To write my academic mindset project I worked with my older brother and his girlfriend. They are both in college and were able to give me good suggestions on how I could get out of the high school mindset of not doing much to get by. Seeing them have goals for their classes and their kids helped me realize that there is more to life than going out all the time and that I want better for myself in the long run. It was a really good choice to work with them and bounce ideas back and forth because they are always showing me that you have to push yourself harder than what you think you are capable of if you want more in life. I watch them go to work and take care of my nieces every day no matter how tired they are or how much they have on their plate and I saw that if they can do it then I really have no excuse to be a better student than I am right now. While writing my project I saw that both of them were attending classes and doing homework all while taking care of two young girls and it put into perspective for me that I know I can do it. I wrote most of my project at home but next time I do a project I will do most of it at school because it can get crazy at home with my nieces there. I chose to write about my topic because the more I make myself aware of how I need to improve the easier it is to remind myself of how I need to keep going and force myself to be a better student if I want to move forward with my degree.
For my next writing process I am going to make a list of all of my points that I want to make in paper so that way when I go to write the paper I have a list of what I want to write about. My brother taught me that if I do this then it will be easier to build my paper and then I can take the points that I wrote down and branch off of those ideas to make the paper more full and it will lead to a better grade because there will be more content. I think this idea is where I can make the most improvement because with other assignments I would just start writing and would start talking about things that didn’t have to do with the assignment because I would lose track of my topic and it would make me lose focus of the whole point of the paper.
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For my hiraeth I wrote about my grandmom. In my draft I didn’t get to write all that I wanted to write, I could’ve kept typing about her for hours. While I was writing and thinking about memories I have with her, I started to feel like she was right there back with me. I had a picture of me and her sitting right next to me so I could look at a happy moment I had with her, and that got my mind racing. Tons of memories with my Grandmom came to mind, good and bad. It made me have all types of emotions going through my mind, so before I even started to write my draft I went and talked to my father, who was the son of my grandmom, and sat and just talked to him about memories with her. I also went and talked to him because it was the day of her 2 year death anniversary and we were both upset, but he clearly was hurting more. While we sat there and talked about her we both cried, laughed, got serious, joked around, every emotion possible. After the conversation with my father it felt like a big weight was lifted off my shoulders and I was finally able to write about her with a clear mind. The thing that also gave me motivation to write about her was seeing that I changed my father’s mood and changed his attitude also. While I sat in my room alone with the picture of me and my grandmom sitting next to me, I felt relieved and nauseous at the same time, since I miss her so much. As I started writing, more memories kept coming back to me and I felt as if she was there reminding me of everything we did, and everything that has happened over the years, even since her passing. After writing up my quick first draft so I didn’t miss the deadline I sat and reminisced about her for a while. It changed my mindset and attitude towards a lot of things, but most importantly gave me faith in everything. Now I feel like my grandmom is with me everywhere I go watching over me. The reason I even chose to write about her is because she was the closest thing to home I could think of. She was my best friend, my grandmother, and most importantly the biggest role model in my life.
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