I've discovered a new joy, that joy is polymer clay. A moment on youtube became my solution to stressful weekend afternoons. Because make-up work and extra-extra credit will take a lot out of a person.
Since the first quarter of school has ended, I've been getting in a lot of cramming with missing and extra work. As bad as it sounds, I've managed to pull an optimus prime and make D's into B's. I'm not exactly satisifed with all my grades. *cough my only C cough* but you know what? whatever.
Honestly, senior year has been the ultimate year. Not a year of parties, illegal fruit beverages and regretful moves only Paris Hilton may commit. There's been so many shared conversations about homework, political party volunteer work and how we manage to get by on those 9/50 scores on tests. In my opinion, it's been so much work. So much has already happened and it was only one quarter of the schoolyear.
Recently I've had a revelation. And what really brought me to this revelation was my mother's recent obsession with horror movies. In the past week she has gotten through The Descent, The Eye, and The Grudge 2. And every single time these movies were playing, I've been freaking out in the same room. (I'm not a big scary movie fan.)
Watching these movies, there are people who let themselves go within the movie. These are the people that lose themselves and "encounter" everything the main character experiences. There are also people who become like the third person of the movie. Frankly sitting on the outside predicting what's going to happen next. I am that kind of person. While "watching" these movies, I'm finding myself predicting who will fall victim to the hideous creatures and when the scary jawless Japanese girl will grab her victims. I thought about it two days after. But in all honesty, two days after was really today.
I found a relation between scary movies and school. Just sharing that statement, it should be pretty obvious. I'm suddenly predicting when things are happening. When homework will be assigned, what certain teachers will make their extra credit policies, and when late work will be accepted. (If it ever ends up getting accepted.) I'm predicting everything like I'm predicting events in scary movies. However It's not only scary movies. It's very possible to find any "prediction revelation" within any movie. Like really bad comedies and Rated G animations. That's why some movies are given the title of being predictable. In some cases, an additional name as a bad movie.
I've been able to relate movies to school. Go me. Movies are very relative to everything to start with though. Dramas, sob stories and cheery animated flicks about the holidays and magical talking fish. We can find ourselves in anything no matter how odd or heroic we find ourselves. Movies are mild depictions from what normal people experience. I experience frantic moments and panic attacks about the ending quartile of my senior year. I saw that in scary movies.
Monday, October 26, 2009
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Handling the daily grind (coffee not included)
Whether you’re an overworked teacher who can’t seem to find a break from nagging students to those nagging students who stoop to any level for extra credit- we can’t escape the workload.
Hiding under an oversized jacket in the corner of the classroom simply won’t take you to a far off country where homework simply doesn’t exist. Planning when to cry about your work anxiety may lessen your stress level, but won’t push your textbooks into a flaming pit of fire. Homework, extra credit projects, and promises we seem to have no capability in keeping: We aren’t magicians. We can’t make work disappear unless we deal with it.
It’s often we find ourselves piling so much un necessary work on top of our actual “needs to be done” tasks. On top of completing a formal Biology lab report, we’re starting another for extra credit. It’s either we’re acting as an overachiever, or that our priorities need a little work.
Re-organizing a class binder may seem helpful, for let’s say binder checks. But making this a goal between studying for an exam and calling college recruiters is absolutely ridiculous. On the surface, keeping our priorities in check seems like an easy thing to do. However when it comes to actually making that list and following it, it’s sucks more than a Hoover vacuum.
It’s hard keeping priorities. Even the most organized and well focused of individuals find themselves find themselves making depression doodles because they missed a deadline or forgot to pick up supplies for a project.
Depression doodles n. 1. The act of displaying one’s miserable feelings into random pictures.
2. When the creation of mushrooms growing out of Raul Castro’s noggin in a visual sense seem to be okay. (God bless Cuba)
Now those empty promises that were spoken about earlier are mistakes many make. Teachers who agree to watch a classroom while the teacher of that class takes a trip to the restroom is a somewhat of a promise. But when that teacher doesn’t keep their side of the agreement, thirty one Latin American Studies students go missing.
