Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Change of Mind: School

Over the last three years of high school, I pushed myself from day to day to get my homework done and to make sure that I studied for every single test. Because of this continuous routine that I was stuck in, I thought that my senior year of high school was going to be exactly the same. However, during the first few days of school this year I reflected upon my previous years in GBS and came to realize that everything I supposedly "learned" during this period had been someone lost. Even though I got pretty good grades, i must of not learned a lot.
For this reason, I have decided to go through my senior year with a different approach. Instead of actually trying to get good grades in my classes, I'm actually going to make sure that i understand and remember the things the things I learn in them because getting an A in a class doesn't necessarily mean that your remember the material. Grades are not a measure of accountability and are therefore pretty much irrelevant my learning process, that is why i have decided to stop caring so much about them and start caring more about the important elements that my classes offer.

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