Right now I am sitting on the mattress in the donner basement locker room. I am crying. They are cutting my dog's eyes out and sewing them up. My mom just told me. I see Marx’s name at the top and am reminded of the discussion that I am going to have tomorrow where my author talks about Marx. I try to recoup. I Wikipedia marxism to get a better idea, think that the man in the second portrait of the page looks sassy and look back to the article, after adding some new tidbits to my fundamental understanding. I always look up surrounding terms because I want to better understand the context and content of the article. I begin reading and circle ‘hegemonic’ and put exclamation points saying “you know this!” because I just looked up the term for …show more content…
I started to do this sophomore year in HUSH but it became a habit last semester when I was taking notes from full books and would do this on the top of the page for Global histories to make sure that I knew what happened. I then box the later part of the paragraph where the main point is introduced. I highlight the question at the end. I make a point to make the main argument stand out because I know that I need to know this to understand the …show more content…
I know that I have to be alone when I do this because I would get way too distracted if I was around people or noises of any sort. I could not have done it in my room because I might get tempted to sleep or change my outfit for no apparent reason, but when the only other prospect is going on a run in negative million degree weather, you bet I’m gonna do my work. This process of rewarding myself, isolating myself to do work, and annotating for summary and argument, demonstrates that I treat myself like someone treats a dog that they are