Observed Lessons: Sponsored by Finals Week

A reflection of my semester has a very clear appearance during this week. Lessons I've learned from my classes sometimes are just as important as the information I learn in classes. Confused? Let me explain.

I attend college because I like learning. I do homework because I like learning, but I also like a good grade. Being caught up in the hub-ub of school however, distracts me from several things in life. THAT is why the information learned in class is almost equally as important as lessons learned from my classes.

This semester I've learned about children and the appropriate ways to discipline and ways to connect with them so that their behavior is manageable and they end up being very well adjusted.

My sewing skills have increased so much that I was able to make a dress out of a 40 year old sleeping bag with no pattern and no measuring and it fit my model like a glove.

Research on any topic is often shaky, but especially in the nutrition world. In addition to that, children have an innate ability to know when they are hungry and exactly how much to eat. They can just sense it. So if they don't eat much, it's usually because they don't need it, and vice versa

If you want to know more about tailoring skills, if you ever want to get a suit tailored and think it is too expensive, don't come asking me to tailor it for you, because I will probably charge the same amount as the tailor. It is TIME CONSUMING. I pulled my first ever all nighter this week(which has given me a very strange range of emotions), ate junk food, didn't work out, shower, or drink water and spent three days on this project (in addition to the other three weeks that I had it) and turned it in unfinished. It's an awful sinking feeling, but it had to be done.

That leads me to the lessons learned from classes. School is a temporary small detail in our lives. The struggles are small and last only a short while. It's a common repetitive theme but it's something we forget most often. Projects, tests, homework come and go. We probably won't even remember the majority of them. But remembering to take time for others, to do somethings with other people, that's the events that we remember most and will actually mean something to us. If you forget that advice for a little while, don't worry, there is always a reminder coming for you.