How would you tell a student to better manage their skills and time?
“Well, I would say to have a schedule. It’s important to understand how your day is gonna go and when you’ll work on homework or studying for classes or whatever it is, you always know what’s coming next and how much time you can spend on this. So that you don’t end up overloading one certain class. An assignment notebook helps…or just like a paper where you write your assignment on. That’s what I do.”
With experience with tough courses, which would you say is the hardest class?
“I’d say AcaDeca is definitely the most work. Yeah, my hardest to understand classes or the hardest conceptual work is probably AP Calculus and architecture.”
And why are these classes harder?
” Well, like I said earlier AcaDeca just has so much information and work that you need to read and understand. So it is more the sheer volume there. Um, the other two classes just have really complicated topics that you need to have a full understanding of to do well in the class.”
What skill would you say is the greatest you’ve gotten from all of these activities and classes?
“I have gotten pretty good at multitasking. Uh, you know, I’ll have a bunch of different stuff that I need to do on the same day or around the same time. I’ll be able to you know, switch between those, or work out when I need to do what homework assignments to get them all sufficiently completed. It’s just real good.”
How much free time would you say you have in a day and how how do you use it?
“Well, it depends on the homework load for that day. I will have anywhere from no free time at all one day, to a couple hours just depending on, again, how much homework I have. I’ll use it, I’ll always do my crossword, and I love to get that finished. Outside of that just hang out with friends usually.”
What sports do you participate in? What does it look like after sports?
“I swim during the winter and this spring I am doing track. And so that, you know, eats up my time after school. When I get back, I’ll usually shower and have dinner and then start working on homework. And then at that point, I’ll have some afterschool activities like mock trial or play, depending on the time of year. And then once after just a little bit of time hanging out with my friends that night, I’ll usually go to bed.”
What is your experience in extracurricular activities, especially things like nonschool things, like teaching taekwondo?
“Well, on the on the weekends I’ll go to the Jewish Community Center and teach some younger kids martial arts. It’s, you know, a lot of fun, but it’s also really interesting to be on the other end of the student teacher tube, if you will. It’s an interesting perspective to approach learning from, and it helps me understands more if so, what’s happening in class too.”
You teach taekwondo for service hours too, why that instead of a paycheck?
“Well, early on, it, of course, helps me fulfill my service requirement. I’m past that now, but I still just really enjoy helping my taekwondo teacher that introduced me to the class and I, you know, I’m doing it for the love of the game.”
