I think I got at least an 86 on my algebra 2 honors final. While I arrived at 9 am, I was sitting with a friend in the cafeteria (that’s where the desk attendant told us to wait till 9:20) and I was helping her study for geometry finals. I was surprised I could still remember and understand geometry from 10th grade (I’m in 11th grade) and I was able to help her. I think reiki helps a lot because it was like my subconscious mind was helping me focus on the memories and making me finally understand geometry when at first learning it in 10th grade it was hard for me, but I still got an 82 in geometry honors. Since there were some other juniors and seniors coming in late for final exemptions, the desk attendant didn’t bat an eye when my friend Izzy and I signed in. I was exempt from my gym final, so instead of 7:10 regular school time and waking up at 5:45, I woke up at 8:25 and arrived at school at 9 am and the final began at 9:20. I almost ran out of time on the calculator portion of the final because I took 50 minutes on the non-calculator portion, there was one problem where I had to graph a polynomial function with degree of four and four zeroes and describe increasing and decreasing which took a while and I did bad on. On the non-calculator portion, I spent some time on a synthetic division problem because the answers i got weren’t what the multiple choice questions were, so I ended up picking the closest one. With three minutes to go, I quickly solved two more problems, one on finding the polynomial function using finite differences and another problem on graphing a vertical and horizontal transformation of f(x)=sqrt(x). I think I did bad on the graphing part, but i tried to pick the points as best as possible since I was running out of time. The greatest thing is I feel like my subconscious mind is working with my conscious mind to retain more information so I remembered most of the algebraic and geometric formulas I needed to use. I wish my parents would stop being so critical and telling me I have my head in the clouds. I try to live in the moment and if something is my fault, i accept the blame without complaining. I try to look on the positive side of things and expect things to turn wrong, so I’m prepared for them with a positive attitude. Also after doing some slight meditation, I realize that it has helped me realize that my thoughts sometimes do go far ahead of myself and I tend to over-criticize myself and let others define who I am. I have decide to listen to my heart more and go for my goals. My parents are very criticizing and they told me once that I wouldn’t make the gymnastics team because I couldn’t do a handstand, I ignored them and tried out and I made the team. Now I am on the high balance beam doing tuck jumps and having friends. I was only on the team in 10th grade because now I’m busy with my ap and honors classes. My parents think that I don’t apply myself hard in school even though I’ve gotten good grades, they think my interest in spiritual fulfillment is a distraction to my school work, but I feel it gives me comfort and also helps calm and center me in school. If you have any ideas on how to remain calm when parents criticize you or when they yell that you’re not good enough or complain about their life and how stressed they are and how you don’t know how to survive in life, please give me some advice. I would love to hear your ideas and in the meantime, I am working on building a reiki positive shield so I can filter out negativity.