Week 30

I just want to say upfront that I am aware of this being late. In the stress and chaos of this week's AP exams I totally lost my mental schedule for the 'usual' activities.

Anyways, week 30 everyone.

I'm very glad that we've come so far into the year with success. I can say very easily that it has been a great year but I know it's not over yet. As for this week, there was no reason to think the end is so close. This entire week I began to feel a rush in the course of things; almost as if we are accelerating to the end.

Compared to last week, this was a different trip. We spent lots of time not only learning and over viewing the material, but doing lots of practice too. Then the assessments came and went without effort. Really, that felt easy. However, this week was much more ferocious. We immediately dove into a derivative of last week's material that just had a different feel for things. I know, after looking at this as a whole, this shouldn't be difficult at all. It's what we've been doing, and then throwing in some extra. But that's were weird things happen. I understand the concept, but it's hard to say I've mastered the application. It's not easy from my perspective especially because I have the natural tendency to find multiple paths to the same answer. Perfect example was the review we were given when Mr. Roberts was subbing. I thought I had an idea what to do, and after a few minutes of refreshing my mind I thought I had a good grip of things. However, I checked the answers and to my dismay they weren't even close. What? How can that be? So I go back through the work and as said before, I find out a way to arrive at the answer. But then comes Thursday, and the instructor goes over the material with a totally different approach. That's where I start to freak out. Now I have no clue if whether or not my system really works or not. Unfortunately I think that's how the assessment went. I didn't really have a concrete methodology to solving the tasks. I can reasonable guess that this resulted in some poor performance.

So I can't really say here that the material was difficult. I'm not going to be of the many whiny peers of mine and complain about the material. I'm going to be honest and say that I didn't really put much into it, and that I really couldn't find the time to prepare or ask questions. Normally this doesn't happen, but every now and then it happens to come by. I think if we had a little more time to get this, everyone would have done better; because as soon as the class ended all I heard was "I failed" or "It's over" and so on. No one knew what they were doing. I really think some extra practice and insight would have been of assistance.