Well, we are few weeks into the semester and I am already back into the swing of things. I am doing all my homework, going to class, and using my planner effectively. If I keep this up all semester I could get straight A’s! 
Only time will tell! Until then, I will continue to work my butt off! Here’s to a good start and here’s to good habits! Better cross my fingers now for the rest of the semester. I am still very excited about classes and learning new things! But, I am still counting down the weeks until spring break! Got to survive somehow!
Goal for the week: Stay slightly ahead on my homework and treat myself to a homework free weekend 
Goal for the year: Keep my good habits going!
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I’ve only had three days of classes so far (my schedule works out so that I don’t have any classes on Fridays!), but I’m exhausted by school already, and the (admittedly weak) enthusiasm with which I came into the new term is swiftly dimming. (Geek-out time: if you graphed on a Cartesian plane the change in my enthusiasm this week, it would look like the graph of y = 1/x. You know, a curve that starts up close to the y-axis, then curves downward until it hits its horizontal asymptote and basically gets closer and closer to zero? That’s exactly what it’s like. I’m sure you either love me or hate me right now.)
My new course schedule is chock-full of computer science classes- a math class (Algebraic Structures), a programming class, a compiling theory class I’m affectionately calling “Dragon Studies” because of the drawing of a knight fighting a dragon on the textbook cover (plus, compiling theory seems like it’s going to be a… dragon), and an intro to server technology class. My only non-C.S.-related classes are American National Government and Newspaper Workshop, and they only meet once per week. I’ve got a lot of gaps between classes every day, but I have a feeling it won’t be long until all that time won’t seem like enough in which to finish my homework every day.
Actually, I think the classes I’m taking are going to challenge me to be more disciplined in my study habits. I’ve kind of leaned heavily on math classes in the past semesters for credit hours, and although I had homework every night, there wasn’t any memorizing of terms to do. Not to say that my classes have been easy (because they really, really haven’t), but there wasn’t the same amount of studying involved outside of homework – you do the problems every night, you get a good idea of what you’ll be doing on the test. The computer science classes I’m in currently are different – they’re heavy on theory and vocabulary, and I’m going to have to get into the habit of sitting down and memorizing my notes every night.
Honestly, I don’t have much hope for myself on this front – I hate studying, even though memorizing things isn’t that difficult for me. It’s imperative that I at least try, though – I’d hate for a bout of laziness to be what brings me down this semester.
We’ll see how this all goes, and you, dear reader, will most certainly be kept in the loop about it.
So tell me, are your classes a switch-up from last semester?
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Break was fantastic. Break was phenomenal, break was magnificent, break was everything I could have wanted and more. But since break is over and I’m back at school, I might as well be happy to be back! And I am: happy to be around my friends and happy to get started with what should be a fun semester.
I’m excited for lots of things this semester: Track meets, the Environmental Fair, the Spring Formal… I’m even pretty excited for my classes: Business Management, Anatomy and Physiology, Biochemistry, and American History. My schedule is pretty balanced, too, so I should have plenty of time to get homework done.
So here’s to the new semester! May it be a good one for all!
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