As I've recently chosen to pursue a career in writing, I've been making goals to prevent the drying up of my creative juices. One of these goals is to have a new blog post published by the end of the day every Sunday. Thusly, this is the beginning of what will hopefully be a long chain of weekly blog posts.
School started for the fall a few weeks ago, and I'm very glad to be back in the swing of things. After quitting my job in March, I had gone about five months without any sort of work or school. Call me crazy, but not only do I welcome the increased workload I'm also looking forward to something that most college students run from: Tests.
I don't need to tell you that tests aren't any regular assignment. They mark the progress we're making in our studies, and without them I'm certain education would be quite useless. But where most students see tests as an obstacle that's thrown in the way every few weeks, I've chosen to look at them from a different perspective.
Tests are my way of congratulating myself for a job well done. If I take the time to do all the assigned reading and homework, tests are usually a breeze. When I get a test back I get a feeling of well-deserved accomplishment seeing a high score at the top of the page. If I hadn't taken the time to study my the notes I took and read through my overpriced textbooks, I wouldn't have gotten that high score. Therefore, I don't see tests as an obstacle but as the moment where all my work pays off in the form of a good grade.
Naturally, this can be applied to all tests in life. Instead of seeing life's trials as something you have to get past before you can move on, look at them as a chance to show what you've been preparing for all this time. All of us have it in us to get past anything that's thrown at us, and when things get hard that's when it's time to show how well we've prepared.
