Thirteenth Mile of My Learning Marathon

Review of last week

It felt like last week went in a blink of an eye. It felt like that because we missed a lot of lessons due to various reasons. For example, there were lots of teachers that weren’t able to come to school due to illness of their children and scheduled meetings. It is clearly not their fault that they couldn’t make it to the lesson and I cannot blame them for it. Things like this happen all the time in all schools. An aftereffect of this happening is that the teacher goes behind on the teaching of the class because the things that are meant to be taught in the lesson that was missed will be taught in the next lesson making the students behind on the learning. However, as a student you can make the most of this in a way that will benefit your education instead of taking it as a day off. As a student you can make the most of it by going to the library and working on things that are due soon. You can also take the time to go and research things that will help you understand the current topic that you are working on. The research also helps deepen your understanding on the task. I can also get the time to complete assignments earlier than other students in the class. This would give a great advantage to me because if I submit my work earlier than everyone else in the class it means that it will get marked quicker than anyone else in the class which is better because the teacher would not be marking a lot of work which means that their memory would be better.

Since this is the half way mark I am very proud of all my achievements so far in my very first term of college. I thank God that I can say that I have completed all my assignments without any of them being late or being referred. This would help motivate me because I would like to keep up the good work. I have also being acknowledged for my good work by the head of I.T. I believe the reason why I have passed all my assignments is because of my blog that I keep up to date. The reason why I say this is because my blog allows me to reflect on the past week and assignments makes me think about what went wrong in my assignments and how to improve them. What I am trying to say is that my blog allows me to evaluate and take my time to think about things that I wouldn’t normally think about.

I am also going to take this halfway mark to tell you something that I haven’t really spoke too much about even though it is something that I should include in my blog every week. I should give you an update on how I am doing in maths every week. This is something that I don’t do because I am not really where I want to be at maths at the moment. I am not the type of person to admit things like this but here we go “I am struggling at maths” this bothers me so much that I am waking with cold sweats at night. I am only joking but it does really bother me. Failure scares me. I also do not like to talk about my progress in maths because when I struggle in I.T I know how to fix the problem or the right track to solving the problem but in maths I am just confused about everything. What scares me the most is that I don’t want to feel like I wasted a year in college next year.

Development
In order for me to develop I believe I need to start to start critically thinking about how to progress in maths. For example, I can devote a paragraph in my blog to talk about how my maths is going every week and the problems and how I can solve. I believe this would put me on the right track. I can actually develop my maths by actually practicing it which is something that I have not done. While I can develop in I.T by making sure that I use my free time responsibly.