Week 13: Growth Mindset

Finals week is coming. It is going to so stressful. Usually, during finals week, I get stressed really easily and end up not able to study. I have a slight exam anxiety, which makes it even worse. So for this finals week, I am planning on trying a different approach. I am going to start studying for finals this week and hopefully try to finish all the materials by the end of this week, so I won’t have to stress much. One main thing that I want to do is get enough sleep. I think what makes me do poor on exams is lack of sleep and my test anxiety. 

Test

Week 13: Growth Mindset

For this week’s growth Mindset, I am planning on trying to get ahead in my evolution and molecular biology class. By the end of week thirteen, I will have enough points to make an A in Epics of India class. SO my goal is to also get ahead in other classes, so I won’t have to stress out during dead week and finals week. So my plan first is to finish all the assignment as much as I can in all classes by the end of this week. This way, I will have more room for studying, instead of focusing on completing assignments. So a big chunk of my studies will be over. 

Study ahead

Week 12: Growth mindset

I am so close to my goal of finishing this class early. I have been trying to sleep on time and wake up on time, it have been hard to do that. However, I kept up with the schedule almost every day. This week’s challenge is get ahead in my molecular class. 

Week 11, Growth Mind Set

I have been sleeping on time, but waking up late. I think I got used to sleeping a lot now. Maybe it is because I have been dancing a lot and my body needs more rest. I have been up to date with this class and is catching up with other class too. So the challenge for this week is to perfect dance so our group can perform a well-coordinated dance at the Diwali event.  

Dance

Week 10, Growth Mind Set

For my growth mindset challenge for this week, I am planning on finishing up my as much as I can for this class, so I wont be having to worry about it during dead week or finals week. I have to finish up to week 12-13 works to be done with this class. I am so glad that we are able to finish up works for this class as early as possible.  I am going to use this weekend to at least finish up week 11 and the weekdays to finish up week 12. I think main thing I have to focus is do all the extra credit and not to miss any assignments.  Few things I can’t finish up early is the blog commenting and project feed back. So I might end up starting week 14 reading Diaries, so I don’t have to wait on doing project feed back. One other thing I am planning on doing is to write 2-3 stories for storybook. This way I will be done with the entire storybook. 

me trying to get work done early

Week 9: Growth Mind Set

I have been doing better on sleeping on time. However, I had so much more load of work right now because Diwali Night is coming up and I have to choreograph a dance and perform in two dances. It is so much fun, however, I have to find a balance between studies and dance. That is going to be my challenge for this week. 

dANCE

Week 8: Growth Mind Set

For this week's growth mind set challenge, I decided to do something different. I am still going to keep up with my wake up early schedule. However , it is very hard to wake up early because I am having to stay up late to finish my home works and other commitments. So I have decided to finish my works ahead of time, so I wont be having to worry about dead line and not sleep well.

Wake up early, and get things done

Week 7, Growth Mindset

For the last couple of days, I have been waking up early and sleeping very late. It has been helping me to catch up with the loads of home works I have. However, I am starting to feel sleep deprived. My eyes hurt from lack of sleep and I am feeling tired all the time. Since I caught up with a lot of important school works, I can catch up on sleeping. What I am planning on doing is get up early in the morning by 6 and go to sleep by 10. Hopefully by doing this I will still have time left to finish up my works. So there is a slight progress in my challenge, however I just have to be more efficient about it. 

Time is precious!

Week 4: Growth Mindset

So far, waking up early in the morning been a total fail. My life took on a totally different turn. So many unexpected and unwelcomed struggles and issues popped up and I completely lost control of my life. When I read about growth mindset, what I learned was that progress will not occur in one day, it takes time. I am going to get my life back in check, but I realize it will be slow process. First, I am going to catch up with my school work, because I am behind on almost all of my classes. Then, I am going to try to finish my assignments and other school work early. This will give me room to deal with issues that I have to face to now. I will also have to find room to fit in my MCAT studies. I am going to try to wake up at six am. I don’t know how effective that will be. I might not be able to wake up every day at six; however I am going to try.

Getting Life Back Together

Week 2: Growth Mindset

I find myself running out of time. In the morning, I am in a rush to make it to Llyod Nobel bus stop on time, get to class on time, finish my reading to on time, and turn my homework in time. Time seems like my enemy. This battle of Time vs. Anu been going on for a long time. Time tends to win most of the time. I think it’s time for Anu to win against time. Sleeping in is love of my life. However it is the weakness that always makes me loose to Time. I am planning on taking on the challenge to wake up at 6 o clock and finish up my classwork by eight o clock every day from today onward. 

New Beginnings; Sun Rise

Week 1: Growth Mindset

I liked the idea of growth mind set. However, I feel like it is too good to be true. When I was growing up, in my school system if you got anything beyond a C, it is considered as failing. If you fail one class instead of re –taking that one subject, you have to repeat the same grade. So many children was held back several grades because of this system. A common pattern one can notice is that, these kids kept failing and even when they passed, they did not do well in class. Most of the time these students also get in trouble for talking or being distracted in class. One time, in 6^th grade one of our teacher called on one of my friend who kept failing classes, unlike other teacher who scolded her for her under achievement, she praised her efforts and told her that she will expect to see more effort on the next quiz. She didn’t even mention grade like other teachers. On the next quiz she received a ninety percent. The same teacher called her in again and told her that she was very pleased with her. She ended up scoring the highest for that subject on the next exam in our class.  She started improving so much. When she reached 8^th grade, she started doing so much better and at least receive eighty percent in all the subjects.  This one teacher made a lot of difference in her life by praising her efforts and not putting so much pressure on grades. However, unless we have people like this teacher, growth mind set idea will just remain an idea. I have never heard about Carol Dweck before this video. When she started talking about it, I realized what our teacher did was praising the effort and not focusing on the grade as much as other teachers have done. The same teacher was also a positive influence in my life. I am planning on using this growth mind set beyond class room. I am going try to use it my personal relationships and my work. 

Growth mindset

I really liked this picture because after I came to united states, everything was easy for me, I stopped trying and when I started taking harder classes, I kept my pattern of not trying, which lead to a downfall. Instead of making things easy, students need to be taught how to work hard.