One more week done. Only 14 more days of classes left, minus the holiday classes.
I still have very limited motivation and spent the whole weekend procrastinating and hanging out with a friend sooooooo..... I'm not doing good at all and honestly haven't really tried to change due to lack of motivation.
Thanks for all your input @miniturtle I really appreciate it.
Not approaching your teacher doesn't help but it doesn't guarantee failure either. I was soooo stressed about not getting 30 in eng lang ( which I needed for GC) or not getting 25 and not being able to get into anything but in the end I got what I needed. I can't guarantee you that you'll get over 30 too, but you can't guarantee me that you'll get less than 25.
Well I have an update with this. At the valedictory dinner @Poet dragged me (!!!!) over to my EngLang teacher and told him I'm scared of approaching him. I then had a bit of a chat to him and he's not tooo scary. I have an EngLang SAC p 5+6 today and I am going to try and see him p4 or Lunch if he doesn't have a class
In all honesty I don't feel like I've been a good friend to my friends recently either, but you've got to keep trying to try - I've learnt that in the end the trying becomes action and the actions create successes.
I guess I am gonna keep just plodding along and trying as hard as I can ten
As poet and you have both alluded to, your stress about procrastination (and other stuff) is hurting you. The good news is that there are things you can try to do to pick yourself back up. Things like keeping on talking to your friends even when you feel that you're a burden, like eating healthier, exercising, getting some sleep, setting small goals (doing a whole eng lang exam would be tough, but maybe you can answer a couple of short answer questions?), practicing responding healthily to your thoughts (especially if you have intrusive thoughts or patterns of rumination), getting outside, meditation (try 5-10 minutes at a time to start off), journalling....
The irony of improving when you're in a negative space is that being in that place makes it harder to do these things, but the flipside is that improvement gives you momentum, and that you learn how to recover faster after each crash.
I am already kind of exercising, I play Tennis two days a week and go to the gym one day a week. What I feel like I could improve on though is getting more sleep and eating healthier. I am getting around 7 hours of sleep a night on average night and I feel like I could get more, as I am spending at least an hour eac and every night lying in bed browsing, Reddit, Facebook, Quora or Youtube, and I feel like I can cut down on that. I ave the ios 12 beta on my phone and have set up the new restrictions where you can limit the amount of time on each app, but it is too easy to ignore the warnings that come up and just click the button to extend my time. I also got Rocket League over the weekend, bad idea to get a fun addictive game when I should be preparing for exams.
Does anyone have any tips on restricting screentime?
To be honest I haven't really put much effort into it but I have been trying to restrict myself and it hasn't really been working. I feel like if I ask my parents to make sure they restrict it I will just get soooo pissed at them which would cause more stress and tension around my house than it already is (it gets hectic with 5 siblings).
EngLangAs mentioned above I have a SAC this afternoon that I haven't really prepared for. I am hoping to see my teacher just before for last minute tips though, hopefuly I don't keep procrastinating it, I don't want a great study score in EngLang all I want is a 25.
BusManI am yet to actually start the revision, I have so far done the equivalent of half a practice exam worth of questions and I am remembering more than I thought I would remember, so I guess that is a plus, I don't want to start properly revising for this until all my SACs are done which should be this friday (except for Methods during the holidays). I'm going to the BusMan lecture this Sunday and I am hoping that will help me out a bit and I plan to properly study for the exam after that.
It is scary that there are only 49 days until this exam (which is my first exam)
InformaticsAll we have is the security SAC on Friday and then I am done with all the informatics content. I am looking forward to preparing for this exam because I actually enjoy learning about most of the stuff found in the informatics textbook. In saying that it is probably go to the bottom of the priority pile for now since it is my last exam. I am worried about having both my EngLang and Informatics exam on the same day, I will probably put all my effort into EngLang because I struggle in it a lot and not be able to do as well as I am capable of in Informatics.
How have other people dealt with having two exams on the same day?
MethodsWE ARE DONE WITH THE CONTENT!!!!
I am now actually scared though, I am not prepared for the probability SAC which I am doing in the holidays.
And looking at the practice exams we have been given it is soooo scary looking at them, I actually feel like I have not learnt a thing this year as I can't answer most of the practice exam questions.
VET ITI am behind on the online assessment things and the last class is this Wednesday. Anything I don't complete I must finish over the holidays or I do not receive my certificate or get an S. So I am kinda worried but I am sure I will get it all done, I didn't realise how long some of them were until this weekend.