In hindsight and to your relief, I
realized that many of the terrible rumors about APELC are inherently not true.
Yes, the class may be hard, challenging, and even annoying at times, but the
class will never be impossible as long as you show your effort. The Plato
readings and unit exams you will confront are going to challenge your
analytical minds, but you will also find so satisfying sense of success once
you began to understand the Plato readings and improve in your unit exams. The
difficulty of the class will always be the same, but I am convinced that you
will find the class increasingly easier as the year goes on. Trust in your
instructors because they are skilled and are capable of stretching you to a new
level of maturity and insight. The assignments may be few at times know that
they serve a bigger purpose collectively, so always remember to put effort into
whatever you do for this class.
At the very beginning of class, Mr. Yost
told us that “it’s just school”. The statement is not to degrade the importance
of trying in school but to give us a bigger picture of our life. School is
important, but your life and my life do not fetter themselves to our level of
successes in school or in APELC. The value of our lives lies within us; I
remember the first semester of APELC really gave me a tough time, especially on
the unit exam, but all the stress I felt was but a insignificant point in my
past now. All the worries I had about my grades were so trivial. The value of
APELC is the knowledge it offers, and the grade, if you work, will follow.
No comments:
Post a Comment