Final WISE class.... What!?!? Well don't know where the time went. Mr. Reiff gave us one more journal prompt..what would you recommend to another WISE student? What advice, knowledge, and insight would you give them?
The first thing that I would recommend to WISE students is to find a project that you are passionate about or genuinely interested in. If you choose a project "cause it sounded cool" then chances are you are going to get bored of it and find it really hard to get the motivation to keep going. I love dance and this project means something to me which is why it is not torture for me to do it. If you don't love your project, you won't do it. I would also tell them that the first half of the year is hard. It's a lot of work, a whole year of a typical English class in a single semester. Don't take WISE because you want to get out of a normal English class because, sorry, there is no way to escape it. Also, do not take WISE if you think it is an easy way to get your English credit. Second semester is even harder than the first, even kids in AP Lit and Lang comment on how much work we have!
But I would also tell those future WISE students that this class is the single best course I have ever taken at IHS. Yes there is a lot of commitment and time that you have to put into it, but you get just as much if not more out of it. You get to learn so much about yourself, interact with people you would normally not, and look at things in a completely new perspective. It may sound cheesy when I say that, but it is 100% true. My senior year would have been completely different if it weren't for this class and this project. WISE is a challenging class, but the most rewarding.
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