Winter Wonderland

Call it what you will, I just figured I'd give an update on what's been going on with my life for people I haven't talked to in a while.

I think I've really come to understand the problem I always seem to have with school every midsemester. I found that what tends to a number of us actually is that at the beginning of the term, everyone seems to be totally school gung ho like. This is the period where the school work is nice and light, and everyone feels super smart for being able to get ahead of their reading and actually be ahead of their class work. Of course this doesn't last long, especially when school really starts to roll on with course work, and everything seems to amalgomate (sp?) together. I view this as a big snowball effect. At the beginning of the semester, you're at the top of the hill (the less steep part of the hill), so it seems easy to not let your homework roll down and out of control. But then you start to enter the steeper part of the hill (midterm period), where you have to make decisions and sacrifices in regards to studying, which makes it more hazardous or more likely to snowball at this point. At one point, at least for me, I tend to trip and fall flat on my face against the ground (taking a day off of school work that I can't afford or anything like that), and that's when the snowball of work starts to roll big time down the hill. Of course, this is totally natural for anybody, but the problem is with my approach to remedying the backlog of work. What I do is when I finally get back on my feet, and I'm finally getting my reading/studying done, in essence I'm just stopping the rolling action from continuing on. The problem with this is the fact that I should be catching up on the reading that I missed from my slip-up, in essence rolling that snowball back up the hill, but I don't. I kinda just lean against that big ball of crap, stopping it from accumulating at all, then once I decide to take a break from it again, it just starts to roll again.

Anyway this blog seemed a lot clearer in my head than it turned out typed. Maybe because I'm waiting to goto my 5-8 PM class on a Friday night. Man do I hate friday's now...