Metacognition: Organizing My Room

          On a beautiful, sunny Sunday, I spent exactly fifty-three minutes re-organizing my room. I threw away unneeded papers, put clothes back into my closet, cleared the desk space of random objects, and put everything laying around back into its designated space.
          Before actually starting this project, I felt super lazy and not motivated at all because it's a lot of work re-organizing my bedroom and I just didn't feel like doing it. During the process though, I got more motivated and I didn't feel lazy anymore and I was on a roll putting things back where they belonged and being able to see my actual desk and floor made me feel good. After organizing my entire room, I felt proud of myself for accomplishing such a big task all by myself.
          This project made my mind feel more organized and peaceful. I wasn't worrying about the mess and all the random objects cluttered around my room. My thoughts were just more relaxed I guess and I didn't feel as stressed as before.
          I now know that I have too many clothes, I keep papers that I don't really need, I own a bunch of random things that pop out of no where and that I should really just put things back where they came from after I use them because that would be easier than re-organizing my room every week. I also realized that I have a lot more storage space than I thought I had.
          Nothing really surprises me about my thinking anymore. I mean I always think about things ahead of time, like what outfits I'm going to where that week or projects and homework I need to do. If something needs to be done within a certain amount of time, then it's always on my mind until I get it done.

iMedia: Stand Up To Cancer

    The video on the left is of Taylor Swift singing her song called Ronan. She wrote this song for a little four year old boy who died of cancer earlier this year. It's quite an emotional song and the lyrics are so heartfelt. 

         She performed this song on the televised event Stand Up to Cancer. This matters because it is so important for people to support this event. It's a great cause and it really does help those people who have cancer. I know that hundreds of people die every day because of cancer and not many of them get media attention like Ronan did, but by watching the event and donating any amount of money, you can help someone out there. 

        This matters to me because even though I have never had a family member die of cancer, my heart goes out to those families who have; especially those who've lost kids to it because they still had their whole lives ahead of them. I really wish that I could do way more than just donate money and advertise and tell people about this because I really want to help people who live with cancer, who fight for their lives everyday.

        It should matter to others because no one can do something huge and life changing by themselves, but if a group of people get together and try to make a change, then something significant will happen; it may sound cliche, but the more people that stand up to cancer, the more lives will be saved.
        There are so many people out their fighting for their lives because they've been given a certain amount of time to live, while others go through everyday without a second thought about when their final day will come. People should donate to charities for cancer so everyone can get a chance to live their lives for as long as possible.

Best of Week: Aesthetics

       When Mr. Allen wrote the word Aesthetics on the board in class on Monday, I had no idea what that word meant to me. The definition: the structure and rules of appreciating beauty. As I stared at the words written on the board, I realized that I never thought that there were rules about appreciating beauty. And that I never knew about this wonderful word. I was enlightened.
       This made me think about how I have gone through seventeen years of my life without knowing such a thing as aesthetics. Maybe the word has come up before, somewhere in these seventeen years, but I don't remember ever using it or working with it. It makes me think about how there could be any rules to appreciating beauty? I always thought that one could find beauty in whatever they found beauty in, and that was it. It makes me wonder what the rules are.
       Aesthetics hasn't really connected to my knowledge until we went through Sophie's World and picked out quotes and phrases that- I guess- represented the rules of appreciating beauty. So, because I have never heard of this word until now, that is the only thing that I can connect to my knowledge.
       Once again, aesthetics doesn't really connect to me beliefs because I believe that there aren't any rules to appreciating beauty.
       I am really glad that I've learned this word because now I can see the books I read, the paintings I look at, the music I listen to and everything else I happen to stumble upon in my life, in a different, more artistic way. Aesthetics has opened my eyes to the world around me.