MPX humanities letter to the past blog

Dear kai,
 Starting 9th grade will be a turning point in your life. It's when school starts to matter. If I could give you one piece of advice, it would be to actually start trying and caring. Because this has probably been the worst grades I have ever gotten in my life. For some reason I honestly just stopped caring about my grades and stopped trying to get good grades altogether. Even if school ruins your life and takes time away from things that really matter to you and your dreams, still do it. If it makes your parents happy And not fighting all of the time like they are for me, your future self, do it. Honestly all that school has ever done for me is make me more antisocial and depressed. It will be the same for you. But, even if it is, still stick with it. And also remember if everyone laughs and mocks your dreams never let them prove themselves right. Oh and another piece of advice is to not take Japanese. That class, and the teacher are horrible. Finally, just turn in everything on time. I have literally turned in twice as many things late than on time. Even this paper is a couple days late, and I probably won't get credit for it.

As I already stated before, the main things to do in this upcoming year are not to procrastinate, and to turn in everything on time. As long as you do that, you'll be fine. The trick to both of these is time management. As long as you manage your time well, and keep a strict, well thought out schedule, you'll be getting all A's. However, if you slip up, you have to make sure you get right back on schedule as soon as possible. One of the things I greatly struggled on this past year was getting behind, hence turning things in late. I was out sick a lot, so I would always miss a lot of school, which piled up the homework and made school much more stressful then it had to be. You may still miss school a lot, but just remember that you have get the homework you missed done as fast as possible, or you'll be caught in a never ending circle of catching up.

Since I have only been talking about bad things, let's move on to what you should be looking forward to. One of the funniest things you will do in MPX is the cooking, and growing. KCC is literally one of the funnest places you will probably ever get to cook at. There are big flat screen TVs everywhere to watch what the instructor is doing, there are multiple sections for each of the teams to cook in, and the best thing of all was that you got to eat what you made. Being able to literally taste the fruits of you labor was a good experience, especially because I have always liked to cook, but never had the chance to work in an environment like that before. Not only was the cooking really fun, but the actual making of the hydroponics system, and the growing of the plants was awesome too. I had never really even known about the hydroponics systems at all or even heard about growing plants in just water. Until MPX, that is. Being able to have full control over what we were building and what plants we would grow was awesome. I think the best part was actually watching the plants grow. The work you put into the hydroponics system directly affected the plants life, growth, and output.