Article of the Week- October 8th “THE JOURNEY IS WHAT’S WORTH IT”
“It’s not where you go but what you do when you get there,” it says in the article Secrets of the Most Successful College Students written by Annie Murphy Paul. That quote made me think; why have teachers and parents all of our lives drilled us to go to the top colleges, to get the best grades and never (ever!) sacrifice going to college over anything in the world? Kids beat themselves up over who got the best grades, or who got in to the best college, but in the meantime, we should be living in the moment and focusing on our studies.
My favourite piece of advice in the article would be the paragraph titled “Make a personal connection to your studies.” The reason I like this paragraph so much is because I always try to connect what I’m learning at school to everyday life. Such as; in music one may think about in the future, singing some of those exact songs to their child, or in math working out that really hard algebra question you may or may not ever use… the list could go on. I think that this would be the best advice to give someone as they enter junior high, high school or college because if you don’t connect something to everyday life, you might as well forget it all in general.
The question I have been thinking as I read this article was what type of learner am I really? Although most of us would be honoured to say they’re a deep learner, the deep and horrid truth would probably be that we’re all (besides surface learners) would have to say we’re all a strategic learner because basically, that’s what we’ve been taught all of our life– do whatever is possible to get the best mark, to get in to the best college. But why worry? We should just be figuring out what happens when we get there.
