Reflection 1
This semester, I learned that I have been living on procrastination planet for a long time and I didn’t even realize it. My daily routine would be this: Come home from school, read a book for the whole day and crunch all my homework frantically in an hour or two before I go to bed. Sometimes I would have to stay up very late to do a project that I completely forgot about. This was very stressful for me. However, it wasn’t until I had to write a long paper in English class that I realized how bad I was at doing things on time. The paper’s prompt was “What is Language of Power?” To get close to answering this, the class had to read many articles and stories about different cultures, countries and languages. This included lots of homework like summaries and outlines of these stories. I soon realized that my system of homework would not work for this paper. And I hadn’t even written the paper yet!
In the past, I always thought I was the victim in terms of homework. “Oh, it’s not my fault I had to stay up late,” I would say to myself. “I was working so hard at school that I HAVE to have a break when I get home. It’s just the homework’s fault for being so long.” But I didn’t realize that I was just making things harder for myself by doing all my homework all at once, instead of spreading it out. But I eventually learned that if I do a little bit at a time things are much better. I turned in my paper sort of without problems, and everything was fine. So now, when things get more challenging in school, I will have a good system of getting my homework over with as soon as I can, and enjoying the rest of my day. If it wasn’t for that English paper, I never would have learned this and I would be stuck in my stressful planet forever. |
Reflection 2
This semester, I learned that I am surprisingly good at writing sonnets. A sonnet is like a poem, but it is written in iambic pentameter, (which is ten syllables per line). Also it has a rhyme scheme of every other line rhyming. (Line one rhyming with line three, and line two and four rhyming.) I had never thought about writing sonnets before, but when we were assigned to write one in class, I had a very good time writing a criticizing sonnet about the famous play that we were reading, “Romeo and Juliet.” It was about how there are too many hormones in the play and how people should just take it slow and stop worrying about getting married so soon. There were also a lot of drama queens in that play. Maybe that’s why a lot of people died; the universe was getting tired of everyone thinking that the whole world revolved around one couple. But I digress. One of my primary goals in life is to be able to write beautiful music. I don’t have to make a lot of money from it, but I just want to write a song that will sound good. I think if I write more sonnets, this will develop my song writing. I could even write a song in a sonnet form. But then again, I may not even write a song with sonnets. Maybe I will write an entire play in iambic pentameter. The product may not be very good, but it will still be an interesting experience. I would learn so much about myself and the world by writing something like that. Maybe, someone will write a criticizing poem about me afterwards.
With this new tool I have acquired, I can spend my time writing things instead of sitting around becoming a human potato. That is all anyone ever needs. |