Most valuable concept: Kacey Incerpi

The biggest thing that I have improved on in myself this year, and the most valuable concept I have come to understand, is time management. Time management is the reason I was scared of college in the first place. So much to do in such little time used to freak me out. Now I can conquer any assignment if I plan it well from the beginning. The first Project we had that helped me with time management was the portfolio project. Writing about yourself isn’t easy, especially writing as much as we had to write. This project taught me to have order in my thinking and organization in writing. It’s very difficult to organize a story about yourself because it will always make sense to you. Fortunately I was able to find enough proof readers to make my paper great. Reading the books “Night” and “Kaffir Boy” also really helped me learn time management. When I found out that I would be on vacation when we picked up the “Night”, I got it early and read to whole thing while I was there. I got ahead in class, and was able to enjoy my vacation way more once I got that out of the way. Kaffir Boy was a bit different. I had to learn to make enough time to read, as well as time to do my other work in the class. I can truthfully say a read that book cover to cover(can only say that about very few books read in high school). Obviously, the senior project helped me the most when in came to managing my time. I think Mr. Smith and Mr. Stewart did an excellent job giving us reachable deadlines that if we kept up with, you were totally on top of things. When I looked at that project as a whole, it seemed impossible. But I learned to break everything down. First, ask questions about a topic. Second, research and find answers to those questions. Upon your research you will find information you didn’t mean to find which will lead to more questions, thus leading to more research. Once you start getting a lot of information, you can split the info into categories; and from there, you can start to make an outline of how you can organize your paper. once you have a solid outline and research… well shit, the paper writes itself. Seems pretty easy when you think of it like that huh? Well I don’t know about the rest of the class, but I’m stoked for my first research paper in college