was made up and ended up yelling at my face or the other time he got really close to my face that all fun because my other class wouldn't do those kind of things that this course does. Then when It comes to writing I could really go off and start to write a bunch especially in the journal where if the topic catches my attention then I'm going to a lot of writing into it.
I've definitely grown since the beginning of the semester and got a lot better at my writing and learned to express my self in a way that doesn't bore the reader, although I still long ways to go since this is just the beginning of a new learning experience that will allow me to improve and apply my learning to real life like I've done so far. I'm definitely looking forward for the next semester to learn some more.
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