Retrospect and Prospect

With the arrival of 2015, I have already been here in Cheshire America for about four months. In this first semester, I tried to become a person that I wanted to be at the beginning.  Some of my goals have been completed, but some still make me feel pity. At this every special time, I want to make a conclusion for my extraordinary 2014 in order to meet with the new life.

One of the most important things for a student is study. I remember how I told myself to keep the GPA at the very first beginning. Keeping the average score is not easy. I studied in china for ten years, and only the finals would be recorded into students’ files. Therefore, I was facing a difference between study patterns. In order to follow the every step in classes, I wrote down all the points that were important, or have been repeated by teachers. I needed to make sure I understand the whole chapter especially in Math and Chemistry, because all the knowledge in those subjects are on the same line. Problems would only get bigger and bigger like snowball if you don’t solve them. I think I did pretty well on this. Next semester, I need to work on History more, because History requires high ability of reading and critical thinking. As a student who use English as the second language, I have no advantage on those parts. It means I have to spend more time on reading and analyse now.

Reading was also one of the goals I have set from September. However, I feel sorry of keeping pushing it back on my to-do list those months. Reading might not be mandatory as the daily homework, but it’s influence is of extreme importance in other subjects in both high school and college. My reading speed needs to be improved by a large amount of articles and books. Sometimes when I read my history homework, I could easily be distracted by the noise or other people. It greatly slowed down my speed, and ruined the integrity of reading. Moreover, this situation usually cost me double time to find the main sentence and clear structure. Therefore, I decide to read for at least twenty minutes before sleeping , and focus more on the famous fictions and poetry.

Last, I am glad that I finally started moving on my enormous choice about future. I hesitated about my college major between economics and architecture. Now, I decided to make it easier, and focus on the road under my feet first. I plan to choose ib economics next year, and yesterday I just submitted my form of applying independent art class. I have always wanted to be a more decisively person. However, I gradually found out that if you can not decide on something important, just go straight on your old way, and wait for time to show what is the best for you.

Time passes as an arrow. I not only improved myself, but also became more independent and mature. Nonetheless, I would never be perfect; my world always has some mysterious places for me to find. In the next days, I wish I can keep fighting, and never give up.