This particular promise works well into leadership positions as well. Like President Obama, his promise on doing something positive towards the fight for gay marriage hasn’t happened yet. Promising your advisor or instructor something puts quite a lot on the line: your reputation as the position holder and your relationship with those above you. So if you can’t do something and you know you can’t, don’t promise it’s going to happen.
Even delegating the work to others won’t completely make responsibility evaporate into thin air. You’re now responsible for that delegate. You now have the responsibility of a mother. Perfect.
Running away is the best option when being chased by a grizzly bear. And wearing moisturizing lotion may be the best option for preventing dry and flaky skin. But when it comes to work, we need to step up and deal with it. No matter how unpleasant and difficult it may be, if it’s your responsibility, be the good guy in your Wild West tale. Face it.
Asking for help is never looked down upon. If it’s a large amount of homework assignments, talking to your teachers personally about what’s up isn’t a bad idea. Simply making others aware of your work (without complaining) may get you offered help or valued advice.
Taking time to really consolidate and distress our minds will definitely give individuals a jump start on getting started. We all have tough weeks. Whether you’re that overworked teacher or that student who won’t stop nagging, everyone has their busy weeks. Those weeks when staying in bed sounds like a great idea. But we have responsibilities to others and ourselves. So just breathe, relax, and sticky note it. We won’t be able to escape “the daily grind”, we just need to charge it head-on with confidence and preparedness. It’ll make novels a little less long and clouds a little fluffier.
When I handle work, it's a rollercoaster ride. I have my many ups and downs and days when i end up falling out of the coaster car. However regardless of how many hours I cry or how many pages are required to be annotated, I pick myself up-like pudding cup.
Hiding under an oversized jacket in the corner of the classroom simply won’t take you to a far off country where homework simply doesn’t exist. Planning when to cry about your work anxiety may lessen your stress level, but won’t push your textbooks into a flaming pit of fire. Homework, extra credit projects, and promises we seem to have no capability in keeping: We aren’t magicians. We can’t make work disappear unless we deal with it.
It’s often we find ourselves piling so much un necessary work on top of our actual “needs to be done” tasks. On top of completing a formal Biology lab report, we’re starting another for extra credit. It’s either we’re acting as an overachiever, or that our priorities need a little work.
Re-organizing a class binder may seem helpful, for let’s say binder checks. But making this a goal between studying for an exam and calling college recruiters is absolutely ridiculous. On the surface, keeping our priorities in check seems like an easy thing to do. However when it comes to actually making that list and following it, it’s sucks more than a Hoover vacuum.
It’s hard keeping priorities. Even the most organized and well focused of individuals find themselves find themselves making depression doodles because they missed a deadline or forgot to pick up supplies for a project.
Depression doodles n. 1. The act of displaying one’s miserable feelings into random pictures.
2. When the creation of mushrooms growing out of Raul Castro’s noggin in a visual sense seem to be okay. (God bless Cuba)
Now those empty promises that were spoken about earlier are mistakes many make. Teachers who agree to watch a classroom while the teacher of that class takes a trip to the restroom is a somewhat of a promise. But when that teacher doesn’t keep their side of the agreement, thirty one Latin American Studies students go missing.
This particular promise works well into leadership positions as well. Like President Obama, his promise on doing something positive towards the fight for gay marriage hasn’t happened yet. Promising your advisor or instructor something puts quite a lot on the line: your reputation as the position holder and your relationship with those above you. So if you can’t do something and you know you can’t, don’t promise it’s going to happen.
Even delegating the work to others won’t completely make responsibility evaporate into thin air. You’re now responsible for that delegate. You now have the responsibility of a mother. Perfect.
Running away is the best option when being chased by a grizzly bear. And wearing moisturizing lotion may be the best option for preventing dry and flaky skin. But when it comes to work, we need to step up and deal with it. No matter how unpleasant and difficult it may be, if it’s your responsibility, be the good guy in your Wild West tale. Face it.
