Keeping Up with AMORE

Motivation. Source: Flickr . These past two weeks of school have been really rough for me, but I guess that is how life goes when you are in college. I worked a lot in these past two weeks and it completely drained me. On top of that, I had to study for my microbiology and organic chemistry exam. Again, I have not been completing the assignments for this class to the best of my ability. During fall break though, I finished all of the assignments for this week and did majority of the extra credit assignments as well. I am slowly heading towards my goal for this class, which is to get an A. I really hope I reach this goal by the end of this semester and I do not continue to slack in this class or in my other ones since half of the semester is already done with. After doing a review for this class, I realized I let myself go and got too comfortable with how this class is setup. After coming to that realization, I need to step up my game and be on top of things because life does not...

Me hoping to jump in the air like this picture after this semester. Source: Flickr . I have been stressed out with school, so I wanted to give this happiness challenge a shot and see what happens from here on out. I think this idea is great because it will give me an opportunity to take time out everyday to think about one thing that made me happy. I plan on writing at least one thing that made me happy everyday on a sticky note and sticking it somewhere in my room. I am going to try to be descriptive with it as well, so when I look back at the sticky note, I can remember what happened and hopefully, it will bring up my mood!

Being different can give you power. Growing up, I personally thought I was different from everyone because of my race. Going to a predominantly white school did not help with that but I overcame the culture difference by embracing my culture and educating others about it as well. To this day, I am glad that I am Asian and different from everyone else. We all struggle. I chose this cat picture because I struggle every single day. I am struggling to catch up in this class but I am slowly making progress! I feel like without struggle, you cannot get anywhere in life. So thank goodness I struggle quite often.

To be quite honest, I am not happy with the progress I have made in this class. I have been missing assignments left and right, and that is on me for letting my personal issues interfere with my education. This class is fairly easy and I should get an A with no problem; however, missing a bunch of assignments is not helping me reach my goal. I am very disappointed in my work ethic this semester and would like to fix this issue before it is too late. Besides that, I think the work I am proud of the most would be my first story assignment. I had something in mind I was shooting for but my product ended up being completely different, which is fine! The class assignments I enjoy the most are the project ones. I liked setting up the website for my portfolio and can't wait to tweak it a little bit when I have time to. For the rest of the semester, I plan on doing every assignment, including extra credit ones as well, in order for me to get an A in this class. You can do it! Source: M...

So far, the comments and feedback I received in this class has been very helpful. Everyone who commented gave me constructive criticism, which will help improve my writing skills. I feel like suggestive comments are the most useful ones in my opinion. I am very open to other writing options and take people's advices when it is given. Suggestive comments can also help clear up any confusion when I revise my stories! I think the comments and feedback I gave are good. I followed the weekly guidelines on how to give feedback to students to the best of my ability. As I am reading through students' writing, I usually find cool ideas that I could incorporate into my own story. At the beginning of the semester when I completed majority of the assignments, I was able to connect with people through there blogs; however, I have been slacking so the connection is not exactly there anymore. I would like to catch up and connect with more students. I liked my introduction post and would n...

Looking back, I wished I completed more reading and writing assignments. I feel like I really slacked off in this class, which is my fault. I've been going through a lot and haven't had time to complete all off the assignments I wanted to do. This class isn't the only class I've been slacking in. It's all of my classes if I'm being quite honest. However, we do have a break this week, so I'm going to use it to catch up in all of my classes and hopefully get ahead start as well. Other than that, I like where my project portfolio is going so far. I need to add another story, so I could get feedback on it. I personally like writing my stories over the Jataka Anthology. The only two stories I've written were over Jataka. I'm going to try to write over something else but I think Jataka stories are in my comfort zone. Golden Deer I chose this picture because of the illustration and the story from this picture. I really enjoyed this part of the Rama...