Feb 02 2009
R.I.F.?
Remember in elementary school when they had R.I.F. (Reading Is Fun(damental) )? I used to love that. I think they would give you one book of your choice, for free. Growing up, my mom always made me read. Mostly whatever books she had just finished reading which were usually books by Stephen King, Dean Koontz, authors like that. I was reading books that I should not have been reading at a very young age. At the time, I didn’t think anything of it but when I go back and read those books now, I can’t believe I read some of that stuff.
Anyways, I am blogging about reading because this week in school, there is a ton of reading. 60 pages I believe, and that is just in one class. It’s cool and all, but most of it is the basics. How to read, how to learn while reading, critical thinking while reading, that type of thing. It’s awesome to be reminded of it but it is hard for me to actually read it, because I feel like it’s stuff I already know and I don’t want to waste time reading something that I don’t need to read. So I read all of it tonight and will probably read it again later in the week when I’m not so tired.
I’m in my 6th week of school which is awesome. I keep thinking I’m farther ahead though, lol. I learned a lot the first two or three weeks but have not learned much at all the last two weeks. There are a few possibilities as to why I haven’t learned. I could be bored of school. I could feel like it isnt relative to me, and when I feel like something is unncessary, I have a very hard time hearing/reading/doing it. I know I need to get out of that mindframe because I’m starting to realize that everything they are making us learn so far is to prepare us for the classes ahead. I am only on my first two classes. I still have a long way to go.
I breezed by the first three weeks of school. Week four was ok, week five was the hardest I think. Hardest in that I didn’t want to do it but I had to, and I even slacked on one of my assignments and my teacher called me out on it! She said, “The amount of time and effort you spent on this assignment was evident.” but I still got 24/30 points.
Anyways… I honestly want to get to the interesting classes like Religions of the world, Introduction to Philosophy, Management of Information Systems, cultural Diversity, introduction to Behavioral Science, Intro to Sociology, Financial Accounting… that stuff. I could NOT care less about my next two classes which are Effective Essay Writing (yuck!) and Critical Thinking. Those start on March 1st I believe.
I think I’m dreading the Critical Thinking class because I’m not good at it. My reading comprehension levels are very poor so anything that has to do with it immediately scares me and makes me wish I were … I dont want to say dead, but ya almost.
I know I will benefit from all of my classes. I am excited to learn new things each week. This is for a good cause, getting a degree, a COLLEGE degree is a major thing and I will be so proud when I’m done (and this is what I have to tell myself every day to get thru it)!!
