Well, today is the last day of this Summer camp at the University of Georgetown. I have made memories that i will treasure as i keep going throughout my high school year, and I hope to see many of my friends again some day. i have learned many things in the economics class, my SAT preparation class and even from the book Mindset. I really kept in mind all the things i learned from this book and feel I applied them to my classes at Georgetown. as i took the sat exams i always had in mind that the test does not measure how smart i am but a skill that i had. Nevertheless i always did my best. i learned from my first SAT scores. My teacher was not satisfied from them and gave me criticisms on what i could do next to improve. i didn’t take any of the criticism as aggressive or wrong; i used it as feedback in order to get a higher score on the next test.
“For the world of the fixed mindset, there is no way to become an Eagle”. I found this quote to be very important in the book Mindset. I found it in the section “A test score is forever”. This quote explains that people with fixed mindsets will insinuate that a simple test is measuring how smart they are. When testing a fifth grade class, they told the students, “This test measures an important school ability”. After that they asked the kids if they thought the test measured how smart they were. The students with a fixed mindset said that their intelligence was in fact being tested. Other children with a growth mindset knew that it didn’t test their intelligence. One of them even affirmed that no test in the world can truly measure how smart we are. This happens in real life too and has certainly happened to me, especially around that same age. I remember seeing a picture about testing. You can’t test different types of animals on how skilled they are at climbing a tree. Clearly some will be great at it since they are testing a skill and some will fail. But those who did fail might have some other abilities that the given test is not looking at. In my personal experience, this happened to me when I took a science exam. I did poorly in it, but after that class I had a math exam which I did really well on. The exams did not test how smart I am; they were just testing some skills about me.
The first week of the summer camp is over, and now I have made some new friends from all over the world! However, aside from this good news, I have some bad. I have not kept up with my habit. When we went out as a group, we never made it back before 10:30, making it clearly imposible to achieve my habit. I have noticed that in my SAT preparation class they give me homework everyday. Not doing this homework could mean an e-mail sent to my parents about my behaviour. I have decided to change my getting 8 hours of sleep habit to finishing all my homework for the next class of SAT. The reason why this is important is because this homework will help me get better at the SAT, and I'm hoping it will make me more responsible.
Today is my second day of class in Georgetown summer camp! I have two academic classes: "American Economics and Business” and SAT preparation class. Monday was my first class and the economics class seemed very interesting especially because our teacher is very into this subject and seemed very passionate about teaching this course. SAT preparation wasn’t that bad either. I arrived to Georgetown University on Friday 5th For the last three days it has been very hard to keep up with my habit (going to bed by 10pm in order to get at least 8 hours of sleep a night). I usually arrive at my room around 9:30pm. Room time is at 12 am, which means that people are still walking around, entering and exiting the rooms, making it hard to get to sleep early. However, I did manage to kick out my friends in time to sleep before 10.
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