Reflection

This semester was not the easiest semester for me. I had a few personal issues that affected me as a student and altered my grades as well. For a moment i just gave up and i realize this was not the smartest decision to make, it was actually a very stupid and irresponsible decision.

As i mentioned before, i had a rough semseter therefore i was not a very good student. I tried to do the blogs but when they got too difficult to research i just gave up. Sometimes i would do them but never post them, which was really stupid because they were already there and all i had to do was type them and then post them. When the blogs would get too difficult to write or to find information on them i would not bother to go to Mrs. Hentschel and have her help me on whatever i could not find. Also, when i didn't understand an assignment or blog i would not go into reach or on my free time for help, i would just let the due dates for my assignments pass without doing anything about it. This really damaged my grades. I tried to find research on my topic, however it was really hard to find anything new on it because it was a common topic at all. Most of the information i found was either completely unreliable and not credible, or it was the same information given on another website. When this happened it frustrated me and i would give up trying to find info rather than going to the teacher and asking for help. Overall, i was not a very engaged student this semeter.

When it came to my writing i think it was a very different story from my job as a student. I believe my writing scills greatly improved from the beggining of the year to the end of the semester. We had to write a lot this semseter, whether it was essays, blogs, or short summaries we always had something to write. I found all the writing very hellpfull because it taught me how to write in a more formal tone rather than in a dull, boring tone. The few letters we did were also helpfull because that also taught me how to write formally and intelectually. However, what really helped the most were the vocab test we had every week or so, these words not only helped my writing skills, but also my reading skills. They helped my writing skills because i had new words to include in my writing, so it sounded more proffetional and not so immature. I could use plenty of these words in my essays or in other classes that required writing. They helped make my writing seem smarter due to my "advanced" vocabulary. Not only that, but when i read books i could easily recognize the word that we had been studying and i no longer had to go to a dictionary to look up the word because i had already learned it. Many of the books i read were filled with the vocab word i had learned in class, this made my books more understandable.

The topic i chose for my blogs was very intersting but it was just as difficult as it was interesting. I struggled a lot when it came to finding new information on the topic. But i do not regret choosing this topic because i learned a lot during about the Apocalypse and this topic was always a topic that intrigued me. Researching this topic made me realize that we may be close to the end and that we should be prepared for when it comes. I also found a lot of different predictions that people have made of when the world will end. Seems like people fancy the idea of everyone dying... very strange. I am a rather religious person so this topic was educational as well as interesting. It is good to know that most of the events going on right now are associated to the apocalypse in different ways. I do not believe my generation will have to go through the apocalypse, but i want to be prepared just in case. It is not only that i want to be prepard, but i would also like to strengthen my relationship with God. I believe that by choosing this topic i learned a little more about my religion and about what God wants from us.

Although this topic may have been a very difficult topic to study and it made me give up at certain points, i am still glad i chose it because i learned a lot. This semester may have been tough for me, but i am glad i could still get something out of it.