This week was full will surprises and disappointments. Lately, I've been struggling to keep up with my schedule as school work progressively increases with the year passing by. I did not have enough time to study for classes and at the same time to have enough sleep. When I get back home from football practices, it's already around seven o'clock at night. With dinner, shower and other things, I really can't start doing my homework by eight. I struggle to manage my tiredness from affecting my academic performance.
As a result, I did not do that well on multiple tests. In chemistry class, we reviewed the moodle quizzes to prepare for our upcoming test. I did overall pretty good on those quizzes, but for some reason I felt really sick and fatigue on the day of the exam. I thought I did well on the test at first, later when the test was posted. It caught me with surprise. I failed it. Due to the game on Thursday and the film discussion with the coaches on Friday, I did not have a chance yet to go over the test with Dr. Finnan. I really believe that I am capable of doing better on that test. I don't blame others for my own failure, I think it was my lack of concentration and focus that tripped me up. I decided not to do the retake because I deserve the grade that I received for my lack of focus and concentration. Later on the week, we went over the Lewis model and covered the ideas of valence electrons. It's pretty simple but this time I just need to concentrate on not to mess up on the day of the exam. On the other hand, I took a math test last week as well. I did bad on the exam too. I looked over it afterwards, I understood all the problems and am capable of solving them. It was all the small mistakes that I messed up on ending up ruining the entire problem. I really need to focus up.
Despite all of the disappointments, I got a new phone last week. The phone is awesome. Now I can actually do the moodle quizzes and use other online resources wherever I am. The other big thing happened was our skyline football team beat our cross town rival, Pioneer. We did an excellent job on executing our plays and defensively I did well on my own assignment except for just some small mistakes that I made. I really like the game of football because it relates to not just athleticism but life as well. There are always failures that will beat us to our knees sometimes in life. The test scores discouraged me greatly recently, but that is not the point. More importantly is how we stand back up from our failures, from now on, I am giving out my one hundred and ten percent effort to bring my standards back up.
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