I’ve decided last night that I need to get a grip with reality.
My parents are paying all of this money for my tuition and housing just so I can have a fantastic education, inside and outside of the school room. And I’m not about to waste their efforts.
The first couple of months here, I was very grounded: I did all of my readings before hand and studied (really studied) like crazy.
I’m slacking off. I haven’t done my ethics readings in weeks (try 4). I have god-knows-how-many pages in psychology to do. And my psychology midterm is in two days. And I haven’t even started studying for it.
I procrastinate on average about 3 hours just to get 1 hour of work done. I’m slowly dipping down the slippery slide to wasted time.
What is the point of that? I love everything I’m learning, but I keep thinking about it in terms of an obligation. True, it is in a sense. But it also isn’t - it’s about learning and expanding our knowledge.
After seeing how grounded and dedicated to education she was, Emma Watson has inspired me to take control of my own life and my own education.
Like her too, I’m not going to make my parents work so hard just so I can waste their money and their efforts. Likewise, I have already accomplished so many beautiful things. I’m not going to waste my efforts, my intelligence, my hard work, and my dedication to succeed go to waste either. I’m just NOT.
Therefore: I’ll be sad to leave you all. In fact, I’m leaving all forms of social media (tumbler, facebook, blogspot) and all of those fashion websites that I go to so much to procrastinate on. It’s done. I’m done.
Look out for me around the 22nd, when I’ll be officially done with this school year! But yes, I’ve already worked so hard and I’m not going to let something that can obviously wait (hello blogspot!) ruin everything I have tried hard at.
So a temporary farewell! And please don’t be afraid to do the same.
My parents are paying all of this money for my tuition and housing just so I can have a fantastic education, inside and outside of the school room. And I’m not about to waste their efforts.
The first couple of months here, I was very grounded: I did all of my readings before hand and studied (really studied) like crazy.
I’m slacking off. I haven’t done my ethics readings in weeks (try 4). I have god-knows-how-many pages in psychology to do. And my psychology midterm is in two days. And I haven’t even started studying for it.
I procrastinate on average about 3 hours just to get 1 hour of work done. I’m slowly dipping down the slippery slide to wasted time.
What is the point of that? I love everything I’m learning, but I keep thinking about it in terms of an obligation. True, it is in a sense. But it also isn’t - it’s about learning and expanding our knowledge.
After seeing how grounded and dedicated to education she was, Emma Watson has inspired me to take control of my own life and my own education.
Like her too, I’m not going to make my parents work so hard just so I can waste their money and their efforts. Likewise, I have already accomplished so many beautiful things. I’m not going to waste my efforts, my intelligence, my hard work, and my dedication to succeed go to waste either. I’m just NOT.
Therefore: I’ll be sad to leave you all. In fact, I’m leaving all forms of social media (tumbler, facebook, blogspot) and all of those fashion websites that I go to so much to procrastinate on. It’s done. I’m done.
Look out for me around the 22nd, when I’ll be officially done with this school year! But yes, I’ve already worked so hard and I’m not going to let something that can obviously wait (hello blogspot!) ruin everything I have tried hard at.
So a temporary farewell! And please don’t be afraid to do the same.
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