Week 12 November 29,2011

Soo...I came to realize some things some things over the past break. Let me start at the beginning. On November 19, right before Thanksgiving break, there was a UIL meet. I competed in the three events that I wanted to continue with through this year: Number Sense, Science, and Computer Science. I actually did pretty well overall. I got 2nd place in both Computer Science and Science, and I got the best in biology for Science. My one problem was Number Sense. I got 10th place in that. Right before I got the results for anything, Mr. Galvan, our UIL director, walked up to me and asked me if I thought I was spreading myself too thin. I agreed with him, but I was a little hesitant on dropping anything. I realized after I received my results what I needed to do. I'm dropping Number Sense. I joined it really late in my high school career and I just think it would be a bad idea to pursue it any farther. It was a fun thing to study, so I might just continue to study it for fun, but now for UIL, I'm going to focus on just Science and Computer Science. I made it to regionals in both of these events, and I was very close to advancing in both. I made the second highest chemistry score in Science, which almost allowed me to progress to state, and I got 7th place in Computer Science, with answering just 2 more questions right instead of wrong bumping me into the top 3. I just think that if I focused on these two rather than "spreading myself too thin", I'll be able to achieve my goal of making it to state in UIL.

Week 11 Thursday November 17, 2011

I finally did it. I broke 100 on a number sense test. I mean it was just an SAC, and those are easier, but I don't care. This is progress. My two test scores today were 112 and 53. I usually make a really good score and a bad score, but is 53 is considered my bad score, I'm not that saddened. I've been continuously working on number sense for a while, so I'm glad to see when there's progress. Computer Science hasn't been going that badly either. I'm starting to get it, and that makes me feel happy. Science, on the other hand, is right now my worst at progression. I've been trying, but I just can't seem to stay focused with it. Biology has been very interesting, and I've been doing well in that. Chemistry is taking a little bit of a downturn, so I need to fix that. My main problem lies in physics. I just can't seem to remember formulas, and it's sort of bringing down my attitude all together. I've just been really bummed out with how I've been doing, and it's really frustrating me. I'll bring it up though. Mr. Viray said that he might try doing some one on one tutoring with me, and I think I need that, so we'll see how that goes. All in all, I'm seeing improvement, which is a good thing.

Week 11 Wednesday November 16, 2011

My blogging has been more on the not happening side. I'm sorry about that. I've been very stressed out with everything, especially last week, which was the end of the 2nd Six Weeks. Here is a summary of how my progress is going in my UIL Subjects. My science score is really sucking right now. I actually made lower on the district test than I did last year. I feel that I've been really slacking in that department, so I need to start working on that. I'm going to be working a lot more on just studying for that. My number sense scores have been in the 40-90 range, so I need to get that higher. Recently I've just been working on learning the tricks and having them down. It's been working pretty well so far, but we'll see how it goes. My computer science score actually surprised me. I jumped around 60 points higher on a test that I took, and I'm starting to feel confident about that. I feel that I'm the closest to actually making it to state in computer science compared to the other two at this moment in time. There's a meet this weekend in Lubbock that I'm going to. This will be my first test to see how I do against other people besides Andrews kids. It'll be a good test.

Week 10 Tuesday November 8, 2011

JEEZ!!!! I haven't blogged in a long time. I've mainly been working on my college essays in this class for a while, but on Wednesday day of last week I started on Science UIL again, but I completely forgot to blog all of last week. Well here goes everything I have. Mr. Fleming has been freaking riding my butt constantly in Computer Science. It's like the moment I'm finally caught up and everything is fine and dandy, he puts on 20 new worksheets, 12 new labs, and he tells us (Andy and me), that I'm freaking 2 weeks behind!!! Then he gives me a speech about how I'm distracted and I don't get my work done. It's freaking retarded. Not to mention that Andy got suspended from the next UIL meet for "cheating" on a Computer Science test, so goodbye first place pumpkin,=[. Science doesn't really feel that great either. I feel like I'm not learning physics, which is really frustrating me! I also feel very insecure about how I'm doing. Joe is catching up to me and that SHOULD NOT be happening. I need to start getting on the ball in there. In Number Sense, all the freshman are kicking butt and taking names. They've been working on Number Sense since 5th grade, so they know a bunch more than I do, but I'm not backing down! Pretty sure with how I'm growing in that that by around....January I'll be beating them all. Just watch me. That's pretty much how UIL is going up to this point. There's a UIL Meet Saturday November 19 at Tech, so gonna be preparing for that.