Hannah Liang, Period 7, 12/23/22

Hannah Liang, Period 7, 12/232022

Modern Mythology 2023

Atomic Habits & Growth

At this current point in time, what specific standards have you set  for yourself? 

During this time, I set mostly academic standards for myself. The standards I set for myself are mainly time management and improving my writing skills. I thought that I could relax in my senior year of high school and that it wouldn’t be as stressful as my junior year. But life hit me in the face for that one. I also have one personal standard, which is being able to cook some food. As of right now, I want to reach my academic standard more since I’m still in school.

How and why did you come to craft these standards? 

I never had good time management in my junior year, which caused me to stay up late finishing my homework for an assignment. I always started homework late when I could have been doing it earlier instead of playing games. This causes me to sleep for only 4–6 hours. I want to improve my time management since the past few months have made me very stressed about college applications along with my school work. I didn’t plan out when I should start college applications, so now I have to do everything with the remaining days I have left. I need to plan how much I should spend on college applications and my schoolwork to leave enough time for me to get to bed before 11 p.m. Writing was never one of my best things. I always had a hard time writing essays, short responses, or even stories. Once I started writing my Common App essay, I had to rewrite it multiple times, but the most frequent problem is that I do a lot of telling and not showing. I needed to show more description or emotion in my writing, which I find hard to do. So I want to change this aspect of my writing so I can engage the reader in my essay or story. I chose cooking as one of my personal standards since I always had my parents cook lunch and dinner for me. I only cook for myself when they have gone outside. However, all I can make is an egg sandwich or get a cup of noodles and call it my lunch. I wouldn't be able to continue living off of their cooking when I start to live on the school campus. I need to be able to cook food for myself so I don’t have to live off of unhealthy food such as ramen or keep eating outside. I can also get creative with how I want to eat if I know how to cook food and make it healthier than what I eat from outside or heatable food.

How do you demonstrate resilience towards achieving these standards?

I haven’t worked on time management yet. I am still doing some of the assignments slowly or getting distracted by my phone. For improvement in my writing, I asked my friends for advice on how I should change my wording to make it more descriptive rather than narrating. I also watch some videos on how to do that, so I won’t rely on my friends that much. For cooking, I would reach out to my mother for advice on how to prepare certain dishes that I like to eat. She would stand on the side and tell me the steps while letting me carry out the cooking process. When we eat the same dish again, she will ask me to cook it and check to see if I remember how to do it.

How do you assess yourself?  What adjustments do you make? How often?

I tried to assess myself every day for time management. I used a schedule of how I will do my homework for that day. However, it isn’t working out since I get distracted very easily. I adjusted how long my breaks were to see if it would cancel out my habit of getting distracted since I gave myself the time to check my phone as a break before I start homework again. I assess my writing skills very often too by asking someone to write my writing every time I am done. I had to make adjustments to my writing when they made comments on how to fix it. For cooking, I get assessed not often at all, around 2-4 times a month. I will go cook the dishes based on what I remembered until my mom decides to stop me and tell me what I did wrong. I would write down what steps I got wrong in a notebook and memorize the steps again.