This year in digital design and animation we went much further in depth with 3d modeling than we did the first year, which is personally my more favored activity in digital art. Photoshop and video editing may be easier but I often only do them for fun and detailed 2d art takes more skill than I currently have in that area. The school year did not drag on as long as my freshman year did, but it was long enough that I don't remember most of what happened this year. At the beginning of the year I was really disorganized and only had one notebook that I used for all seven periods, though somehow my grades were highest in the first quarter, but that is probably because we don't really do any major assignments that quarter. During the second and third quarters I got organized and focused on my classes which greatly reduced the amount of stress I had those quarters. However, during the fourth quarter I was so focused on avoiding stress that I avoided work and began to go to bed at three in the morning every night, though surprisingly my grades didn't drop until I started trying to fix this habit by going to sleep two hours earlier. I still did all of my work but I didn't focus on any of it and slept through some of my classes, my grades continued to spiral downwards except for this class in which I was quite ahead. It must have been my lack of sleep but the last two assignments caught me off guard and made me realize how far behind I really am and that I may not even be able to be exempt this year. Hopefully I can crunch hard enough to get it all done.
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Somehow it is already nearing the end of the fourth and final quarter, yet it feels like it has only been a few weeks since the start of it. I haven't been doing much thinking this quarter, I've just been going with the flow and hoping I get the same grades as usual which for the most part has worked. I thought I was really ahead in this class because somehow I didn't see the final two assignments when I turned in the first rigging assignment, luckily I saw them the next day so I didn't lose any time working on them but it was still a surprise. Unfortunately I don't think I'll be able to finish them in time because I can't make it to tutoring and as I said I thought I was ahead anyways, but I'll try as hard as possible to get them done. My other classes have been much easier this quarter although I realized the grading system in my math class was not what I thought it was. I was infuriated when I realized homework is practically worth nothing and the only other grades we have are three quizzes I didn't do so well on. In retrospect I should have paid much more attention this quarter because a few of my grades are slipping but at this point there is nothing I can do about them. Besides that though this quarter has gone by even faster than the third quarter did and for the most part has been easy.
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It's hard to believe that we're already halfway through the fourth quarter, especially knowing that EoC testing is coming up which will take away the last few weeks of normal school. Honestly I haven't looked at any of my grades in any class since near the end of the third quarter, but that is because I'm sure I'm passing all of them. My sleeping schedule is now fully back to normal, I start my homework at eleven and go to bed at one in the morning instead of starting at one and sleeping at three. Even though it is only a two hour difference, I sleep two less hours during class each day because of it. We've missed a ton of school days recently as well which has helped me to relax and get back on my normal sleep schedule. On the other hand school assignments have gotten out of hand, though I will still be able to complete them as normal. In this class most of my plans were ruined due to days I had put aside to render my projects and dates I had set for myself to finish each assignment being rescheduled or missed. In my other classes we have a bunch of homework to makeup for the days we missed and I had to take four tests in one day because there was no other day to take them. Overall though the quarter has been going well so far and I have been adapting to the schedule changes.
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The first quarter has been pretty wild with the hurricanes messing up schedules and all, but overall it has been pretty smooth. For the most part I have been staying on track with the due dates in this class, but recently I fell behind. There were a few days around when the hurricanes hit that I came to school having no sleep the night before, which caused me to fall behind in most of my classes. As of now I am all caught up because of tutoring in other classes and working faster in this one. The general workflow this year has changed from last year, we now see just about everything far in advance, even blog posts. However, the time allotted for each assignment is sometimes not enough, which is why I am grateful for the late policy we have. If assignments were a 50 after the first day of being late, like it is in all of my other classes, I'd be failing right now. Compared to last year though I have improved my organization, allowing me to complete my work much faster and stay on top of things. With our current project to make a chess board I am feeling confident in my ability with 3D-modeling, as it is due next week and I am already nearly done. This confidence with digital art has also transferred to outside of class, in which I have been making a lot of art using Paint.net recently. Unfortunately, most of the art I make outside of class is done in under a minute and used to have fun with my friends, meaning it is too unprofessional to put on this portfolio. Next quarter I will focus on making actual digital art outside of class, knowing in advance that I will need art for my portfolio for the next check.
