Assignment 6- Mary Huffman- Mr. Behler might be proud

AP Seminar was by no means a joy for me. You can look at the time and date of this submission and understand that I've made a career of procrastination, a character flaw that has not yet been my demise. However, it's certainly come close to ruining me many times. In its own way, AP Seminar my sophomore year was a unique class in the positive sense. But in its own way, that class was torturous. I hated sitting down at a computer for an hour every day, pretending to research when I was really trying to avoid the dread of a looming, weeks-long project, and disguising it all by laughing with my friends who all employed the same strategy.
Our group presentations, however, were much more enjoyable, to say the least. Throughout both team projects, I'd like to think my comrades and I were just that- a gaggle of students who created a small community, all while trying to appease College Board's infinitely powerful rubrics. When the class was advised to pick a group for the final project based on interests, I instead chose to work with two friends I'd made that year. There was admittedly some drama when our ideas didn't totally align, but skillful manipulation of words settled the situation. Historically, I have not allowed myself to really partake in things outside of factual and logical learning. I'm not someone who particularly excels in math, but I always thought I could maintain my "smart" label if I focused on only that subject. I was convinced I couldn't be creative or artistic, an idea which I ashamedly still hold onto. (This rant has a purpose, I'm sure.)
My presentation group, if you'll remember back that far, decided to research fast fashion and its impacts on the natural world. Even now I'm having flashbacks to Mr. Behler's class. It was honestly a bit uncomfortable for me to create a project on the fashion industry, as I had minimal knowledge of the topic and even less faith that we could make a professional-sounding argument about it. But what was that in Infinite Campus?- a 96% grade on the presentation I didn't think we could make work! I learned a cliched lesson from this tenth grade project: if you set your mind to something, you'll succeed. Or however that saying goes.