My remix of projects 1 and 2

I have never been fond of going to school.  When I was in grade school I didn’t like going because it felt like I had to do it.  I was never given a choice if I wanted to go or stay home and be home schooled.  At the time I didn’t know I had a choice and it seemed like my entire childhood would be spent in school.  I didn’t like being forced to go to school and would have preferred to stay at home and play with my toys.  I was forced out of my comfort zone into an enviroment with other children, some of who I didn’t like or understand.

I remember that I wasn’t good at spelling when I was growing up.  I’m still not the best, thank god for ABC check and Google.  There was one instance where I believe I was in fourth grade.  I had fallen behind on my grades and needed some how to pick it up.  I devised a plan that seemed to work right up until I got caught.  I would cram the first five words into my brain right before the quiz.  I would “put away” my study sheet under my chair so that if I “accidently” dropped my pencil I would be able to see the other few words.  I got caught and my mother had to be called in by my teacher.  That was the first time and last time I would ever cheat on a quiz or test.  I had to come up with a different way to learn the words for the spelling quizzes.  Instead of procrastinating till the night before the quiz, I would start learning the words the day I got them.  It helped and I made it to the next grade.

Throughout my entire life I’ve always had issues with people in authority positions.  Especially when it came to school teachers and forcing me to do anything I didnt want to do.  If a person can’t make me want to do something, why should I do it?  There is only a couple times I can remember when I actually connected with any of my teachers was when I was in high school.  It was a very small school in a town with about two-thousand people.  The simple fact that it was a smaller community might have allowed me to get to know my teachers better.  Either that or because I was growing older and experiencing more things forcing me have more in common with my teachers then I did before.   The other time is when I was going to school with over two-thousand students.  I ran track and my art teach just happened to be my track coach.  Needless to say, we had a lot in common and had more to talk about.  I’ll never truly know why I had more of a connection with my teachers during high school. 

To this day I am still a super procrastinated type of person.  I will put off things until the last possible minute.  Sometimes in the past it would cost me letter grades on a project.  I can’t think of any specific times where it has been a problem, but I can tell you that I’ve been told more than once that I’m a procrastinator.    I find I do my best work when I sit down and do a project all the way through.  Instead of doing bits and pieces of the project, spaced out over a period of time.  I can normally judge the amount of time and effort a project will take.  That is where I get in trouble.  I put the project on the back burners and wait until I know I have to do it.  I prepare for projects mentally beforehand.   If it is needed, I can get the materials ready for when I need to start.  There is always the problem of forgetting about something or having an emergency come up.  That’s when the allotted time I set aside for myself becomes very short.  I’ve gotten better over the years, but I will always be known as someone who likes to procrastinate.

Easily the biggest influence that shaped my life was my time in the military.  Boot camp was strangely enjoyable, in a weird “let’s go camping with complete strangers” way. While in boot camp I was changed into a person that followed orders and got the job done.  One of the best things I learned while in boot camp, was patience.  I used what I learned a few years later when I had to deal with a superior that didnt know what he was doing.  He didnt know how any of the new technologies worked and would come to me for answers.  My superior would send us out to job sites he didnt know anything about and join us only on the ones he had back ground on.  I made rank and at the same time he retired(YEA BABY!).  I was thrown into his position with three people working directly for me.  Patience and learning to deal with things paid off. 

When I look back at my life up until now, there have been a lot of things that have affected my life.  Some were drastic and some were simply miniscule.  I realize that everything any one has ever done in my life has made me who I am today.  I embrace the people who made a positive effect on my life and scowl at those who just couldn’t be good human beings.  I know there is so much more to life that can be learned and I keep an open mind to everything.  If by chance that someday I am a teacher, I hope to be able to positively affect all my students.  As for right now in life, I’m absorbing as much as my brain can handle.  To this day, I still hate the abuse of power that is given to a person by the authority their job title has granted them.