Final Reflection
This semester has been good but a little overwhelming, I had to get adjusted to having a job and
going to school something that I have never done before. Somedays I would have lots of time
after work, but I was tired and overstimulated after having to deal with a lot of costumers and
just wanted to lay in my bed. Still, I felt guilty that I procrastinated but just could not focus on
my house, at times it seems impossible to finish a simple assignment because of my inability to
focus. Everything distracted and sometimes it seems like I was looking for any excuse to not do
my homework. I had become someone past me would be ashamed of, with all those late
assignments piling up and worrying if my teachers would accept them. But I still really enjoyed
my classes, I did make the most of them when I had class and luckily, I did get very flexible
teachers this semester that accepted my late work and did not take points off. Which I know it’s
a privilege because last semester I did get teachers that were very serious about late work some
who did not even accept it. But I know that I must fix my procrastination problem because it will
only affect me negatively moving forward especially when I get very strict teachers. I find that I
work better when I’m at school, something about the environment or my brain already
associates this place with getting things done. In this case I plan on staying in school after class
until I finish my assignments or as long as I make an appropriate amount of progress. But I still
think this semester has been very rewarding when it comes to adjusting to this new
circumstance, for next semester I will now know what to expect, But still I have to be better at
managing my time, I plan on buying a calendrer and writing my schedule on a journal with the
dates and due times and a plan of action so I do not get behind, I started doing that this week
and so far it has worked very good. I also plan on talking to my boss about my schedules.
unfortunately, my schedules are all over the place with one day working from 3pm-11pm and
the next day working 7am-3pm, naturally this ends up with me being extremely tired especially
when working 8 hours a day and going to school, I plan on telling her to meet me halfway so we
can find a way for my schedules not to be as heavy as they are now. Maybe working only, the
morning shift so I can have the rest of the day to do my schoolwork or reducing my hours to 5
hours a day because sometimes 8 hours is way too much when you have a ton of homework
pilled up. If she does not agree to do this, I’m going to have to quit because at the end of the
day my education is way more important to me. But work aside I really enjoyed this class I
learned a lot about myself with my assignments. Something I like is that in a way we are the
ones choosing our assignments, because we made the question that we researched for the last
4 months, and honestly it has made the assignments enjoyable because I am researching
something I truly am interested in. I’ve learned a lot about myself, this class asked me about my
positionality something I never questioned before and that made me think about the place
where I live. And how everybody around me looks like me but how the people on the big screen
rarely do. This and my love for entertainment is what inspired my projects. I know I’m not the
best writer but I truly enjoyed it and appreciated everything I learned this semester.
