New Direction

After reading tons of other blogs around the internet I have found that they mostly have a central theme to it...My blog on the other hand has none...So from now on I'm going to try and find the direction my blog will take. Lets see I'm interested in many things but my life revolves around 5 things...School/career, Movies/TV/Music, Fraternity, Family, Friends...So I think I'm gonna write exclusively about those 5 topics. By doing this I feel I will have more to write about and make my blog more interesting, so lets try it out......Lets Start this new approach by writing about school.

We are in the middle of finals season here at George Mason....and that means people looking like zombies, bad eating habits, late nights (the bad kind), and stress levels reaching new heights. No matter how much you try to plan ahead and do things right this semester you always end up pulling all nighters and cursing yourself for waiting this long to start studying. Its almost as if our bodies are programed to find and do anything but study.

It seems unfair that every semester teachers wait till the last possible weeks to stack up the work and on top of that give us a test that encompasses everything we were supposed to learn throughout the semester. Its probably the worst part about college and the reason why so many students end up taking courses over. I personally think finals are retarded and should be done away with, if anything a final shouldn't consist of everything that the class was about. I enjoy those rare occasions where teachers spread out their tests so that I'm not stressing the entire night before about one exam that could potentially be the reason why I fail.

So it should be pretty clear by now that I am the type of student who waits to the last minute to study or do any assignment for that matter( I'm a 4 year college student btw). I can safely say that after 4 years of going to school I am still every bit the procrastinator I was during my first semester. However, I am proud to say that throughout my college career I've only failed 2 classes. So how have I done this? Well for starters I am a government major which if your already into politics and what goes on internationally then your pretty much guaranteed a semi easy path. Though I do wait till the last minute I also know what study techniques help me understand and retain information. Lastly I choose classes that are interesting to me, so even if I don't go to class or take notes in class, I still have a general understanding of what is going on.

So my advice for anybody really is just find what works best for you and choose courses that you actually want to take, not what you have to take. I find many people make themselves miserable by taking courses that sound just terrible. Having some kind of work ethic also comes in handy...so in this finals season I hope everyone finds their groove and passes their classes.

Song I'm listening to....Cold War Kids- Quiet Please