Famous Last Words: sick cold week

Last week was probably the weirdest week. On Sunday I bought some tortillas and got really sick the next day. Then on Tuesday, class was let out early and then no school after that. One thing that I really appreciated was sledding in my car. I ended up spending my snow day getting caught up on my reading for this class as well as my fate and the individual class. I finished Moby Dick and that was probably one of the coolest books I've read in a long while. I also finished the Mahabharata and I think that there is definitely going to be a lot of future stories coming from Arjuna and his stories. Lastlly, I did not get my hours of MCAT in this week and that is totally my fault. One thing that I will do better this week than I did last week is I will do my assignments a head of time and stick with the schedule that I have planned. 

Despite all this, the week was quite relaxing and all the tests I had last week, were moved to this week. I have a genetics test on Friday and a paper due for Fate. This is my first paper and I will write about Faust. I hope to finish everything by the time Thursday comes a long so I could spend the majority of my time doing my Genetics prep. Lots of cool things in store this week.

There is definitely a lot this week but I feel rested so it's all good. I also got to figure out how to do my portfolio and added a few lines of poetry so that is also really cool!

But the highlight of the day is watching the closing olympic ceremony with my family and that is the best ever.

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Famous Last Words: busiest week of the semester so far

This week has been quite a doozie! I think this was actually my most busy week yet! I did not get in my 20+ hours of MCAT prep for the week, but I am not beating myself up over it or anything. One thing I am proud about is that I kept myself on a really good sleeping schedule this week and did everything I could to get to bed on time. I was also able to volunteer on Saturday as well at a clinic called Manos Juntas!
Anyways, even though last week did not go quite as planned, I am expecting this week to go smoothly because I am choosing to fail-forward! This week I have my first test in genetics and my first test in Latin. I am feeling kind of anxious, but I feel confident that if I keep my studying consistent, by the time the test comes i will have no problems.

Other reflections on the week are... the readings! I love The Ramayana by R.K. Narayan! I actually finished the rest of the book earlier today! I am very excited to start on my writing assignments soon for next week and have got great plans for my story! This week I combined Don Giovani by Mozart, an opera, into my retelling of the story of the Ramayana. After I did some blog commenting today, I realized that other people have really great stories as well so this week I plan to make the story a lot more original and inventive!!

Lastly, my final reflection is on today. Earlier this afternoon I went home to do some laundry and for the first time I was really happy to see my mom and dad. They were working on a project and I just had an extreme moment of thankfulness for everything that they've done for me.

Don Giovani image from lincolncenter

Famous last words: Hitting my MCAT Studying goals!

This week was really hectic! A personal life goal that I put for myself last week then told my friends to hold me accountable to was 20 hours of MCAT studying in. This semester I will be taking the medial school admissions test known as the MCAT and I really to make sure I was excelling not only in school but also in life. My original goal starting the semester off was to get in 30 hours of MCAT prep in a week all the way up until the date of my test which will be on April 20th (4/20).. :)

I was not able to hit those goals so I lowered it down last week to 20 hours instead. The first half of the week did not go very well and I was only able to get in a like 4 hours by Thursday morning.. However, as I was walking out of class, I saw one of my friends studying for her LSAT and I asked her how she went about studying for it. She enlightened me to her schedule of putting in 30 hours a week for the past two weeks and told me how manageable it has been for her. After talking to her for about 10 minutes I had this new resolve to finish up the week strong and hit the original goal for studying that I had planned. I ended up the week on Saturday at around 5:30pm hitting my 20 hours of studying in for the week! I actually ended up passing out right after words. Anyways, hitting my goal of 20 hours this week gives me a lot of confidence going into next week that I will be able to manage both my study hours for the MCAT and for school as well! I want to emphasize how important it is to set goals and actually hit them. I just feel so good after hitting my goals and I feel like a new person!

Thanks for reading!

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