Week 8 Growth Mindset

Though I haven't been directly trying to maintain the growth mindset as it's been set forth, I think I've done a good job of sticking to the basic ideas of it. I've tried to always do my best this semester and though it's been tough to be motivated as this is my senior year and I'm spending a lot of time working of job apps that I wish I could use to study. I still think I've been doing a pretty good job of trying to go above and beyond with my material when I have the time to do so. I hope that with the rest of the semester I can try maybe a little bit harder and improve my performance in my classes. I'm of the mindset that if I do my best and it's still not good enough, I can accept that I did everything I could to do well with something. It's not ideal but with time constraints, this semester has forced me to be very rigorous in how I schedule and do my work.

(Growth Mindset brain, Pixabay)

Week 8 Reflections

For the most part, I've enjoyed most of the reading this semester. The Ramayana was definitely was favorite reading thus far and that's probably because it felt more like it was a continuous narrative whereas the Mahabharata was more disjointed and oftentimes felt like it was many separate stories even when it did have a continuous story going on. That's not to say it was unpleasant. It was still fun to read, just not as good as the Ramayana in my opinion. I really did like the few times we had riddles though and so I'm considering reading a collection of riddles that was shown to me by Laura for the next reading assignment. I think I've been doing a pretty good job on reading notes so that I haven't really had any problems writing a story post each week.

The writing has been fun in this class. I often am not really sure what I'm going to write about until Wednesday hits and I need to think of something, but it's worked out so far. The two pieces in my portfolio so far are a bit absurd, so I may try to keep that theme going as we move forward in the semester.

I've really enjoyed reading everyone else's different stories this semester quite a bit. It's been a lot of fun to get to see so many different ideas and opinions from my fellow classmates. I've tried to give pretty good feedback that I myself would want - the kind that seeks to not only praise but also to improve the piece being discussed. Overall, I think this has been a fun class and I'm looking forward to the rest of it.

(The golden abode of King Ravana India, wikimedia commons)