Famous Last Words: The Last One

The Last One

So folks, here we are. The last day of classes for this horrible semester, at least for me. However, I am going to admit that this was my FAVORITE class for this semester. I literally cannot wait until finals are over. This semester has really tested my patience. This week has really tested my patience as well. From finding out  I have so many things due this week (because professors hate us and like to just push everything into one week) to finding out Netflix was going to take Friends off in 2019 (but they're not, thank god. But they could also use that $100 million for better things, I agree).

One big mistake I made in this class was not putting in enough effort for this class from the beginning because from the amount of work that I have done for this class since around October, I have had so much fun. I honestly loved some of the readings and the extra credits that we got to do. My favorite thing ever was the movie Sita Sings the Blues. If I could go back and start early on in the semester like I should've, I feel like I could've done much better in this class.

And Laura, I hope you read this. But thank you SO much for everything! I appreciate you so much for all of the encouragement, help, and feedback you have provided throughout the semester. I have learned so much about my culture from this class. And not just about my culture, but about myself as well. I didn't think I had a single writing bone in my body, but my imagination and creativity was definitely put to use. I really hope you keep teaching this class, as well as the Myth and Folklore class!

The Friends peephole. Source: The Reading Fangirl.

I named my post "The Last One" and the last two episodes of friends are also titled "The Last One." I thought this would be perfect to use as an image because this is the closing scene from the series finale. 

Famous Last Words: Surviving these next few weeks

So here it is. The Sunday of Thanksgiving break, the end of this much, much needed break. My goal for this break was to finish up this class but that didn't happen sadly. However, I'm going to try to set that as my goal for this next week. I definitely want to finish before dead week. That just means I'm going to need to invest a whole lot of time into this class now.

However, this was my best week of class because I'm actually going to end up doing all of the assignments, meaning all of the regular and the extra credit. I'm lowkey proud of myself. I'm going to set the goal to do the same thing this next week too. Hopefully, I won't have to do all of the extra credits to reach my desired grade. I don't think I will have to but we'll see. The only thing I didn't really like was my story I wrote this week. It wasn't my best because I really couldn't come up with anything. I kind of just threw some thoughts around and it into a story.

This week I got to do some fun readings. For the regular readings, I finished up the Epified: Mahabharata videos I had started. For the extra credit readings, I read some Jataka Tales and they were fun to read. I have found other videos from the same channel that I will use as extra credit readings. I started watching the Sita Sings the Blues movie for this week's reading and I'm already enjoying it so much. I'm so excited to finish it! It's honestly the best thing I've watched in this class. I don't know how I'll write a story for it because it is already so awesome itself, but I think I'll be able to come up with something.

I'm honestly so stressed about all of my classes, but I'm glad I have this class as a bit of break from all of the hard classes. I actually look forward to doing the readings for this class, especially for this week.

Meme I made. Woody's face describes me perfectly. Source: ImgFlip.

Growth Mindset: Trying New Things

Growth Mindset: Trying New Things

The Growth Mindset challenge I did was the "Learn from Other Students" one. For the challenge, I was to find quotes from former students that would show me something new, like a different way of thinking. So I went to the Padlet and started looking. Initially, I thought I wouldn't find much and have to do another challenge because I had already heard the same old inspiring quotes that most everyone will have in their Instagram bios or retweet on Twitter. But I was actually shocked when I started finding some that were so unique and different, things that I wouldn't even think about. Here are a few of the my favorite ones I found.

NEVER BE COMPLACENT

I like this one because it really speaks to me. I was never the complacent child that I would just accept things the way they were. I always asked questions and always wondered why I had to do this and that. Even today, I still question many things about society and culture and why girls are expected to be a certain way and etc. I think this will be a good reminder to me to never stop questioning, to never just be. I think the fact that I question many things helps me grow as a person.

R.U.N. Rejoice Under Negativity. 
I don't have a problem with taking negative feedback from people, but I do sometimes tend to just ignore it. I realize that doing that doesn't make it just disappear or go away. That feedback, that opinion of theirs will still be there, and it's up to me to take it in good stride and change it.

WHAT I AIM AT
Over the last few years, I have definitely strayed off track a few times. I have forgotten what my goals are and what I need to achieve because of stress. I have given up many times and felt like a failure. But I've also picked myself up so many times so this really spoke to me. This will be a great reminder to remember that I have so many goals I'm aiming to achieve and I need to not give up so easily when times get rough.

Meme I made using the ImgFlip meme generator. Source: ImgFlip.