Making up ground

This weekend was probably one of the more stressful weekends I've ever had. In high school there was no such thing as a stressful weekend, but in college my weekends are used to catch up on schoolwork and get ready for another week of classes. This weekend in particular was tough due to the two cross country meets I had to go through. I hate missing classes, and am glad that this is the only time I will for meets. I basically lost all of friday night and most of saturday so I was playing catch-up saturday night and all of today. The hardest thing to organize out of all the workload is the group projects or activities. Dealing with my own work is easy, but scheduling times to meet with groups for group projects is frustrating. I've never been a fan of out of class group projects. Everything seems to take twice as long to get accomplished and becomes more frustrating than if I just did the work myself. Coordinating with others in group projects has always been a weakness of mine, something I hope to change in my time at Wartburg. Dealing with others is a necessary skill and not something to neglect.

On another note, I'am looking forward to this weeks classes. We have our first unit test in Biology and I'am anxious to discover just how hard these tests are. In high school I always heard from other people that a certain class was really hard and then after taking it myself I always discovered they were full of crap. I can't stand it when people tell me I can't handle something. Who are they to tell me what I can't do?! I always enjoyed proving these people wrong by getting an A in the supposedly "hard" class. I learned quickly never to take to heart anything that people say about courses. I prefer to find out for myself and then make a decision rather than rely on other people's opinions. On a lighter note, I'am also looking forward to my IS 101 class. I really enjoy having the group discussions that we are having. It is an extremely unstressful way of learning about the material. I also enjoy voicing my own opinions, and I like hearing from other viewpoints. Overall, it should be a good week, and hopefully I'll have some days to just relax for a bit.