Aanshi Shah Week #11 - Health

             Right now, I’m sick, and despite having a full day “off” from school, I’ve been able to do nothing but sleep. When I started the day, I told myself I would get everything done. This meant finishing my POAS, doing all my essays for summer programs, doing SAT practice, and generally finishing all my pending work. In retrospect, the fact that I woke up at 11 A.M, only to blow my nose, should have foreshadowed my utter lack of productivity.

 At around 1, after I ate my breakfast (lunch), I tried to do my POAS. I opened the doc, and tried writing, and what came out sounded like my younger sister stole my computer. Try as I might, I literally couldn’t come up with anything that didn’t sound like a third grader wrote it. I spent more time blankly staring at the document - my nose itchy and tingly, and chills wracking my body - than actually working. 

Finally, when my mom came in to check on me, she told me to give up trying to work, so I did, and I slept for another four hours. I’m not even that sick right now, my fever’s on and off and only goes up to 100 degrees, but my brain still doesn’t work. Being sick today reminded me that my physical health impacts just about everything in life, and keeping myself healthy comes first. In our lives, as students who are perpetually busy, it’s easy to forget that our general well-being is what allows us to even entertain the possibility of our goals, like going to a good college, in the first place. If you need even more proof that sometimes, it’s alright to rest a little and you shouldn’t feel guilty, I almost wrote that I woke up at 11 P.M. in the first paragraph instead of A.M.




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  1. Michelle GeorgeFebruary 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM

    Hi Aanshi! This year definitely made me realize the importance of physical health on anything that I do. Especially during the days when I only get two to three hours of sleep from doing all the homework from my classes, I realize how my brain starts to slow down, which can often how I take tests later in the day. I agree with you that it is definitely important to take rest and to sleep as much as you can. Sleep is a natural remedy that maintains our body's immunity, helps with memory power, and it is when the body can repair its tissues and muscles. I also agree that with the intense workload that each student has, sleep is the almost an afterthought rather than a priority, which is a mindset that should be changed so that work can flow easier, students can answer tests faster, and there would be lower risks of heart diseases with more sleep.

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  2. Anthony LiuFebruary 19, 2025 at 9:38 PM

    Hi Aanshi! I loved your style of writing. Your tone makes the blog super engaging. I can definitely relate to you to having big goals for when I wakeup the next morning. But then, the next morning actually comes and all the things that I said I would do suddenly become something for another time. I do agree with you that our well-being often comes as a second when prioritizing our day. One instance of this is when I had to do the planning sheet for my senior year class selections and I realized just how much time I had for myself.

    Even though I'm not sick, my brain still churns out the same garbage for my POAS that a third grader would write. Good luck on yours and I hope you're feeling better by now!

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