High School Tracking Blog
I'm making this blog with the purpose of using it as a way to keep me motivated and accountable throughout high school. I just started my second semester of freshman year and it feels like it went by so quickly. In the future when applying to colleges or feeling nostalgic, I want something I can look back on. As well, I want something to use to track my goals, achievements, and daily activities. Productivity and organization are some of the most important things to me. Recently, however, many obstacles have gotten in the way of that. I want to use this blog as a way to hold myself accountable.
Always, I want to be honest about what I did on here. I am not creating this for clout or for recognition. This is mostly a personal tool. But finding other people on here, exg. studyblr, who have the same goals is motivating. Even if I had a bad day where I didn't complete any work, I don't want to post and say I did everything I wanted to make myself feel better. This will probably be something no one ever sees, but I'm okay with that. My academics are incredibly important to me, and I put a lot of effort into maintaining my grade.
I also want to use this as a way to focus myself away from time wasters. I spend more time than I would like on youtube and other things like that. Even with the smallest amount of free time, I want to do something witht hat time instead of just wasting that time. I might post my screen time at times, as I want to lower it.
Classes
American Government
Biology
Geometry
Lit/Comp
Art
Concert Band
Physical Fitness
Spanish
Clubs and Affiliations
National Honors Society (Member)
Model United Nations (Founder and President)
Research Team (Secretary)
Fencing Academy (Member)
Art Gallery dept. (Member)
Concert band (First Chair)
Chess club (Member)
Academia
My largest academic interests are Linguistics and Mathematics. I'm going to be taking many AP classes next year and the following so I give myself time to start teaching myself the curriculum ahead of time. I also want to be consistent in thorough in studying for sat/psats. I always have troubles with studying. When I sit down to review, I don't know what to do. I already know all the material I review and it feels like a waste of time. Despite this, I will try to find time for it, and motivation.
Arts
I'm enrolled into band class, but it is not something I am very passionate about. I appreciate what it for what it is. But because it is only required for 2 years, I will not be taking it as soon as possible. I also am teaching myself guitar. I really enjoy rock music and would love to start a band. In a world where I have enough time, enough people interested, and a way to get everyone in the same place at the same time. My main track in school currently is Visual Arts, it is not the career I want to pursue. I really enjoy creating art. Graphite is something I very enjoy. Next year, I take AP art. There's a lot of summer work for that class I want to start on as soon as possible because there is many pieces in the assignment. As well, I need to practice my instrument more for band. I can tell that I am a weak link in our band department, which is very small.
Commitments
I've been hurting to make a list of everything I'm responsible for / commited to. I'm a secretary on the research team at my school. I have research to do and planning about my school credits. I contests for art I always need to be entering. I need to draw more. I have to practice a lot more. I should be doing a lot of research and prep for college and other programs. Planning for summer programs and post secondary application. Writing the essays. I have the club I started at school, MUN. Increasing the amount of members in it. Brainstorming ways to increase participation. Working on finding conferences to attend. Learning more about procedure.
As well I am learning two languages. I've been learning Spanish for 3 years and think I'm decent. I have spanish speaking family, so I can practice with them. As well I am teaching myself Russian, in contrast to Spanish which I am learning in a classroom setting. I always can be practicing those. I can always be tyding my room and keeping it cleaner. I am also writing a story. My ideal end goal woul dbe to have an animated TV series at some point in my life about this story. However, I think i will pursue it as a personal project to make a graphic novel or manga of it. I enjoy writing, but i dont want to take a creative writing class. I am also interested in music making, a family member gifted me a few pieces of equipment that I have not gotten much use out of. However, I would love to do it more. I'm sure I have countless more commitments, ones that I cannot think of at the moment. In the future, for moments like these where I cant remember all that i am tied to, I want to be able to use this blog as a steadfast reference.
Posts
I want to make a small post everyday of what I accomplished that day, highlights, lows, and any other information. Like an online diary. I may as well post intermediately of longer topics. I will probably update this post every-few months. I think this will be effective, It will be most effective if I avoid distraction of Youtube and of this site when I go online to make posts. I appreciate this.