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The fourth quarter has been one of the fastest quarters ever, the third quarter was somewhat confusing, which made it go by faster, but it still feels like the fourth quarter just started. My grades have been fully in control of themselves this quarter, because I don't remember doing any assignments yet I have decent grades in every class. Final tests are coming up though, so I don't want to fail a class by not studying for them. Of course it is a pretty stressful time of the year because final projects are being given to boost or drop grades right before the EoGs (or whatever they're called now). At least fourth quarter was quick and smooth though instead of a rough struggle to make it to the end. Of all the weeks in fourth quarter this one has had the most homework with the strangest one-day break for protest in the middle of it. Several projects were assigned to be due tomorrow, but now that I've gotten around to doing them their due dates seem pretty reasonable. I always take it for granted how much extra time teachers give us to do projects that we just waste anyways. It helps a lot with scheduling though, by now I've finally made a basic schedule for school that I should be able to use for the rest of my years here. Having a schedule makes life so much easier because I know when things are due, which helps me to "balance my time" for them. Of course it sounds simple to make a schedule format that I can use for years, but it actually took some time to do this and I'm glad I did take that time because now life is less stressful. I'm not usually a person to get stressed anyways, but it just feels better knowing that I've done something to reduce that stress I could possibly encounter. The only problem with having a schedule is when I don't write down an assignment into it, which is pretty rare but got me mixed up a few times. I usually work only until my schedule is complete and no more, giving me time to do other things. However I recently forgot to put a few items on my schedule, which I regretted but should be able to get done within a day. Besides having a new schedule though fourth quarter has been basically the same as any other quarter, it just ended much faster. My main goals as of now are to obviously pass the EoCs and to not relax for these last few weeks. If I were to stop working now I would likely still pass, but with only a C in every class, so I'll just wait until the last day of school and hope for the best.
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Quarter 3 has been one of the quickest and wildest quarters so far of my time at D.S.A, which consists only of three quarters of ninth grade anyways. Even then, the third quarter had an extremely rough start filled with snow days and confusion, so much confusion that I'm not even sure exactly when quarter three started. Many of my assignments were missing or late around that time and I wasn't getting as much sleep as usual, I thought I was going to start failing. Luckily for me though, not long after the snow days things started to even out and my grades started to go back to normal for most of my classes. However, some of my early third quarter grades left scars that can still be seen on this coming report card. At least it is over now and I only have one more quarter of ninth grade, which I plan to go smoothly so that I won't have to stress about failure. I've heard many people say that third quarter is usually when students get their lowest grades, so hopefully I can shoot for getting all "A"'s in fourth quarter. I've always been an all "A" kid, but once I saw my first "B" on the quarter one report card I gave up on trying to keep that title. That's not to say I gave up on my work though, I still worked just as hard but at that time I realized that high school is not middle school. The only reason I've been an all "A" kid is because middle school was way too easy, as long as you turned in work you got a 100. Now in high school though teachers do this new thing called grading, which means I have to actually work on what I turn in. Of course this hasn't been much of a problem for me, I've always worked on what I was turning in even though I knew I'd pass regardless, now my work is just critiqued and often reasonably graded. Apart from grades I have also met a few new people and now talk to at least 4 times the number of people I talked to in quarter one. This may have contributed to why the third quarter went by so fast, I stopped paying attention to when school was going to end and started paying attention to the people I talk to. It was only when there were three weeks left of third quarter when I realized report cards were going to be coming home soon. Ever since that day I have been checking my grades on PowerSchool daily to make sure my report card looks good. I was worried about my grade in this class, which has either been a high "B" or low "A" so far, but when I checked three weeks ago it was and average "B". Of course all of my worries went away when I completely blew that test out of the water today just as you asked us to do, I instantly checked PowerSchool when I got on the bus to see the nice 92 under quarter three. That leaves math as the only class I don't have an "A" in, and that is probably because I will end up with a "C" or lower in that class. I have mostly understood what we have been learning, but early in the quarter I completely failed one assignment, got a 41 on a unit test, and got a 71 on a separate large test. All three of those low grades worked together to bring my grade down to an 85, that is until I most likely just failed the test we took today, so my grade will be even lower. The third quarter has been one of the most stressful quarters so far with deadlines, projects, and quizzes constantly approaching for all of my classes, but now it is finally over. In the fourth quarter I hope to have steady grades from start to finish and that I pass the super stressful end of course tests.
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AuthorMy name is Andrew Prichard and the this is my first digital arts class, I look forward to a good year with lots of hard work. Archives
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