Asking for help is never looked down upon. If it’s a large amount of homework assignments, talking to your teachers personally about what’s up isn’t a bad idea. Simply making others aware of your work (without complaining) may get you offered help or valued advice.
Taking time to really consolidate and distress our minds will definitely give individuals a jump start on getting started. We all have tough weeks. Whether you’re that overworked teacher or that student who won’t stop nagging, everyone has their busy weeks. Those weeks when staying in bed sounds like a great idea. But we have responsibilities to others and ourselves. So just breathe, relax, and sticky note it. We won’t be able to escape “the daily grind”, we just need to charge it head-on with confidence and preparedness. It’ll make novels a little less long and clouds a little fluffier.
When I handle work, it's a rollercoaster ride. I have my many ups and downs and days when i end up falling out of the coaster car. However regardless of how many hours I cry or how many pages are required to be annotated, I pick myself up-like pudding cup.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
At least 200 words please
College application essays are the absolute worst. Oh yes, they are. The simplest questions..
"Why do you feel like you belong at this academy?"
"What made you consider applying?"
"How do you get the cheese in stuffed crust pizza?"
Sadly putting it out there, I've started on neither of my essays. This includes my big congressional essays due at the end of this month. They only require about 200 words, but like I've explained..these questions are mind-numbing.
However, I don't see why college application essays are necessary. Colleges should be focusing on the scholastic information, such as GPA and SAT/ACT scores. It's just putting way too much stress on potential applicants. Writing these essays aren't that easy.
Why? because answering the question simply is never enough. NEVER.
It's important that applicants write and make themselves "stand out". Making them seem way better than everyone and their mothers. But honestly, how do you do that? How am i supposed to do that?
"My dream has always been to attend such an outstanding institute and grasp on such a challenging educational program. I strive at everything I do and hope in one day calling your campus my own. I also hope in achieving as a national scholar and as a proffesional Australian Mini-Octopus handler. Tentacles were always a passion of mine."
The truth is always 99.55% boring and bland. Mini-Octopuses could definitely catch the attention of any alumni for sure.
"Why do you feel like you belong at this academy?"
"What made you consider applying?"
"How do you get the cheese in stuffed crust pizza?"
Sadly putting it out there, I've started on neither of my essays. This includes my big congressional essays due at the end of this month. They only require about 200 words, but like I've explained..these questions are mind-numbing.
However, I don't see why college application essays are necessary. Colleges should be focusing on the scholastic information, such as GPA and SAT/ACT scores. It's just putting way too much stress on potential applicants. Writing these essays aren't that easy.
Why? because answering the question simply is never enough. NEVER.
It's important that applicants write and make themselves "stand out". Making them seem way better than everyone and their mothers. But honestly, how do you do that? How am i supposed to do that?
"My dream has always been to attend such an outstanding institute and grasp on such a challenging educational program. I strive at everything I do and hope in one day calling your campus my own. I also hope in achieving as a national scholar and as a proffesional Australian Mini-Octopus handler. Tentacles were always a passion of mine."
The truth is always 99.55% boring and bland. Mini-Octopuses could definitely catch the attention of any alumni for sure.
Mini epiphany
I'm extremely stressed. Which explains the incompletions of many of my assignments and why i started to schedule parts in my day to cry. (I've sunk that low.) I realize that all this stress that seems to have no control, actually does. It's channeling itself through little activities and habits i enjoy doing everyday, Student life definitely bums me out, so keeping these daily-do's going will only make me less crazy i hope.
My thoughts in list format:
Investing on a mini-snack
Being a part of my schools academic programs and numerous clubs and organizations, it’s difficult for me to stick to a healthy sleep cycle. As a result I recieve less time to prepare in the morning. Thus missing out on the most important meal of the day. Simply splurging on one or two snacks during our cafeteria time may fill the void- possibly a solid form of happiness for the day. Yogurt with granola is nice. It’s not only healthy and fun to eat, but it definitely calms your mind when you’re freaking out about your recruiter meeting later on that day.
