Classes:
I’ll be perfectly honest- I don’t remember anything of my first day of school. Yeah, big dawn of my new life and such, but I can’t recall one second of that day. In retrospect, it’s probably because it started at 7:30 in the morning, and I was busy dreading football practice, but hey, who even knows anymore. I’ve tended to have many mixed feelings about school classes. Some classes offered me the chances to discuss and get engaged in topics that I really cared about and loved, while others just bored me and sent me into a notebook to doodle. Very rarely were extreme academic issues occurrences and I almost always got them fixed within a few weeks. Despite that, I’ve been exceedingly paranoid about grades my whole life for whatever reason. I suppose you don’t have much else to do when you spend most of the day stuck inside your own mind. And that’s real issue with an introvert’s relationship to class- whether or not that you particularly get the subject being taught in school, or whether tests and projects come easy to you not, in this introvert’s experience, it’s likely you will suffer from the problems of being contained within your own head and to your own devices for the most part.
Trust me, I know what it’s like. Project presentations can occasionally be difficult when most of the thoughts are in your head instead of stated out, and that can be twice as difficult when you decide to do an intended group project on your lonesome. And I can’t even tell you how many of those academic issues I’ve had were because I was too tied up in my own head to ask for help. It’s an irritating experience, but one that I’m sure many of my fellow Introverts have been forced to go through. So what are our options? Well, two come to mind:
1. Get Really talented at school, really quickly
Something important to know about school is if you do a lot of thinking, you will likely get topics a lot easier. So taking the extra time to study more can help, and getting yourself used to the workload and testing strategies that high school tends to bring can be a huge benefit to those that would rather keep to themselves than work to work with others to achieve academic success. Coming up with a personal system of work would be useful as well, and scheduling out when you do things will save you tons of time throughout your night. But for those not willing to push their organizational skills too far, here’s the next option:
2. Get out of your comfort zone
This is something that everyone, not just introverts, have to try to do from time to time. I would love it if I could prance around in my head all the time (Pokémon and aliens live there, why would I ever want to leave?), but the reality of the situation is that I live with everyone else in, well, reality. That means I have to interact with others, and even when I REALLY don’t want to, ask for help when I don’t quite understand things. For example- I am terrible at math. For all the things I’m good at, I may be the worst person I know at doing math. So what to do? Well, asking my super genius Wayne State engineering student brother is definitely my best option and one I find great enjoyment in abusing, but asking people who happen to be in the school is an equally viable idea. And even when it comes to the point of that, I occasionally have to push myself to get that help. There is nothing worse than feeling like you don’t get something, and the best way to avoid it is to just ask for help. I know that often times it’s preferable to look at what you’ve done and try to figure out the issue yourself, but its so much easier and much more beneficial to just ask for help. If you just do that, and come out of your head for a moment, life will be much, much easier.
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