After talking to my dad more about this whole school thing, I have realized that the stress of school is really a good preparation for stress in life and learning how to manage my time. That combined with the fact that I was able to get a lot of work done today has definitely made me feel better about going to school. But I still am holding to my theory that homework can be skipped or only partially done if school is beginning to take a toll on my mental, physical or social health. It is just not worth it to work myself until my brain is fried and my relationships are suffering and I am so tired that I can't learn anything anyways. My plan is to make myself spend a minimum of one hour on homework every night so that even if I don't have that much immediate work, I can be working ahead on other stuff so that it doesn't all get bunched together. I am also setting a maximum for 2 hours of homework in one night unless I really have to do something like a paper but I will not let myself do over 2 hours of homework more than once in a week. Hopefully these boundaries can really help me learn to manage my time. Also I plan on decreasing my after school activities so that will free up more time too.

    In case you all haven't noticed, I use this blog a lot to just vent. Some facts about me are that I am very melodramatic and I am an outward processor so I just like to say a lot about everything. Part of that everything is bad stuff or frustrating stuff or annoying stuff. I use this blog to just talk about that stuff in the way that I think about it. I'm sorry if that is not the most encouraging thing to read but this blog is mainly for me to express so you may see some posts that don't necessarily encourage you. Maybe I should start tagging those types of posts "venting" so you can know to avoid them but I am still going to write posts about stuff that I am mad about. Sorry ahead of time and if you ever think I am complaining too much or something, feel free not to read.  Maybe I will start an encouragement blog to offset my whining but for now, it is the way it is.