Reading Reaction #4: The War Within

A time when I walked alone, and suddenly felt the beauty of the place was when, I was in the back of my brothers yard and I was walking on a cement, paved, path, that my family and I had laid down to walk on. It leads to a playground made for the children to play on, then back to either the BBQ area, or to the bridge over a small pond that led to the back door. While walking on it, I felt the beauty of the place when admiring the job that we did: converting a reddish brown, rock filled, and dried up wasteland into a fresh flowered and inviting yard. The feeling gave me a relief of disbelief being overwhelmed with the protruding colors of the new lively nature surrounding me.

What is the best way to study for finals?

For me, the best way to study is to concentrate on studying and make sure I have everything memorized. But, before I even start Go over every single thing that I have written down on paper, even if it's the same things written down over, and over and over again. It is still helpful, the reason for me doing so, is because it helps me remember those information even better, and trust myself that it's the right thing to do. See, sometimes when notes are written over and over again, it's more than likely that, that's important information. Even though the final might not include a question on those notes, it's still useful because it'll help remind me of another question that has something related with it. Sometimes, after studying, I go over what I've studied by giving myself read out loud questions and try to see if I can remember the correct answer. If I don't succeed then, I go over it again until I do, which does not take a lot of time at all. Say and repeat the answer as several time as possible until I am confident to myself that I have that answer jotted down and I don't have any second thoughts, for when I do, I always assume that I have forgotten it. Also, to begin with, I should always pay attention to my instructor and the hints and expectations he tells me. The areas he says that it will be on will be up to me to decide if I should believe him or not depending on how his personality has been from the first day class started all the way to when the final begins. To know a person is to learn from him/her, so cease the moment and don't forget the things that are to be expected on the final. But, the best thing is to relax and know that I got the answers to passing the final. It's not a bad thing to feel like I'm unsure, the best thing is to use that opportunity to study even more, building my confidence to a level where I know I'll be satisfied with the answers I put down. On the day that I take the final, if I go blink, I just think back to all the studying that I have done and soon all the answers will be coming back. So don't stress over with the thought that final is coming up and don't say I don't know what to do because excuses only distract myself from doing well on the test.