Justin's Blog

To me,  Siddhartha  offers a new perspective of life that is contrary to mine. I like to have set plans ahead of time, and I am someone who tries my best to follow these small steps to achieve what I have always wanted. Besides school work, because I seem to procrastinate and cram them last minute, I prefer to know what I am doing; for example, before I entered high school, I mapped out what courses I wanted to take, what activities I wanted to do, and what accomplishments I wanted to achieve. Similarly, I do have somewhat of a plan for my next upcoming few years- I do have a major decided that I want to study, possible internships that I want to take, and types of activities I want to do that would promote my academic growth. However, some of my plans fail, which easily gets me frustrated and nervous... Siddhartha  however tells me that it is okay when plans don't work in our favor... let me explain. In his journey to find enlightenment, he deliberately plans all the cou...

Reading and writing- the two things I dread the most, still- has always been my biggest academic setback. I don't know why, but I just suck at it. I don't really feel comfortable with my essays. I'm not the biggest fan in participating in the Harkness discussions... for some reason, I always feel hesitant in sharing others my thoughts because I fear that I would be judge... or just forget how to speak entirely.  One improvement I made this year is confidence... I think at least. Well, I definitely will say I got a little bit more comfortable with my reading and writing skills—maybe I wouldn't necessarily say I got better or anything, but my scores on my essays prove to me that my analysis isn't stupid. I can trust myself more and have more courage to share out my thoughts and ideas, but this is something I just need to continuously work on for rest of my school year.  I feel like confidence in this class ties very strongly with reading skills, and maybe I wasn't...

        In just ten years from now, what do you think would be the most memorable part of your high school life? Let me guess… is it overloading your schedule with a bunch of AP courses and stressing all day and night studying for your exams? Is it all the friendships you managed to create and all the fun events you’ve gone to? Or maybe, it’s when we all somehow suffered through online learning for a year and cheated our way through most of our classes :’)            While I do think all these are memorable, I wouldn’t say MOST memorable. For me, I think it is all the unnecessary dramas that I have encountered or heard… I swear I have more important matters in my life, but there is nothing more entertaining than all the dramas circulating in high school (unless you’re the center of that drama obviously). And no, this is not me gaining pleasure from minding other people’s business. In fact, it is kind of the opposite. I don’t really...