Blog Post #14: Assignment 14A - Halfway Reflection

1. To keep up with all of the requirements of this course, I like to mark down all important dates and assignment deadlines for the course in my calendar in my iPhone. This way I'm able to keep track of all of my assignments and get reminded by my phone when certain due dates are approaching. I also like to space out all of my course work and do a little bit each day. Whether I'm watching parts of a lecture every day or completing an assignment over the duration of numerous days, this allows me to not fall behind in the course. 
2. There have been many moments where I felt like "giving up" over the past couple months. One day, after coming home from 14-hour day at my unpaid internship, all I wanted to do was take a shower, eat some food, and go to bed. However, I had a lecture in this class to watch and an assignment in another class that was due that night. Now even though every bone in my body was telling me to just skip all my school work and just go to bed, what pulled me through was imagining what my mom would say to me if she was there next to me. After imagining my mom nagging me to stop feeling sorry for myself and to just power through and get my school work done, I watched the lecture and completed my homework assignment. I would say that this moment and this same strategy that I've used to push myself to finish my school work whenever I don't feel like it has helped me develop a tenacious attitude. 
3. To foster the skills that support tenacity and to develop the "tenacious mindset", I would suggest to next semester's student that he/she think about why they're taking the course, to remember that they'll regret putting an assignment off until tomorrow when they could just get it done today, and that it's better to do a little at a time than to try to cram everything into one sitting.