The biggest thing that I am going to take away from this week is something that had nothing to do with my classes. For the past two weeks I have been working non-stop. I have spent my hours in the library than in my own room and yet I still seemed to be getting behind in my classes. On Thursdays, I don’t have class until 4 in the afternoon and I get out on Wednesday at 12, so I decided that I was going to take a break from studying to have time to myself. I don’t think that I have done this since the first week back this semester. I know that I can’t do this every week, but I think that I needed time to let my mind rest. When I finally woke up Thursday, I felt like a new person. I think that I was more productive after the day off than I was before.
If I could go back in time and tell Grey from Orientation anything, I would stress the importance of sleep. It may feel like you should do everything in one night, but if you miss out on sleep then you’re just going to get further and further behind. This is one area that I have continued to struggle with. During the early part of first semester, I wasn’t used to balancing school life and social life. I saw my grades drop lower than I had ever seen them go simply because I wasn’t being productive. I think that I have grown astronomically in productivity from August to May. Now, I can sit in my room and do homework and study for HOURS and not think anything of it, compared to last semester when studying was really my top priority. I would say that my increased productivity is visible in my writing. In my opinion I have written far superior this semester compared to last.