Okay, It's Time to Get Serious

Hm. Over the past few weeks, it has been difficult for me to actually do anything productive. It seems that I am too stressed out. What I needed was some free time to do some thinking. Well, I tried to do all of my homework one day without any outside influences. Didn't turn out as I expected. The last two days I have been completely silent. It was because of a stupid dare that my friends made. As everyone knows, I'm very stubborn and will most definitely win the dare because I don't like to lose. When I was silent, I started to think more abstractly and this is what I came up with: I like staying silent, It gives me a clearer thought, I am more pensive. Rather then active, I'm being passive. A passive observer. Observing is mind boggling. Well, What I've said was completely true in a sense. If you talk, you listen to your voice talk because you recognize your own voice and pay attention to it more than you would your friends. When you don't talk, your brain as one less thing that it has to worry about doing. Therefore, it can focus on other things. For me, I was able to ponder why this is what it is. I've realized that the one most silent is the one most thoughtful. That explains why most people think better in an environment where they don't interact with other things. The idea that listening to music can help you better learn is true because you are not really interacting with the music unless you are tapping to the beat of the music or singing along. Well, it's pretty late. I have an IB History test tomorrow that I have to prepare for.

Monday Brain Bomb

Today is Monday, September 15th, 2008
It has only been the third week into the school year and many of the classes were taking it slow and getting us all adjusted to the IB curriculum. Today, something terrible has happened. In our HL English class, we were challenged to take upon a presentation that we would have to do in about 24 hrs. Everyone is freaked out about what they are going to do for their presentation. Along with the presentation, many other classes have given out notices of tests and quizzes. I think that most people will be busy up to their necks this week. As for me, I'm sacrificing cross country practices so that I can make up my homework. I am currently thinking about my presentation for english and how I will present it to the class. I know that I won't do a great job because it was such short notice. Now that I think about it, I get the phrase, "What did you expect? IB is trained to be harsh and time consuming." True, I did not know what I was doing when I signed on to the course(it was out of spontaneity), but I truly believe that I can do it and all other IB students reading this should not give up!