If I felt like I was falling behind on my goal I would walk around aimlessly in my apartment or find reasons to go outside and walk until I reached a step count that I felt more comfortable ending my day at. The first week I had started doing the pedometer assignment I still had not been cleared from my knee injury by my doctor to participate in exercise activities so I did not meet the guidelines of 150 minutes of moderate physical activity or 75 minutes of vigorous physical activity per week. I could have been stretching and at least doing resistance training on my upper body but I did not doing any of that either my first week so I also did not meet the guidelines of two to three days of resistance training or stretching 3 plus days per week. At the start of my second week I was finally cleared to start engaging in some physical activity. I met the guidelines of 150 minutes of moderate physical activity and the 75 minutes of vigorous physical activity by participating in cardio 5 days of that week and did a total of 250 minutes of combined vigorous and moderate activity.
I had an answer, but I struggled terribly with putting it down on paper because I wanted this interview to “be perfect”. I was too worried about what I looked like or sounded like, so ultimately I had lost “my voice.” I went to my dad for more help. I had wasted a whole hour stressing over how to answer a few questions about myself. My dad told me something very important that day, he said, “The best way to impress someone is to be you”. After meditating on what he said to me I had at least something to put down.
I would have thought that it’d be much easier to fall asleep once I got back home in my own bed, but it wasn’t. I haven’t been on a long airplane ride in a long time, so I forgot what was so bad about jet lag. It was so frustrating, so I just gave up and watched TV and stayed up on the laptop that whole night. It was as if my mind was tired, but my body wasn’t or vice versa. At the end of the 72 hours, my eyes felt heavy, it become hard to walk, I was crabby, mean and impatient, my body was weak, and I got a fever, but this happens almost every time I travel for a long period of time although this time was the worst.
(NEA Today).” Seven hours is a lot of the day working all day and we never stop five days a week and we have homework which is bad for us, it makes us tired.” Decades ago, the American Educational Research Association released this statement: “Whenever homework crowds out social experience, outdoor recreation, and creative activities, and whenever it usurps time that should be devoted to sleep (Scholastic news).” Kids need to play outside and have a social life they need to enjoy their free time but there is no free time because of all the homework. Kids through 6-12th and college need less homework because we already have seven hours of
In my essay I will examine three things I need to do to change my attitude on my education these things are; go to totoring, study, and stop procrastinating. I am doing exceptionally well in all my classes except for one Ms. Boykin’s Algebra II class. It is my fault because I don’t wake up early enough to go to tutoring in the mornings. My strategy for the 2nd semester is to study and to stay on top of make up work when I am absent and go to tutoring to get help on things I don’t understand. Since high school I’ve been doing poorly in math but, I’m not going to let it get the best of me and I will do what ever is necessary in order to pass and graduate in June.
I felt school was not for me because I have dyslexic and, I feel people just don’t want to help me. I had to get off the self-pity and do something about my life. Returning to school should not mean you should give up your life it means you are giving your life a new outlook. Improving the things in life to make your future more brighter is priceless. I always wonder why I seem to leak learning things.
This evening I would like to talk you about procrastination. However, I put off writing this speech for so long that I did not get around to actually determining what to tell you about procrastination. Okay...I am just kidding. I only procrastinated until Saturday, and that was only because I wanted to put off grading some essays written by my Senior Composition class. As you may already know, procrastination is one of the easiest ways to not finish your work.
Nowadays I really don’t mind going to school, but I really hated it before. This year of school isn’t all that important to my career, it’s more the foundation of my education. Throughout this year I’ll be learning all the basics of working with automations, which is going to be necessary no matter what I decide to do once the semester is over. Once I finish this year of school, I can choose two ways to reach my goal of becoming an automatics engineer. I can either continue the automatics education I’m taking right now, or I could start taking Intermediate general education classes.
Self-satisfaction is not the goal of procrastinators. Procrastinators thrive on the idea that they may or may not reach their deadline. We are risk-takers who like to sit back and watch our lives crumble before our eyes, but at the last second, before it’s all gone to… we throw something together that saves us. There is nothing more exhilarating than waiting until the very last moment to do an important homework assignment. Pulse racing, slippery fingers on pencils, eyes skirting through information, hoping to quickly find the correct
It’s very hard to type a paper or study for a test when you have a nine month old that wants to get into everything. I honestly think that is one of the stressors that get to me the most so I have decided to get a babysitter when I have very important things to do like a big test or project. Another stressor I face is living with another college student and only having one computer, it’s very hard to choose who gets the computer when we both have very important things to study. This also can lead to arguing; only causing more stress. We sat down and worked out a solution we ordered a new computer, we only hope this helps us get more college work done and in a timely manner leaving us with less stress.