The Tortoise and Hare

So here I am, sitting in my little cramped room, there are an assortment of books and the typical selection of student impromptu “sustenance” scattered from the floor to the ceiling (somehow stuff just manages to stick up there) I am staring at the words I’m typing right now and thinking of what to write next, frantically pulling my hair out and obviously using this vague, haphazard introduction to begin my first blog entry.

It’s a common college student habit to leave one’s work to the last minute (and I’m sure some of my readers, if there are any out there, know what I’m talking about), and naturally this habit is not beneficial, the deadline comes closer and closer, we students rush to get our work done, the workload naturally causes stress and the quality of our work suffers significantly. From the beginning of the college year I had exactly told myself not to do this again, yet my constant reminders only enforced the habit, possibly to a much worse degree than before; perhaps I had accidentally caused a reverse psychology effect on myself? Note to self: “slack-off” more (yes I’m definitely going to be published now).

I used to think that I am, or rather I would have liked to identify as, a theorist or a reflector however, looking back at my actions this term, I think I am or have become more of a pragmatist; this is further confirmed after I’ve taken a Honey and Mumford Learning style questionnaire. That’s not to say that some aspects of the former learning styles aren’t present within me but I think it’s natural to assume that everyone usually is a mixture of all four styles (one style more prominent or lacking than the other). Honey and Mumford had designed these categories to help learners like myself to identify our strengths and weaknesses but I personally feel as if I had failed to utilise the knowledge I’ve gained from discovering my own style.

What knowledge is that you ask? Since I am supposedly more of a pragmatist, my weaknesses lie in my, for the lack of a better word, ‘eagerness’; quite coincidentally my name does actually mean ‘eager lord’, bless my parents. Pragmatists are eager to trying out ideas, they like to work on ideas that attract them and perhaps this is why I have been feeling very much unmotivated lately? Most of the work this term, to me personally felt like a disguised repeat of the last term and perhaps I was simply hoping for something new, how selfish can I get right? If this is truly the common denominator, then perhaps to tackle this problem, I would have to simply try and look at an old problem in a different light? The next time I am faced with a similar task, I should not strive to work harder on it rather I should strive to explore a different way of doing things to keep things fresh.