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Shannanigan
, 02-27-2007 at 10:09 AM (3053 Views)
It's so hard to concentrate on school when you're in something as fun as a play! I mean, who wants to do homework when you can be practicing your dance moves, listening to Calypso, and rehearsing lines about how much fun it is to live in the Caribbean?

I think perhaps part of it is just that I'm burning out. I've always been like that; I do great in the Fall semesters but when Spring rolls around I just start to get sick of school. I still enjoy it, to a point. I like the class discussions and usually the readings, but I just can't seem to get motivated to do assignments and write essays.

Mind you, I do come to work with the intent of getting homework done when I'm not tutoring someone. I sit down, open up a laptop, check my e-mail...respond to e-mails....get distracted by an e-mail with a link...come skim the forums...and when I think about writing I instead come and write in this blog, lol.

I am a good student, and it's not like my grades are dropping, it's just that my motivation is. I still get the work done, and it is still usually of decent quality, but I'm losing sight of the point of it all. How is memorizing the titles of 7 different special educational laws and the years they were issued going to make me a better teacher? Maybe it's just those education classes. Maybe not. Maybe the play is just too exciting for me to think of much else. Maybe I've been staying up too late.

Whatever the case, I've been at work for an hour and I still haven't done a lick of homework.
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  1. mtpspur's Avatar
    Seven!!!?? Laws!!!??? This is a perfect opening for you--why when I was a student I had to memorize the yellow pages BACKWARDS now get back to your Latin lessons andquit whining.
  2. Shannanigan's Avatar
    lol...I never did quite understand that. Why do all American fourth graders need to memorize all 50 states and their capitals? Why do seventh graders have to memorize the periodic table? Is this stuff really necessary to gain a full understanding of the content? Why can't I just know that buildings must have ramps for people who use a wheelchair, that children with special needs must be provided with an appropriate education, and that teachers need to write specialized education plans for students with special needs? Why do I have to memorize the INTASC standards word-for-word and all the Public Laws from 1975 to No Child Left Behind? Ugh!
  3. grace86's Avatar
    You sound like me Shan, Spring semester is just bogging me down. Of course I get all my work done, I just can't get into it as much as the previous semester. My professors tell me that my grades are great...but how could I get an A instead of a B....well, that would require a bit more motivation than I am capable of at the moment.

    Don't worry...summer is coming.
  4. 's Avatar
    hey i have a tendency to do the same. I get started on something and then get interrupted by emails on the internet. So i can't get anything else done but read and respond to emails. I understand how you feel. anyways just keep it up and try to keep away from emails while at work. ttyl
    seymore
  5. 's Avatar
    wow you are all complaining about college. I don't like hearing that because i'm off to college next spring and if i'm going to just run into a train wreck, then i really don't feel like going. These kind of comments could scare people out of wanting to go to college. You collegiants are supposed to be role models to us so mtpspur quit putting shann. down she is working hard, she just can't get motivated enough. That was all she was stating. So i'm simply saying don't put someone down. You had to memorize the yellow pages backwards, I bet you saw a lot of chins, huh. that's so funny...anyways mtpspur just so you know when you were in school and now that we are in school there is a major difference. Everything is getting more difficult, more inventions are being created. Alot of new things are entering the world. So leave Shann. alone she is working hard, she just needs to find a way to get motivated.
    ttyl
    seymore