Midterm Reflection + Revisiting Goals


みなさん、

こんにちは！
はながとてもきれいなきせつですね (this is such a beautiful sentence we learned today in class)。Happy Spring, everybody!

So, anyone else feel like this right after spring break? Because I sure do haha. Even though it's only the first week back from spring break, Princeton really goes full force when getting back into the grind.

As for my midterm, I'd personally rather not talk about it...




 Overall, I was very disappointed with my time management. I spend too much time thinking about the grammar (time to study up on this!), so this causes me to fall behind during the test, and I was unable to complete the essay section.

 In order to do better, let's look at the goals I posted earlier, shall we? I did not go to office hours at all this week. But I know I have a lot of work to do in terms of speaking and presenting because my anxiety causes me to under-perform. I will stick with my goal from now on to go to office hours twice a week and to have a plan going in each time. I have been listening to Japanese music here and there, I will try to start watching anime again for shadow practice (at least I did some during spring break). In addition to studying grammar over the weekends, I will also make flashcards for vocabulary as I'm noticing that I am starting to forget words and phrases from earlier chapters.
 
Let's hope that these goals will make this semester go smoothly! I want to look just like Kagura down here by the end of the school year :).










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