2009
Jul

My Main Goals for Next Semester

I’ve decided that my main goals for this coming semester are to have more self discipline and continue working on being social, but this time I want to try to really get to know more people and not just know then superficially.

I’m thinking discipline is important for me at this point in my life because it’s something I’ve lacked for a long time and could help me accomplish my other goals. The last time I remember being completely disciplined was when I was in sixth grade. I don’t know exactly what happened that first week in school, but I simply decided I was going to start coming home and doing my homework. That year I was in the Honor Roll every bimester, I was the Mrs. Woods favorite student, I also was appointed a C.O.D. (Cuerpo de Orden y Disciplina) (Body of Order and Discipline), which is sort of like a student aid for the teachers/example for the rest of the students to follow and the next year I was assigned to the Plan Piloto (Pilot Plan) program, which is the classroom where all the smart kids go. It’s meant to increase competition amongst the students and help them feed of each other. I know there are similar programs in schools here in the states, but I don’t remember their names.

My point is that discipline has been good to me in the past. I am disciplined only with the things I care about the most and even then not all the time. I get this great ideas for business and I start working on them, but there’s always going to be some obstacle that is just too boring, hard, detailed, technical, whatever… and I eventually drop the project. If I had the discipline to just continue working on them even if it is just a little bit at a time then I can see all of those projects realized. At least that’s my theory right now.

I just finished doing my Finance homework. Something that I’ve done three times out of maybe ten times the professor has assigned one. It felt good just having something completed. If I would only do all of my homeworks and study a little bit every day, I know I would be getting straight A’s in this class.

So those are my goals.

Peace,

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2008
Dec

Finally Done

Filed under: College, Life Journal

It was a pretty tough semester, but it’s finally done. I ended up taking an incomple on Finance because I didn’t do too great on the second test; bad enough that I needed a perfect score on the final to actually pass the class and how likely is that on a multiple choice test? Well, for me… very unlikely. I know it doesn’t sound very hard to do, but I have no luck if I ever needed it to be on my said. I’m like the Murphy Law in itself: if it can go wrong for me, it will go wrong. In any case, I’ll take the class again probably this coming year during the summer. I’ll be studying abroad for three semesters, but the first semester ends around may so I’ll take the class either during the month of June or July and hopefully be able to schedule things so I can still take a trip with my mom. She’d like to spend a week in Cancun with me and then two or three weeks in Europe or Asia. I think it would be a good time for the two us. Especially because I’ve only seen her for three days in almost 7 years.

Tomorrow I’m going to the Mexican consulate to get my student visa and from there it’s just a countdown till my departure. I already got my plane ticket and everything else I need. I am looking forward to Mexico. It should bring a lot of new experiences and a chance to travel again. I’ve spent way too much time in one place ever since I’ve been here in the US. Since I’ve been living in this country the problem hasn’t really been money, it’s been time. Somehow there’s never time. Either school or work is happening. Well like I said, I will be good to be in Mexico and life is not ridiculously expensive as it is here.