Breaks

Breaks are good. Breaks are actually amazing. I was wondering about this the other day how the school organizers in the early years of higher education came up with the ideas of breaks or if they even had breaks and if not who lobbied the organizers to create breaks for the students. I know in the past system that students would often live with their professor in the same household so who decided to talk the professor one day and just say "Yeah I think we should take like a week off man" and the professor was like "Yeah, doth be on to something here".

Anyways, my break has been nice. I actually haven't done any homework like I was planning to do to get ahead but I did get some new duds which is awesome. I'm glad to come back home and see my dad and sister who I haven't seen in almost 2 months and I think I've missed my dog more than anything which is just funny to me but I love him. Been working on my paper slowly but surely, 5 pages is more than I originally thought but I'm grinding through it. I'm nervous to see some of the grades from my midterms but I'm excited to come back to school. Anyways, until next week.

Goals

I have a really hard time maintaining goals. I want to blame it on the immediate feedback world we live in where we want instant results instead of working on something for a long time, and that's definitely how I see some of the things in the world. I just want the results now instead of working for them even though I know I'll cherish it even more if I take the hard work and time to get the results.

I see myself doing this when I go to the gym or when I'm studying for a test or practicing guitar or anything that takes a while. I see the other people in the world with the results already and I want that but I forget to realize that they spent time learning to do those things or get to that point in their life rather than getting it immediately like I want it. I see myself also becoming envious because of this inability to take the time, I want a good job and money but I'm envious of those driving these high profile cars and living high profile lives and again I forget to realize the work they did to get there so I'm trying to keep myself in check to achieve those goals.

Adjusting to College

So far I think I'm doing a pretty good job so far at adjusting to this college thing, the only major problem I seem to be having is getting up on time to go to my early class at 8:30. Today I did myself wrong by convincing myself that it was just conversation day of Arabic and I didn't need to go because we weren't learning anything new. However, we always learn something new sure it may not be a new letter or new short vowel marking or any of the other confusing stuff in that language but it's practice and it's hearing the correct pronunciation of words from a native teacher. I got lucky this time around and our teacher canceled on us at 7:20 AM this morning so I got lucky but it made me realize the rationalization I'm coming to in my head that sleep is more important than education, and while I certainly agree that in certain situations it's better to sleep than to study more but this morning is not a situation I condone.

I'm maintaining good grades in all my classes which is something I'm proud of, I'm hoping to achieve a 4.0 GPA this semester to give myself a good foundation for the next 4 years cause I remember being in Highschool and having to pick up and try to get back up from where I put myself initially so I definitely think I'm taking a step in the right direction. Anyways, off to work some more and then bed early so I can actually make my 8:30 class tomorrow.