End of the Week!

Today is the last actual day of classes. It is crazy to think that this is the end of the first semester of my first year of college already. It definitely has not been easy but it has been a fun, challenging, new experience and I'm sad that the first half went so fast. This first semester has already taught me so much about myself as a person and learner. It has also given me the opportunity to meet and get to know different types of people. This past week has really given me a lot of insight into my future as a student at Wartburg College. To get everything accomplished that I needed to this week, I really had to manage my time. The amount of work and studying that I had to complete this week was quite a bit and rather stressful. There were quite a few nights this week that I was up into the wee hours of the morning trying to get papers, presentations, or an understanding of material done. It hasn't been easy but I know that I can handle that amount of stress, pressure, and work. Even though this difficult week is over, I'm not quite done yet. This following week is the beginning of finals. I am fortunate enough to be done on Wednesday. I have one final on Monday, one on Tuesday, and an exam on Wednesday. I plan on taking each day one at a time and getting a lot of studying done. This probably means that I will be staying up pretty late again but it's all worth it in the end to recieve that knowledge and even more so that good grade. Although I know that a liberal education is supposed to teach students that grades aren't as valuable as we make them out to be. I still can't agree with this concept. If grades weren't important, than graduate schools and businesses wouldn't use this as a determining factor. Since they do, I believe that this is why we as students work so hard in order to get the grade. We like succeeding and recieving that feedback that lets us know we are doing well.