6V-Keep on Going

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Persistence is when you continue on in the direction of your goal, no matter the road blocks or dilemmas that arise.  This was a very prevalent word this week because of my anxiety.  In many ways it hindered me from doing my work and keeping focused on school, but I continued to focus on school.  Although I may not have put in as much effort as I have in previous weeks, I continued to stay fairly caught up with the rest of my work.

A word that came up this week that I did not recognize was damping.  I read it in a definition in one of my textbooks. The definition I found for damping is a decrease in the amplitude of an oscillation as a result of energy being drained from the system to overcome frictional or other resistive forces.  Although I do not completely understand the definition of this word completely, I found it interesting.  It seemed like it might have a simple definition, so when I found out that it wasn't I was surprised.

The second word I did not recognize this week was, honoraries.  This word was not brought up in a class, but in a conversation between a friend and I.  We were talking about the advantages to being involved on campus.  She talked about how she wanted to know the campus honoraries better.  Although you can infer the definition from the context of the word, I wanted to get the exact definition.  As expected it was an elite member of a group of people.