Journal #9

During this year I have been getting a lot of homework. I have two AP classes, and most of them are weighted. I also have to do the work that everybody else did over the summer for AP history because I did not get put into that class until August. I basically have multiple hours of homework everyday, so it can be somewhat overwhelming at times. As school was just getting started, and I the homework was beginning to pile up, I became upset. I did not know how I was going to get it all done for the next day. I was pretty angry, and I did not know what to do. Then my mom told me to just take a break, and step away. She said that I did not get much sleep last night, so I should just rest. I took her advice, and I simply took a nap. I got some rest, and then I was thinking more logically. I got back to work, after listening to my mom, and I finished it all up. It took a while, but I did get it done after a couple hours. I am usually level headed all the time, and there is really only a handful of people who have ever seen me angry even once. The only time I ever get upset is when I have trouble on homework. I do not like it when I cannot understand something, but I really only react when I do not have enough sleep also. I think this is mostly because I usually do understand everything when I first learn it, so I do not like when it does not make sense to me. Usually my mom will give the good advice to just step away from it and relax for a second. Usually doing things in a rational approach will work almost every time. I pretty much take a rational approach to everything I do, so I complete things the way that they need to be done most of the time. I think that avoiding emotion can help accomplish the majority of tasks.