Time

One of the biggest things that I've learned so far in my student teaching process is how valuable TIME is. I meant to include this on my list of things I learned my first week in third grade, but I must have forgotten in the midst of the snow craziness. Anyway, I have learned so much about using time wisely, and specifically, I've realized how much time I have WASTED in my college career.

Example: Today, I got up at 5:30 as usual and went to school. Obviously, I was there all day, and then I had a faculty meeting after school. Once that was over and I got my things together, I had a 40 minute drive home, which put me back here about 5:15. Since I've been home, I've written 4 lesson plans for next week, showered, and I even have extra time to write in my blog before I go to bed at 10! (This is actually really exciting for me.) Point is, over my last few semesters, I could have easily spent days on these lesson plans because I wasted so much time! I'm cringing now thinking about all the times in college when I said I had "so much to do," when in reality, I didn't have that much to do, and I had ALL DAY every day to do it, except for the like 4 hours a day that I was in class. I'm seriously wondering what I did with all of my time. As I've been forced to cram all of my work into this 5-hour window between the time I get home and the time I go to bed, I'm realizing that if I would have used my time more wisely in the past, I could have gotten my work done so much faster, done so much better on my assignments, and ultimately had more time to spend doing whatever else I wanted to do.

I blame facebook. I haven't gotten on facebook at all today, which is probably how I've been so productive. However now I'm watching My Strange Addiction on TLC, which includes a girl who is addicted to eating couch cushions and a girl who is addicted to wearing character costumes, and my productivity is rapidly decreasing.

Have a fabulous night!