Last quarter, journaling, and motivation.

This past quarter was one of the hardest quarters I had thus far. Even though it was only 15 credits, the work load equated/if not, then surpassed the quarter I took 18 credits - four classes. This past quarter was also the one where I took on a 24 hr/week internship commitment. There were people who doubted me, they thought I couldn't handle this load. At times I doubted myself. In addition to this work load and internship - one of my friendships was compromised due to someone admitting their feelings to which I did not feel the same... throwing me further off track. But I eventually snapped out of it - Instead of holding onto negative feelings and negative thoughts, I journaled it all. Instead of moping around, lying in bed, or feeling sorry for myself - I wrote every single thought, emotion, and event down. Journaling was my outlet this quarter. Being able to release all these thoughts and emotions allowed for me to focus on what was really important. In addition, the friends I made this past quarter in my classes - Lucy, Sharon, Rachel, Sam, Andres, and Graciela, and a friend I’ve made several quarters ago, Daniel, really helped motivate me and helped me work my hardest. In addition to my long time standing support system aka my sister and my best friend Crystal. Although this past quarter was one of the hardest yet, I believe it was the most rewarding and self-enriching. Journaling really does wonders... Oh and I ended this quarter with an overall GPA of 3.9... See, working hard, losing sleep, and staying focused, NO MATTER HOW BUSY OR “IMPOSSIBLE,” is possible. People told me it was impossible to maintain good grades while committing so much time to my internship... I made it possible by managing my time and focusing on the end goal. 

A GPA of 3.9 is my highest GPA of my whole college career for any quarter. For my Crime and Punishment final, I ended up with a 99/100, the second midterm I got a 98, and the first one I scored a 100. For that class I racked up a 4.0 overall grade point average. Overall, I think I'm really going to miss this class because of all the awesome people I met.

For my U.S. Race and Ethnic Politics class, I ended up with an overall grade of 3.8, one of the three people in my section to get a 4.0 on the first analytical paper, a 3.8 on the midterm, a 3.8 on my second analytical paper and a 98/100 on the final. I was looking at the statistics for the final and the max grade was a 98. This was by far one of the harder classes due to all the of readings we had to do. In addition to that, the TA I had a pretty strict TA who looked for certain things in the essays and the exam answers...

Yay, I managed to be at the top of the class. Lastly, for my Immigration Citizenship Rights class, I ended up with a 3.9 GPA. There is not much to say for this class except for there were a lot of readings and that most of the class material was pretty straight forward. 

This quarter, I'm taking four classes again - a load of 18 credits. I'm taking two public speaking based classes in hopes of improving my public speaking skills because it is essential to have these skills when entering the real world. This quarter might be a tad bit stressful for me considering the fact I'm not great at public speaking since I'm so shy. Hard to believe right? I'm taking a political theory class... which is also hard because I'm use to writing empirically... not normatively. As of right now, I am struggling with my first paper due to not knowing where to really start. And then there's my LSJ internship class. 

I'll post something else later this month... but as for now, off to start doing my homework.