This year has probably been the best year of school I’ve had. I pushed myself to create my best works and continued to strive for the best possible product. In school, it required myself to strive for accuracy. Striving for accuracy means to desire exactness, fidelity, perfection, and elegance. I demonstrate this habit of mind in history, spanish, and Model UN. This skill has only improved me for the better. Striving for accuracy in history is challenging with dates, people, and events you have to memorize. The visual essay really pushed me to my limits because of the needed artistic abilities. In this project we were asked to create a question and answer with pictures and our own thoughts. In this piece of art I worked using stencils to create nice looking symbols and concrete ideas. This was how I aimed for accuracy. I think this turned out to be one of my favorite papers I did because of the hard work that was put into it. The project also required me to revise and create a plan for our project. In the process, I checked over my own answers to make sure they answer the complex question. Plus, in the end I strived for my best possible grade. This …show more content…
Costa. I demonstrated this quality in spanish in my Spanish Mid Year Final. This final determines what class spanish class you take in highschool. I strove for accuracy in this final by studying very hard to get prepared for it. This payed of by studying the things we had learned in the past years. I studied weather, clothes, and verb conjugations. I also checked over my test when I finished to make sure I could get it closest to perfection. I checked over my scantron for silly mistakes and to see if I answered the questions correctly. Plus, I continued to check over my work till it made the best I could. I would say I did well with a grade of 71/75 that got me into Spanish
A major part of being in a classroom, regardless of grade level in the Industrial Age, has its high expectations with it. Schools during these times expected perfectionism for their students. Now in the Information Age, students could make mistakes as they were seen as a necessary part of growth. This is usually shown in schools like a language class where mistake are common, but can be fixed. The idea that fitting in with a uniformity matter is essential as a perfectionist.
As many people have told me before, it is a very different ballgame than middle school’s easy going years. There is much more work, the classes are harder, and the environment is completely different. Many people’s grades may slip and they may cower in fear at the barrage of assignments they receive class after class. Unlike other people, I am confident in my ability to excel at all classes and to sustain exemplary grades. Therefore, while many are trembling in fear at the prodigious assignments and work is bombarding them from all angles, I will be at ease, knowing that whatever obstacle is thrown my way, I will conquer it and be its own
immensely since my first, formal essay in English 111. My biases have changed, my style has
Writing a decent essay can be nerve racking, time consuming, and can be accompanied by many trial and errors such as an art project. First you have to generate an idea, which can be the biggest challenge of them all. Then you have to decide on what details to incorporate and the placement for it. You begin to throw colors and shapes together in hopes that it will transform into a pleasing design. This all takes time, being challenged to create artwork, whether it be an essay or a painting, in sixty minutes becomes even more nerve racking and mind boggling. After last week’s timed writing practice, I was able to experience the dreadful event of producing a piece of artwork, which in my case was to deliver an essay,
As American journalist and former first lady of California, Maria Shriver, once stated, “perfectionism doesn’t make you feel perfect; it makes you feel inadequate.” This quote reflects upon the negative side effects of being the infamous, “perfectionist.” A perfectionist is commonly defined as someone who accepts none other than true precision, and will cease at nothing to obtain it. Throughout my academic career, I had struggled with this type of mental state.
The assignments that I am the proudest of are the Character Journal, Course Theme Video, and Science Fiction Genre Story. My marks in them were 92%, 84%, and 80%. I got a fantastic mark in the Journal because I was creative and included details from the story. For the Course Theme Video, my mark was great because I used common sense, it was humorous and I made some good points. With the Short Story, I had an interesting twist and overall it was a good story.
I concluded my 8th grade year with 9 a's and 5 b's, contrarily my 9th grade report card included 5 f's and 3 d's. "Your mistakes do not define who you are, you are your possibilities." - Oprah Winfrey. This quote reflects my high school journey because though I've made innumerable mistakes throughout high school thus far, and continue to make mistakes by not prioritizing my education, I refuse to give up and I will not let my mistakes make me.
... am to get a halfway decent grade. So, I started it up and felt confident that I was going to get it done.
This deep dive into self-knowledge occurred when I received my first progress report for second semester Ninth Grade Algebra. To say that I was put into a space of shock and awe is an understatement; I was outraged. I was completing all my assignments and turning in homework, but my poor test grades were obliterating my grade.
When it came to the process of writing my first, second, and third essay’s, there was clear visual improvement that I have become a better writer in certain aspects. As for essay one, I tended to rely on my writing skills as a high school student rather than use the components of a successful college student essay. This was definite once I received the feedback given by ...
This project most definitely gave me the opportunity to extend some research into history behind all mathematics and art. Art and math have quite the long, historical relationship. Math has been used to create works of art such as perspectives, golden rectangles, fractals, and even visualizations of the fourth dimension, and art has been used to expand mathematical knowledge like how artistic perspective shaped the drawing of mathematical diagrams; as da Vinci showed.
If I receive a ninety or higher, I will move on to the next topic which would be physics. I always have had a passion for physics and science, so I should know most of the material. I am versatile and I am capable of working in diverse locations without distractions so that I can learn new material and can set reminders for tasks which would need to be completed. Each day, I will review the other two subjects for at least thirty minutes to keep the chapters fresh in my mind.
The first two exams I took, I did very poor. I was so scared of the next exam because if I did worst than before, I would have failed Human Biology. So then, I started to make studying a habit and got a AB on my next exam. Since I got this score; I will for sure get a good grade on my final exam. About
My necessity for perfection came at a very young age. This obsession was born from my despise toward anything not done to its full potential. When I was four, I was often seen throwing a fit because the way I wrote my numbers and letters weren’t “perfect.” Even now, I am not able to to tolerate imperfection, blemishes, or anything other than my absolute best. When I write stories, it doesn’t matter how other people praise or criticize them, I’ll always scratch the entire story and write a new one that I’ll never complete.
Some of the skills I had shocked me as I didn’t think I had those capabilities in me. One of our first assignments that our class did was write a response to a piece of work we read, and use that as inspiration in our own poems. I wrote a poem about a necklace that held meaning to me, and the end result surprised me. At first I thought I would fail the assignment because I didn’t think I had the skills to write an acceptable poem, but came to find out I had surpassed my expectations. When writing about my shaping influence for my third essay, my research paper, I first had to set the scene for the readers and give them a reason to read.