I'm confused. I'm confused about the universe and my insignificance. I'm confused about how the world spins around the sun and how little important something like a bad day can be.
How do I sum up a whole semester with just a few paragraphs? Where do I even start? How did I manage to summarise everything into a very short presentation? It was hard, yes, but I did it. Along with the many accomplishments I have reached as an individual stands my Presentation of Learning. Who knew I could present to an audience without depending on the presentation being projected to tell me what I was to talk about? Not me thats for sure. After finishing my POL and standing there receiving comments of my peers, I stood there smiling, in a mental state of reflection.
For me, everything was over. The pressure was off my shoulders and I was ready to start relaxing into the long summer break I have waited for so long. The next day we were assigned another assignment which would of course go as a grade into the next semester. Oh damn, GRADES. Now that stress was the one coming with the end of the term and I had overlooked it completely. I don't know if it is that in the Innovation Academy we are so immersed in creating quality work that we stop checking what grades we are getting or why we are doing something. With a few hours of reflecting I realise that its because of the insignificance grades have on our lives.
Great grades can take you to places you've dreamed of being of course, but that is if your grades are completely outstanding. If you look at it that way, why should I set myself up for failure in the attempt of getting the perfect average when instead I could be producing outstanding work that could later on lead me to the same place? I know myself that even if I put unimaginable amounts of hard work, it would be extremely difficult for me to get in between a 6.8 and a 7.0 average at the end of every year.
Now lets be real, how difficult would it be for me to stop worrying about grades and start focusing in the creating of outstanding work? You just can't erase years and years of a mentality in a few months, especially when we are still forced to pay attention at rubrics and numbers at the end of the day. Thats when the really awkward and unusual introductory paragraph comes in. It is all INSIGNIFICANT. Compared to the importance of the earth's spin consistency, my grade average's consistency is completely insignificant. I feel as if everything I do, not matter how hard I try, will lead to a similar outcome unless I reboot my own mind and start reaching my full potential soon.
I talked about hard work in my presentation and I can personally say that it was hard to create breakthrough, but I am sure I did not give it my all. How am I supposed to start giving my full potential into school assignments I do not care about? Should I just stop caring about school completely? Should I start caring about wanting to really produce work I am proud of outside of school? The only thing I know is that I ask too many questions.
How do I sum up a whole semester with just a few paragraphs? Where do I even start? How did I manage to summarise everything into a very short presentation? It was hard, yes, but I did it. Along with the many accomplishments I have reached as an individual stands my Presentation of Learning. Who knew I could present to an audience without depending on the presentation being projected to tell me what I was to talk about? Not me thats for sure. After finishing my POL and standing there receiving comments of my peers, I stood there smiling, in a mental state of reflection.
For me, everything was over. The pressure was off my shoulders and I was ready to start relaxing into the long summer break I have waited for so long. The next day we were assigned another assignment which would of course go as a grade into the next semester. Oh damn, GRADES. Now that stress was the one coming with the end of the term and I had overlooked it completely. I don't know if it is that in the Innovation Academy we are so immersed in creating quality work that we stop checking what grades we are getting or why we are doing something. With a few hours of reflecting I realise that its because of the insignificance grades have on our lives.
Great grades can take you to places you've dreamed of being of course, but that is if your grades are completely outstanding. If you look at it that way, why should I set myself up for failure in the attempt of getting the perfect average when instead I could be producing outstanding work that could later on lead me to the same place? I know myself that even if I put unimaginable amounts of hard work, it would be extremely difficult for me to get in between a 6.8 and a 7.0 average at the end of every year.
Now lets be real, how difficult would it be for me to stop worrying about grades and start focusing in the creating of outstanding work? You just can't erase years and years of a mentality in a few months, especially when we are still forced to pay attention at rubrics and numbers at the end of the day. Thats when the really awkward and unusual introductory paragraph comes in. It is all INSIGNIFICANT. Compared to the importance of the earth's spin consistency, my grade average's consistency is completely insignificant. I feel as if everything I do, not matter how hard I try, will lead to a similar outcome unless I reboot my own mind and start reaching my full potential soon.
I talked about hard work in my presentation and I can personally say that it was hard to create breakthrough, but I am sure I did not give it my all. How am I supposed to start giving my full potential into school assignments I do not care about? Should I just stop caring about school completely? Should I start caring about wanting to really produce work I am proud of outside of school? The only thing I know is that I ask too many questions.