Studying

Hey Guys,


I think we have stumbled upon a new type of torture. It is not longer water torture, pain torture, no it is studying. It is making the examples easier then the exam just to make sure you feel confident then go oh crap! I am going to be finishing up my third year of University soon, and this is after 2 years of IB. I hate studying not because I do not want to do well but because what is the point? To get a good grade to do well etc... I know that but I miss those "good ol' days" What do I mean by this?


I miss evaluations based upon the actual student not some test. I HATE testing to this day I freak out when I see multiple choice, or I see a scantron. If you give me a written it just gives me so much joy, the ability to express what you actually know instead of circling an answer. This will be a common discussion about how to test people you will forever see in educations circles and also in circles of life. It is this, how do you test someone? It is really easy to do a scantron, you run it through it marks for you and you are DONE. It is much easier to give someone a 90% on a multiple choice then to read through and grade hundreds peoples answers to questions.


People will say they like written because you can BS and answer but something I am starting to see is this. You have to at least know what you are talking about to make up something. A funny story about this was in psychology class.  I missed a few classes because of being sick and I came to write a quiz with little to no class attendance or studying. Turns out the test was on emotional health and stress, with a focus on depression. Guess how I did? Well it is simple as this for me, it is easier to remember something I have experienced or done. It is difficult for me always to stay focus while study because I know I am going to forget half of this by sunrise and the majority of it by the time the next test comes around.


This has turned into more of a rant but that is life, I am just frustrated with school lately, it is hard to stay focused when you do not see a purpose in it all. I am not saying there is no purpose in school or getting a education but rather not seeing what you are going to do when you graduate is difficult to do the small stuff now.


Goodbye for now,
Christian Sawka

Relax

Hey Guys,

Surprisingly this weekend seemed to be busy. Constantly something was going on and I had a limited amount of time to just relax. The thing I am starting to learn is that there is a difference between being lazy and relaxing. Sometimes we get them mixed up. I know I do the thing is relaxing is doing something to clam yourself while being lazy is just doing absolutely nothing. Have you ever noticed when you take a full day off you feel less relaxed then we you started? Well that is the thing you feel lazy not relaxed. Feeling relax can and mostly comes with a feeling of accomplishment as though there has been a weight lifted off your shoulders. A little more professional definition is this:

Relax: become less tense, rest, or take one's ease; "He relaxed in the hot tub"; "Let's all relax after a hard day's work" 

Laziness: Unwilling to do work or make an effort; Requiring little or no effort

See there actually is a difference. Relaxing in my opinion is making a effort to do something to take tension off yourself, while laziness is unwilling to do anything. In my personal experience being lazy only makes you less relaxed. The reason I am bringing this up is because I am debating if lately I have been lazy or if I have been relaxed sometimes it is difficult to know the difference. I have been getting alot done but also have been taking a fair amount of time off. I have been accomplishing tasks one step at a time but I also have been spending alot of time alone. That is a debate I will be having over these next couple weeks as exams are coming up.

YOU NEED TO RELAX, take time out of your day to relax, breathe but at the same time being lazy will be extremely negative for my education and my health. Maybe that is something to think about how much time do we spend just being lazy and not actually accomplishing anything to help us relax? Probably if you are reading this and your a student you either A. Enjoy my blog, B. It popped up in your feed or C. You are trying to not do homework. I do that all the time. It is enjoyable to be lazy and do absolutely nothing but it tends to stress me out time and time again because I will waste time. Whether it be on Youtube, Facebook, Lamebook etc... I waste my time and can be lazy but usually if I have not accomplished enough I will get stressed out even more. Maybe I am wrong though right? What do you think...? Do you think being relaxed includes being lazy at some points or is there no place for being lazy?

Goodbye for now,

Christian Sawka

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Priority

Hey Guys,

Something that is starting to become more and more important in my life is priorities and what means the most to me in my life. When I was battling through depression, nothing was a priority in my life. Anything and everything seem not urgent or important and any point. Well now that I have worked through most of my depression the first thing that has happened is EVERYTHING became a priority to me. I went back to over-extending myself, I wanted to do everything under the sun this included anything and everything once again. As anyone who has read my blog for a while knows I came to a real fight with the importance of life. Well once you come out of that you have a new energy for life, a new vigor to get stuff down and a push to live life once again. Unfortunately you have to be careful as to how much you take on. I have been told since the moment I came to TWU I was the type of person who LOVES to get involved and my biggest weakness was I like to do too much. It is something I will master eventually and something I am working on is what is a priority in my life.

On a day to day level it is easy.... there are four categories: Urgent and Important, Important and Not Urgent, Urgent and Not important, and Not Important or Urgent. Something my mentor and my dad have told me since the beginning of this year and for my dad since the beginning of my life is to prioritize my task. Each day you have to prioritize everything because you cannot get everything done but somethings are more important than others. For example (my dad is going to love this) Getting a paper done has more importance then watching TV or Movies. Studying is more important then talking to a friend till the wee hours of the night. It is always easy to prioritize things as what is important, urgent or neither. Here I will give you a list before making my final point.

Work? Homework? Church? Studying? Sleeping? Running? Watching TV? Reading the Newspaper? Family? Facebook? etc... what are your priorities there?

Here is my final and probably the biggest point I have to make about my life and priorities. Everything in life especially in my life is my own personal priority. What I mean by this is that the importance I put on things is extremely objective. If I do not want to do something that is vitally important I will not do it. It is not because I am lazy or anything but it is because I myself do not see the importance of that task. That is the biggest thing I am leaving about priority in life is that as vital or important and urgent a task can be, I myself need to make it a priority! Maybe it comes with growing up when you learn to 'suck it up' and get it done. Right now though, I think sleep is a priority!

Goodbye for now,

Christian Sawka