The Beginning of the End

This past week in ISM was perhaps the most important week of the second semester, and arguably the whole year. This past week we focused on brainstorming for our final products, however, I had a bit of a lead in terms of brainstorming because of my mentor visit earlier in January. Therefore, one of my biggest strengths this past week was my preparation. Because of my experience in ISM last year, I have a general idea of when certain key events occur throughout the year and bearing that in mind, I decided to already have the discussion about my final product with my mentor earlier in the year because that allowed me to now have more time to flesh the idea out and actually develop my final product instead of just hitting the ground running with whatever idea got approved. With that being said, once I receive the green light for my final product I will immediately begin working on it to maximize the project time. However, this past week also exposed a particular weakness of mine. For a while this year, I had taken pride in my time management skills and my ability to juggle all of the workload of ISM with all my other AP classes, however, now that ISM is picking back up again, and soccer season is in full swing, I am feeling a strong sense of pressure and overwhelmingness. While I have not fallen behind yet, I have gotten to a point where I feel like it could go either way. Either I take complete responsibility over what I am about to do or I mentally let senioritis take over. With that being said, I do not think that I will succumb to senioritis and I believe that I will just have to work around the time commitment of soccer, as that will prepare me professionally since many times in the corporate world employees have to work around other commitments.