Best Self Reflection

I am currently a student at the University of Texas at San Antonio for almost a whole semester now. I came to this school straight out of high school, not knowing what I was getting myself into. During my high school years, I was good at every subject except my writing class. Coming to UTSA, I knew I was going to struggle in my writing class, but that didn’t discourage me from not trying my best in the course. Going through the English program, I realized that I have some strengths and weaknesses in the class, and it encouraged me to do better. The essays I have written for this class demonstrate that I have developed a strong thesis, organization skills, and detail; however, I still need to improve on grammar, keeping the POV, and citing.

During the presentation, the team adapted the demonstration method inside of welcoming, did not perform encouragement for the audience to join the movie night and help out the charity. The plain slides style did not provide secure engagement and visual appeal. Ticketing system explanation was made

Peoples appearances in todays society is based upon the clothes they decided to wear that morning, the hairstyle they spent hours on doing and the hours that they would never get back deciding what pattern would look cute to wear on the outside of their skin, bedazzled with sterling silver. With no anticipation of being stereotyped people continuously repeat these actions in the purpose of self satisfaction or expression. The two articles referred to in this essay provides personal experiences of the causes in self reflection decisions in addition to a medical perspective on why sometimes the risk outweighs the rewards.

. Various stories also expressed admiration at my courage to perform on stage and noted how I was not afraid to put himself self out there and been seen. It was also expressed how I was admired for not being afraid to express my opinions and ideas while at the same time listening to others. More than anything, it was greatly expressed how often I go out of his comfort zones to grow or achieve greater success, a habit that I wasn’t even fully aware of. Nothing in these responses mentions my shyness, or self-doubt proving that I am much more confident, bold, and capable that I normally have viewed myself.

The past few months at Northside Elementary have been full of memories. When starting the fieldwork process I was not sure how one hour a week with a group of ten to fifteen students was going to be able to provide me with multiple experiences on the community partnership level. However, I quickly learned that every student has a story to tell and a lesson to offer. I spent the majority of my time with a ten-year-old boy by the name of Jeremiah. Jeremiah was initially very shy and not receptive to learning from a girl, thankfully that quickly changed and on Monday’s around 3:30 I could see him inside the waiting at the cafeteria windows for me to arrive to school. On the outside a child might seemingly have everything they could possible want with their new shoes or their new iPhone but Jeremiah taught me that the outside appearance is not always what it seems and dynamically at home there could be some family issues or at school there could be delays in academic success making the student feel helpless and worthless. Over the past several weeks, I tried to recognized and practice this philosophy as a volunteer, and even share with some teachers, that as a teacher you can never fully understand what a student in your classroom is going through when they walk through your doorway that day, so it is essential to be patient, kind and choose your actions along with the words spoken carefully.

When I stare at a blank page of paper today, I am able to visualize the many possibilities of its potential use a much more than compared to when I was younger. When I was about elementary/middle school age, black sheets of paper brought the expectation of notes in classes such as Ms. Chilikoff’s history and language arts, Mrs. Williams’s math class, and Mrs. Apodaca’s science lectures. It brings memories of procrastination and hesitation as to how to begin my essays on trivial topics that didn’t particularly leave a lasting impression on my learning experience. I just remember the anxious feeling of trying to be “perfect” on the first try, trying to force myself to start long projects so I wouldn't stress as much, and the therapeutic doodles as I constantly get sidetracked from my work.

During my first year in my master’s program my first internship training was with Strength United providing family therapy to families with cases open under the Department of Child and Family Services. I was soon assigned my first case. A family of 4 in which the children were exposed to abuse (domestic violence and adult content) at the hands of their father. This was a Latino family and the father was the sole financial provider. I worked closely with the mother, who was Spanish speaking had limited education and were undocumented. The children in the home ranged from 3 years old to 14 years old. Due to the nature of the abuse the father was required to vacate the household during the time the case was to remain open. Naturally, the mother had several fears and regrets.

