So as a program ambassador my job is to represent the faculty of theology and to walk alongside whoever seeks advice or desires help with looking at Ambrose ministry degrees. What an incredible job I have! I absolutely love it… but I have a confession to make to you all, and please try not to judge me too harsh for this entry! My confession is this: I am a less than a worthy example in one way (well, maybe more than one, but for the sake of this entry, I’m focusing on one)… I am far too much of a procrastinator far too often!
Yes, I said it (I’m feeling rather vulnerable here; please encourage me at some point in the near future)! You know, I do a lot of good things around the school. I am on both the Hockey and Volleyball teams, I am on the Youth Conference Leadership planning committee, I am on two separate worship teams for the school, I am a program ambassador… I do lots of things well, except I often am less than excellent at the whole planning of my time in a semester.
I am writing this blog as a warning to you future students. I am not writing to talk about the burden of university academia, the hours of work or the ridiculous amount of papers (though those are certainly the reality of post-secondary education), I am writing this out as a warning, to you my friends, so that you can be ahead of the game come your triumphal entry to Ambrose academics! I am writing this humbling blog entry out of a sincere desire for you to succeed and to thrive at Ambrose!
So my message is this… And I beg you, plan your semesters well! Otherwise you will find yourself in a situation very similar to mine where you will have 7 papers due within eight days of each other [I should clarify, I was in six classes this past semester, which is more than the average course load… and five of them were senior level religion courses, so that IS an abnormal amount of work, you need not fret, too much ;)]. But having that much work is way too much for a person to handle with maintaining some sense of sanity. I am sure, you can ask my friends, I was loopy over the past few weeks as I was trying my darndest to finish these projects up, while trying to achieve a solid semester G.P.A!
Here is my lesson to you and the moral to this story…errrr… this blog.
Plan out your semester, know the work you have to do, see when your papers are going to be due, see when your exams/quizzes/reading reports/projects/finals etc. are due, and plan accordingly! It is possible to go a semester without having to pull an all-nighter; I am currently in the process of discovering how this can be done! But my friends I want you to do well when you are here, so that is a lesson I have learned over my three years at the school that I am still trying to navigate on how to accomplish well!
As always this time of year, the close of the fall semester, I am trying to make my next semester better than this past one! Let us see if it can happen! A goal? Let’s start realistically, try to avoid all nighters :)
Merry Christmas, He truly is the only reason for this season!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment