Learning By H.E.A.R.T.: Happiness in Learning

 After reading this Mindshift article, I noticed how many classes are truly geared towards grades, testing, and memorization. Because of my high school classes, I have been trained to focus on numbers: my class-rank, GPA, and straight A's. I entered college with this mindset and realized how much I worried about these numbers. I let these numbers defined my happiness, and college was the same way (I still catch myself completely changing emotions when I think about the pressures of my GPA). However, I do believe these numbers are very important because I am wanting to go to a very prestigious law school (and their admissions really all goes back to LSAT scores and transcripts), but I do not let these numbers steal my joy.

These articles were very insightful for having happiness while learning, and the project showed that each individual works toward happiness in a different way. These high school students at Rochester High School performed the project very well: each student read Our Town and it drove them to create a service project around their town. In my personal opinion, I believe service to others and selflessly giving time to connect with other people is the best way to be happy in life. This tool can be used in the classroom: connecting with your fellow students will make the classroom more friendly, and having others to collaborate with will definitely help with upcoming exams.

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Happiness in my life comes from making time for the people I care about



Along with my Growth Mindset post for this week, my hard work and self-discipline can be related to this post. Each week I catch myself growing mentally and emotionally exhausted, and sometimes I feel as if my happiness has strayed far away from me due to stress. Building relationships with new friends and strengthening the ones I already have "fills my tank," as my dad would say. The Mindshift article was a great reminder that happiness is just as essential, if not more essential, to learning and enjoying college as GPAs and test scores. Reminding myself of this every day will also keep me on track to fulfill the life I want to live now as well as my future plans.





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  1. UnknownSeptember 21, 2017 at 4:02 PM

    This post is great. I hate how our academic lives and into our careers are defined by superficial numbers that rank each and every one of us. I wish the rest of the world would hold a mindset closer to what you described in this post. One that doesn't worry about the numbers but celebrates happiness individually through whatever means each person chooses.

    Thanks for sharing!

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