Over the weekend I've spent an approximate of 7 hours working on my POL for Wednesday and I still havn't finished. I had everything planned out and I honestly wasn't expecting to for it to take so long. But it has. And I can only pin-point it on one thing: Keynote. As a life-long Windows user, I have never used Keynote before in my life. However, this time I did. It has been a curse but also a joy. I was scared to try it out, especially since so many of my peers create such powerful presentations with this program. Although I didn't find it easy to use, I couldn't believe that I had been missing out on something so fun to experiment with. PowerPoint might be good, but Keynote is better. Change. Why is this word so scary to us? Why is it that we like being stuck with the conventional? These are things that I've asked myself this past semester; something I'm really starting to think of now, especially since I've realized that change means progress while the conventional means regression. I recently came across this quote "Don't be afraid of change. You might lose something good, but you'll gain something better." This is true many times, and in some cases, when doing something as simple as trying Keynote rather than using the standard PowerPoint, does not mean you lose the good one and only keep the great; it means you gain another which can become such a blessing. On the other hand, as I mention more than I should, I switched into the IA after doing a year of the IB. Yes, I lost some good things and I miss some excellent teachers that I can't have anymore, but as a whole, I went from good to GREAT. I "lost" something good, a traditional, world-renown education, but ended up somewhere great, somewhere where I truly value the education I'm getting and where I question in a good way, not the typical "when am I ever going to use this" type of way. Again, I was worried about this change. I didn't know if I was going to adapt or if my peers would truly accept me in to the niche they had so carefully built over the past year. Essentially, change is the only way to try new things out and progress. If we don't embrace change, or "pivot", then we don't know what we're missing. And we might never know...
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