Too Little Too Late

Hello my fellow humans, how have you been doing? Well I hope your good because it’s time for another weekly blog post. This week I’d like to talk about something that I mentioned in my last post and that’s about taking responsibility for your learning and understanding the consequences that come with the failure to do so. You see as you probably know we’re making a podcast in Humanities this year and right now we’re making our first episode. One thing I’ve realized from all of the projects we’ve done over the years is you never really understand how much work something is until you actually try and do it to the same quality yourself. So when I came time to finally record and edit our podcast episode I foolishly thought I could finish it in a day.

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I think I worked for about five to six hours straight that night and only got about 3 minutes of the whole 15 minute podcast done. I tried to set my alarm so I could wake up around 4 am to keep working on it but I just ended up falling back asleep leaving me to work for 30 minutes in the morning to try and get it done. Again I was stupid and thought I could get it done by that evening forgetting that I had two hours of dance with only 30 minute breaks in between, not enough time to get anything done I stay up for another four hours that night and only got two minutes done. This pattern continued for the next couple of days and left me with a podcast that always seemed just out of reach to finish. I learned a lot about myself from this, I am awful for underestimating the time it takes to finish something leaving me to string along others with my false ideas of when things can be done and letting them all down. But as I said in my last post, with these contracts in place there is no one left to blame but yourself, a lesson I seem to always need to be reminded of.