Walking into the stadium, my heart racing, I prepared myself to take on one of the biggest challenges of my life. The stadium lights blared onto mats as the 20,000 people in attendance made their way to their appropriate sections. As the youngest in my category, I braced myself for the assessment ahead of me: I would compete in the Taekwondo World Championships in hopes of earning a medal for my academy. After hours of competing, my academy returned home victorious with five gold, four silver, and two bronze medals. Participating in the competition taught me to work hard to help my organization be as successful as possible; this, and many other generous opportunities have allowed me to understand my own leadership potential and how I can fit into the leadership process.

After going to pre-school my motor and social skills peaked since I had never seen many toys and I began to play with toys and make crafts like putting a string on a mitten and make many friends, but I had more guy friends rather than girlfriends since I had arrived from Mexico and all the girls where mean to me. Fast forward to when I was four and five years old, not only was I growing and more energized but I had a new family with a mom, a dad. Now I was able to go to the park and ride my bike with training wheels and run around and play soccer I would make forts inside and outside of our small apartment. Later on, in Kindergarten I would play with my friends and work together to build puzzles and play group games and solve problems or learn new vocab words. Teachers would have in place many games and tasks for us to build our social and language skills. Such as jumping rope and seeing who could jump to 100 and learn to encourage our group, and we would play hide and seek and whoever's groups had more points would win. These activities helped me learn to work within a group and work in unity to succeed as an individual and as a group. But the main goal of speaking our mind and our emotions failed after the incident with my dad.

Coming into a college writing course, I did not expect it to be easy. Throughout high school essays were very easy to write due to teachers cutting way too much slack and handing out easy grades. Writing has always been difficult for me, but I feel this is because I have not been challenged yet to demonstrate my full writing ability. I had yet to develop my own voice as a writer. Throughout this course, I was met with many challenges to bring out the true writer inside of me and because of this, I was ultimately able to grow as a writer. The essays that I have written throughout the WRC 1013 course demonstrate that I have developed better annotation skills, communication skills and personal responsibility skills; however, I still need to improve in proofreading and learning how to receive more revisions from my peers.

Looking back to the beginning of the semester, I remember how out of practice I was in writing non-technical papers. My writing style felt clunky and awkward, and writing a persuasive essay was absolutely foreign to me. However, over the past weeks I have rekindled my ability to write non-technical, persuasive papers. I also have grown writing skills by the repetition of some new techniques that have helped me become a better writer. In this self-assessment, I will discuss the skills and strategies I have grown in as well as the steps I need to take in the future to continue to develop my writing skills.

Remember that time you felt passionately about something. An exciting desire to do or be something of your pure uninfluenced interest. Now do you also recall that time of doubt and criticism of yourself? But why? Why are we so quick to dissolve our own dreams and aspirations? In three key points, I will attempt to decipher this psychological anomaly called self-limitation and we can overcome its filters. Why this topic is important to me is because it is something I certainly struggle with and it is something we all have experienced. It is what holds us from becoming more than we can be and more than we want to be, which end the end is happy.

“You’re retarded, Tristin,” my classmate said to me as I sat in the corner of the classroom, unable to read the text in front of my eyes. As I sat there struggling, mocked by my peers, I withdrew further and further into myself. I had just switched schools, and this new environment I had been put into was hostile and unforgiving. My six year old self began to believe that what my peers were saying to me was true. I was stupid and there was no way to fix that. My grades started to slip, and I became more and more secluded.

In my self-reflective analysis, I discovered My strengths are that I’m a decent student, excellent mother, I’m a responsible parent and adult. I enjoy giving back to my community, and helping others out whenever needed. Learning to focus and concentrate better on schooling rather than everything else occurring. I’m working towards being goal oriented and working on improving my life financially, physically, emotionally. I have abstained from eating certain foods and drinks.

In our daily life's family members, friends, sales people, and stores try to convince us to buy or sign up for a certain product. It is not obvious what tactics the merchant is utilizing because we are so curious to see if the product is rightful to use or beneficial to use. In growing older more people approach me to sign up for insurances, credit cards, cars and mobile phones in doing this because they see me as a young woman. As a result, they think I will comply to what they are asking of me. In taking this class learning about the weapons of influence which are conformity, scarcity, commitment, authority and liking I paid attention more to the persons words and actions towards me.