In the end of the year fadeaway (something I can’t stand and resolve to get in front of every year) we’re continuing to sharpen up our graduation plans. Today we wrote about the biggest obstacles we see for ourselves and our group. Then we passed papers and proposed solutions.

As always, I wrote about how most humans are wired with a “I’ll turn it on when I need to switch”, which is rarely as easy as it seems.

Some clusters of themes:

1. I won’t really have any obstacles if I work hard.
2. My obstacles are mostly about paperwork or bureaucracy and if I just handle those, I’ll be fine.
3. I need to worry about my grades. For some kids, this emerged from an understanding of the quality of their work; for others, it was about grades as if they had nothing to do with the work.