Now that we are halfway through this school year, I'll be using this blog post as a way to reflect on how I've been so far. Overall this year has been a train-wreck, it feels like most everything that could go wrong has pretty much gone wrong. The whole virtual learning thing has definitely not been good for me, sitting down t my desk all day just isn't a very effective way for me to learn since I'm naturally a very curious person and I have struggled without being able to ask immediate questions like I could in a standard classroom environment. I feel like in any other year virtual learning probably would have been a okay solution for me but combined with the fact that its my senior year so I also have a big case of senior-itis where motivation is at an all time low, and it was super easy for me to fall into a hole like I did. I don't really know how deep I want to get into this but since it is MY blog and I can do what I want, I'll go as deep as I feel comfortable about doing so. This year has really taken a toll on my mental health, I won't go too deep into it because it make me sad just thinking about it but it felt like I was letting a lot of things all apart. School was just horrible and I wasn't actually learning anything and there wasn't too much life outside of that that could bring me up. Overall the was pretty much the theme of the first half of my school year, it was sad, but the good thing about being at rock bottom is that the inky way to go is up!
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So last week was our first real week of online learning (with our first week being orientation), so I figured for my first blog post of the year I decided to give my thoughts on it. So this year is my first real year in school while having a kind-of block schedule, let me explain, so on Mondays and Thursdays we have 1st, 3rd, 5th, and 7th period live classes and on Tuesdays and Fridays we have the rest of our classes. Now we don't have any live classes on "Wellness Wednesdays" which is where teachers can assign work but can't have zoom calls. This has been so great where we can just get all of our work done in the morning and then just have the rest of the day to myself to relax and recharge for the next day. But for normal school days We have an hour call then we have an hour support period where teachers are available to help students but its just for us to get our work done for that class. Now I actually really like this because depending on how fast I get my work done I can just chill until my next call similar to Wednesdays. Now one of my big issues these past weeks has been having to go on and do our attendance manually which to me has just been a pain in the butt just going and filling out 7 google forms per day but I understand why the teachers have to do it. I do feel like teachers this year have been put in a really difficult position, having to teach a course that is mean't to be taught in a classroom but I do feel like they have been doing the best they can with what resources they have. A note on the resources we have, canvas is a little bit annoying, I remember on one of the first days of class zoom was overloaded because student all across the country pretty much overloaded the app so teachers had to find a work-around for that. Overall I thing that these things are going to definitely take some getting used too but I think that I will be able to adjust just fine.
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