Re-living the past
Everyone at some point in their lives find themselves dwelling on their childhood. Which explains the increase in sales on cartoon depicted backpacks we’ve seen around the hallways. But I stand by this when I say that thinking back really brings us back to happier and simpler times. When college was only a thing parents would talk about and school was only about coloring in between the lines.
Keeping a couple of Spongebob Squarepants pencils in our backpacks or watching PBS Kids on Saturday mornings doesn’t make us weird. It simply takes us back where our current worries were never our own. Doing so now as a high school student releases the desire to procrastinate. So instead of not studying for a Biology exam, take a couple minutes sticking your Mickey Mouse pencil toppers on your pencils that you received back in grade school.
Fluorescent little friends
Now that you know you’re drowning in schoolwork and you think nothing could ever go right, investing in physically organizing yourself is a good plan to fall on. Sometimes writing in your planner isn’t good enough. You may write a few notes and assignments down but may never come across it till two days later. Investing your savings on sticky notes is the best idea since stoplights. Being able to not only write “to-do’s” on mini and fluorescent pieces of paper is not only an exhilarating rush, you can stick them anywhere! You can place them on your textbooks, in your lockers, and on your room door. No more writing on the palms of your hands, these mini reminders are a good habit to keep.
Focusing on the smaller and insignificant things make students feel more significant and simpler than it probably really isn’t. The stress will always build up and become much more difficult to deal with only depending on how the individual can handle it. If a person can take time out of their busy day to watch one Reading Rainbow re-run or make an Oreo cookie tower, their minds gain the ability to recharge. Giving them a fresh start from being stressed, to lighthearted, and back to feeling stressed again (but with a little less unhappy.)
Yay!
My thoughts in list format:
Investing on a mini-snack
Being a part of my schools academic programs and numerous clubs and organizations, it’s difficult for me to stick to a healthy sleep cycle. As a result I recieve less time to prepare in the morning. Thus missing out on the most important meal of the day. Simply splurging on one or two snacks during our cafeteria time may fill the void- possibly a solid form of happiness for the day. Yogurt with granola is nice. It’s not only healthy and fun to eat, but it definitely calms your mind when you’re freaking out about your recruiter meeting later on that day.
Re-living the past
Everyone at some point in their lives find themselves dwelling on their childhood. Which explains the increase in sales on cartoon depicted backpacks we’ve seen around the hallways. But I stand by this when I say that thinking back really brings us back to happier and simpler times. When college was only a thing parents would talk about and school was only about coloring in between the lines.
Keeping a couple of Spongebob Squarepants pencils in our backpacks or watching PBS Kids on Saturday mornings doesn’t make us weird. It simply takes us back where our current worries were never our own. Doing so now as a high school student releases the desire to procrastinate. So instead of not studying for a Biology exam, take a couple minutes sticking your Mickey Mouse pencil toppers on your pencils that you received back in grade school.
Fluorescent little friends
Now that you know you’re drowning in schoolwork and you think nothing could ever go right, investing in physically organizing yourself is a good plan to fall on. Sometimes writing in your planner isn’t good enough. You may write a few notes and assignments down but may never come across it till two days later. Investing your savings on sticky notes is the best idea since stoplights. Being able to not only write “to-do’s” on mini and fluorescent pieces of paper is not only an exhilarating rush, you can stick them anywhere! You can place them on your textbooks, in your lockers, and on your room door. No more writing on the palms of your hands, these mini reminders are a good habit to keep.
Focusing on the smaller and insignificant things make students feel more significant and simpler than it probably really isn’t. The stress will always build up and become much more difficult to deal with only depending on how the individual can handle it. If a person can take time out of their busy day to watch one Reading Rainbow re-run or make an Oreo cookie tower, their minds gain the ability to recharge. Giving them a fresh start from being stressed, to lighthearted, and back to feeling stressed again (but with a little less unhappy.)
Yay!
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