School is for YOU

How can you, as the manager of your own education, ensure that school assignments meet your needs? Is there are way to meet the instructor's expectations, while also following your own interests?

I believe there is always a way to bend the assignment to fit your interests. If you are able to choose your topic, you can choose something which you are interested in or want to learn about, as long as it fits the criteria. Most teachers are fairly supportive of outside interests and some will allow you to do something a little different if you talk to them first. It is up to you to find ways to interject your interests into your assignments whenever you can. Doing this will allow you to do the project with more passion, therefore resulting in a better mark and making it more enjoyable for yourself. It's hard to do an assignment when you couldn't care less about the topic. Have to do a history assignment on the 1800's? If you find it a snore-fest but really like music, give a brief overview of the time period, answer all the necessary questions, and then instead focus on the way music in the 1800's has influenced modern day songwriting or compare the two etc. Same goes for anything else, just make sure it's okay with your teacher so you don't get bagged for "not understanding the assignment."

"Don't let schooling get in the way of your education." - Mark Twain