Essays

     All throughout high school especially junior and senior year my teachers really cracked down on us when it came to writing a 5 paragraph essay. Throughout junior high is when I remember when we were taught how to correctly write an essay and knowing what each paragraph needed. For example I remember my teacher going over how many sentences each paragraph should contain and the 5 paragraph's which are labeled as introduction, first body paragraph, second body paragraph, third body paragraph, and the conclusion at last to finish it all off. From that point till about sophomore year all of my essays were simple. Later on about half way through junior year I believe is when I started learning more about citing and using sources from books, articles, magazines, etc. to create an essay. I then learned how to cite certain references since there all used differently so have a little twist here and there when citing and formatting. Now in college I continue to keep on learning about using references to create an essay and gathering certain information in certain paragraphs to develop the purpose of my essay. In middle school I probably would've said writing an essay is easy and to some it might be, but over these last 2 years I have figured out that I struggle a bit on putting or phrasing certain sentences in the right place in my paragraphs to connect the overall purpose in my essays depending on what the professor wants me to do. Generally speaking I continue to learn and haven't reached a point where I would say my essays are "good" there just average and is something I want to work on.

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Consistency

Consistency is something that I can struggle with and I find myself having trouble with. I am really good on being something for about 1-3 weeks max and then somewhere in between there or after the 3 weeks I tend to fall off and make an error and find myself messing up or not doing as good as I should be doing in that certain task. Usually I found myself struggling with school as you have seen if you've read my previous blogs. In the previous blogs I've talked about time management in my life and dealing with schoolwork or assignments. I was doing very good and was on my stuff but recently this week my streak so to say stopped. I completely forgot about some assignments and didn't complete them on time. This affected my grades in two classes. I find myself in a way of going through phases, as in I'm really consistent with something for a while but then stop and then hop back on it when something begins to go bad. I sometimes tend to focus to much on my future and lose track on my present with school. I've realized this past week that I need to prioritize my school work first. Meaning over money, fun, friends, and even family. Its token me a while to realize why I'm in school and acknowledge the privilege I have to be here and be majoring in something and make something out of it in my future. But I've realized I need to focus on the present which is getting my stuff together and do this school thing for these next 4-5 years. Comment below if you can relate or have any comments in mind thanks!!

Time Management Going Well

  Welcome to another one of my blogs. In my last blog I talked about how time management is one of my biggest issues and I have a hard time balancing out school, work, family, and time for myself. I also talked about how a planner helps me out and keeps me on track for the most part. This weekend I was able to do all of the above and I still have about 8 hours until I go to bed right now. I was able to get everything that needed to be done and still have time for family and myself. I'm not going to lie to you I was in a rush to get everything done and took little breaks here and there but I believe what really helped was getting up early yesterday and today I woke up at 7. To some that's not even that early but for me it is because on weekends I don't get up till like 9 or 10 since I'm so drained throughout the week. I feel a bit accomplished but now I have a fair understanding on how I should go on about my weekends from now on. For me personally I've realized that for me to get things done I MUST wake up early because then I feel as if it gets late really fast and before I know the day is over and I haven't completed the tasks I wanted to complete. I hope some of you will learn from my experience, relate to, and even disagree if so comment below. Thanks