Take today’s class period to reset your focus. Start with a review of the updated instructional website:
You must read every instructional post. Every modification and individualized element for the next three months will be built on your understanding of these lectures and lessons.
If you have questions, you can help yourself and others by leaving comments online. The ability to leave comments may be blocked in school, but you show more initiative by asking those questions at home, anyway.
Tomorrow, we will look more closely at statements of purpose. You should write a statement of purpose for each of these projects. You might start with that instructional post:
You’re really after the habit of using these posts as references and guides. You should return to them continuously.
You can also use today to reset your in-class focus and productivity. Remember that your use of class time will determine your success, especially the success we translate into a grade. GAP Q3A ends on Friday, February 28.
It may help to think of it this way: You must tally up 35–40 minutes of productivity in class every day. You can manage that during the class period. If you don’t use the time in class, however, you must make up all that lost time somehow. You could be given a study hall in 210, a tutor in the Learning Center, required meetings after school, and so on. There’s a post on this sort of motivation:
It’s almost certainly preferable to do the work during class.