Learning is always going to be hard even when you have someone on your back constantly... But self lead learning is a massive pain in the butt!!
I have essays due in months that I have to start now, and research that I have to be doing continuously alongside all of the other reading I have to do.
Uni is hard, some people can't cut it and other strive... To be honest I am just happy to be passing and confident I am going to make it through no matter the struggle!
I don't know how many of you know, but I am dyslexic so I struggle with reading, spelling and getting my thoughts down on paper.
And I have a blog *chuckle*
As a result I was not expected to get as far as I have done, and I'm not going to lie, it is a daily struggle to keep myself motivated and on track. But if I want to be a teacher I have to succeed and complete another two years of uni.... Booooo
My auntie told me on Sunday that she was "proud" of how far I have come considering... Although this doesn't sound like a massive compliment it honestly made my day. My older cousins are A* students with degrees in things like maths and I know it sounds bad but I was always jealous of how easy learning was for them and feeling like the stupid one because I was over the moon with my C in English after the 4th attempt.... But I've come to realise that success is what you want it to be, we make our own aims and work towards them in our own ways.
Success for one person might be getting a 99% on an assignment and others will be happy with anything above 40.
Can you guess which one I am?
My aim for life is to be happy, be able to have a job I love and people that love me. I don't care about money or popularity.
At the end of the day if you have people who love you and you are happy what else matters?
Anyone who is thinking of taking on a challenge no matter if it's a degree, a marathon or even just a spelling test, set yourself the aim to complete what you set out to do, whether that is as the slowest in the race or at 40% (the pass mark for uni assignments).
If you can do better then strive, do the best you can!
A challenge should be a struggle, it should test you and make you think, teach you new things you didn't know before and make you proud when you succeed.
After all a life without challenges would be pretty boring...
Just me,
Em x
