spring break or school work

This past week was my week to catch up on my schooling and I have seemed to dug myself into a hole again. I have three response papers  for my online class, a project fro communications, astronomy work, and an essay. My time was mainly spent goofing off and sleeping, when I was supposed to be focusing on school work. I had managed to get part of my project done, but that is is nothing else was looked over. So I know that this week and next week I am going to find myself stuck with doing work that I should have already done, but was to lazy to do especially during spring break. During spring break you do not want to work on or even think about school, you mainly just want to have time to relax or have fun. This is what my mentality was during the past week, I kept repeating and telling myself I have until the next day or this day; and look where that got me piled up with work. I am going to have to try to put all my effort and attention on school work this week and get as much done as I can possible. There is a feeling in the pit of my stomach that this is going to be another week where I am going to be up past one in the morning. So even though my spring break was kind of a win or lose situation, it was still very fun. 

Study Week

Last week was the first week in a long time were I had to study for a long period of time for a test. My test was not until today March 13th; but I was not going to be here during the weekend to study for my test, so I challenged myself to study the whole school week. I would study from eight at night to until about four in the morning. To study I would sit in my study room for almost the whole night and try to focus on my study guide. One type of study hack I have is I will listen to classical music. It may sound weird, but it actually works; for my anthropology final last semester I tried it out, I myself did not believe that it would work but it actually did. My test grade came out as a high 90% and I did not believe that the hack would actually work. Everyone would tell me I was crazy for staying up late at night, but I had to do what I had to do; because I was in San Francisco during the weekend. Even during some of the days when my classes did not start until eleven I would get up early, during that whole week I was exhausted. My sleeping schedule was completely messed up, I did not know how I was alive and paying attention in any of my classes while I was running on a couple hours of sleep each day. It was hard for me to go from having fun to then studying for hours. One problem that I had while studying was my roommates. I did not know how big of a problem they were going to be when it came to my studying time. They were being really loud and obnoxious while I was trying to study and focus on trying to do good on my first Astronomy exam. After taking the test I feel like I did alright that my time I spent studying really helped me.

Math Class

This semester I knew that I was going to be in a higher math class, then what I was in last semester. My first semester I was put in math 103, which is like algebra one type of math. I was really good in that class I had a B, and every test I would receive would be easy for me to understand; even our final was easy, I did not even need the cheat sheet we were allowed to have. Now that I'm in this class I find it really difficult. Math has never been my best subject, I have always had a B to C average grade, especially when I got into high school and now college. The math I am learning is math 106, which is basically algebra two. I had this class my senior year in high school and I was alright, but this is way different; I am beginning to do poorly. The professor mainly bases our work off of worksheets, which are also our notes. Some of the material he expects us to know, even how to solve the confusing equations that we have never seen before. I am used to being taught were you take notes first, get a worksheet or assignment, then are tested. So when I first arrived to the class I was very confused on why our notes were worksheets. This class I feel is just another one that is going to bring me down and that I will have to retake AGAIN. We recently took an exam in the class and my score was nothing that I expected it to be, I thought I was going to get something way worse; I received an sixty-nine and a quarter grade. I told my self that the grade is not bad, but I know I can do better. So before our next exam I am trying to prepare myself and try hard to understand the problems, and how to solve them. Right now in the class I have a sixty-eight percent, which needs to be better; and I know if I try really hard and put more work into the worksheets and homework, I will achieve my goal to earn a B in the class.