The Last Assessment

So....it's over. Forever.
I'd like to thank the academy-
Wait.

Wait, no it's not. Shit.

As the self-assessment is necessary, I guess I must pick apart my college experience so far. What have I learned? Well, truth be told I am not productive, and have taken little to no initiative to be a part of my community. My work process involves procrastinating through the last half of the semester, and this probably affected my grades at the end.

My biggest challenge involves getting up the morning. Not in a depressing sort of manner, but just for the fact that commuting is awful. Some mornings I just don't want to go in. I'd prefer to be waking up, and walking somewhere with much less effort than I put into my current mornings. I get up at 6 to get to reach classes at 8. I'll be doing that all next semester, and that's going to be worse than just a M-W-F schedule. Unfortunately, I can't just sleep in through all my classes, so I just get up. That's how I deal with it.

The one thing I can be proud of this semester is...well, probably this blog. Along with the efforts I've put into my English 112 essays. These are the two moments where I am using all my creative magic powers to do work that I am satisfied with. I have yet to find work that has been at a college-level of effort, but these make me feel like I'm working slightly harder than high school. Though, my grades aren't all straight A's, I'll admit that. This may be due to the fact that I haven't taken this work as seriously as I should have.

Through all of this must come change, yes? Well, probably. I need to make sure I don't go down a slippery slope here. As the next semester starts, I must learn to utilize time management skills that I'm pretty sure I learned once in this class to ensure I get work done on time. I'll also be more excited to do the work, as I have classes I got to sign up for. Except...maybe two English classes isn't a good idea. I'll work it out. Trust me.

What have I learned this semester? Probably information that I'll have to recite one day in some conversation about anthropology. Or remember Algebra all over again. Truth be told, I haven't learned a lot that I'm interested in, but I have re-learned more old information as opposed to learning more than I have previously. Granted, it's my first semester, but a lot of this is forgettable.

I don't know what else to truly say about this first semester of college. I'm keeping the blog after all of this, if that interests you at all. The time I've spent so far has been uneventful, granted, but I've learned a lot outside the classes that taught me a bit about life. It's not about these grades, but more along the content that you choose to produce. This blog is a pretty good example of that. Though I'll admit I am more than likely recycling phrases I've already said to fill out the word count requirements, but that's okay. For me, anyway.

After using a word count tool, I've gotten towards 531 words, so that's starting to sound like it's time for this lovely farewell to come to an end. It's been interesting, writing for particular topics, but now I'll handle this from here. Good luck with the rest of the semester, and if anyone else makes a blog with pictures I will fight them.