In what ways are the data gathered from others (i.e. the data that serve as the basis of your Reflected Best Self Portrait) similar or different from your own perceptions of your best self?
Overall, I’d say that the data gathered from others is reasonably similar to my own interpretation of my best self. The general meaning of themes are all similar to what I’d mention, besides the caring theme, but I’d say that when you look at the specifics and see why others believe that this is a theme of my best self compared to why I see it as part of my best self, some clear differences occur. I believe the best way of demonstrating this is by looking at each theme individually.
Regarding the theme of Organisation, I personally think that my peers do
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This isn’t necessarily to say that I thought I was an uncaring person but I certainly would not have put that as one of my key themes as part of my best self. My mother, Rochelle, said that “You’re always able to look out for people and their needs even if they won’t make it obvious.” which is a theme that many of my peers mentioned as well. I personally thought that the degree to which I’m caring is not one that is more than what the average person does whereas the feedback I received seems to suggest that I can go a step further, demonstrating a difference in …show more content…
Most friends’ examples are from the last three years because that’s when I really started to open up and gain confidence in the public sphere, especially Year 13. The main exception to this is when a friend speaks about personal support which is something that has occurred for a much longer period of time. As I mentioned before, the majority of examples, especially regarding leadership and speaking are in reference to the time between Year 12 and 13, which I think shows that I only showed my potential for my best self in public very recently. Even teachers reacted similarly. The same questioned asked four years ago meant friends and teachers would’ve said more about being kind, polite, and organised but ideas like leadership and speaking only came during the last two to three
I was inspired by the content this week so much so that I incorporated digital storytelling into the UNIV 100 course I am teaching. One of the requirements for the course is to attend four outside events and write a one-page paper about each experience. The third paper is due within two weeks, and students have tended to dread the activity, waiting until the last minute to decide on the event and submit the paper.
I saw myself as a person who was open-minded. I do not have a problem with accepting new ideas and integrating them to what I already know. I predicted myself to be around the middle area of this category and not in the 20th percentile. In the second category, I agree with the result. In some cases, such as when I’m studying, I tend to be disorganized and messy, but other times, when I see a mess, I have the tendency to clean up and organized. This category also mentioned that those who scored poorly are deemed to be undependable. However, I view myself to be quite dependable when a friend needed my assistance. Extraversion category result, is another one that I agree with. I scored in the 37th percentile and I was deemed to be introverted. In most situations, I tend to not associate with classmates or strangers and if there is conflict, I tend to be neutral. It takes a while for me to be friendly to someone I just met. In the fourth category, it illustrated me as a sympathetic and forgiving person. To some degree, I agree with the result because if my friend needs someone to talk to, I am always ready to listen and offer advice. Also, if a friend has done something wrong and it negatively affected me, it doesn’t take me long before I forgive my friend. The only time I am not sympathetic, is when I don’t really know the person or if I don’t fully understand the situation. If I don’t know him or her, I cannot fully
Over this past year, my best piece of writing was perhaps my research paper. This was my best piece because I planned my paper thoroughly, spent quality time reviewing my work, and my peers helped edit it. There were several aspects of this research paper that allowed it to be my best piece of writing. One personal detail that made this piece of writing great was that the topic I researched about was very interesting and easy to write about. Having prior knowledge about the topic, the Keystone XL, I was able to incorporate outside information in my research paper. Another personal detail that allowed this paper to be great was the assignment itself. The assignment was a research paper, which is something I enjoy writing because I can write
The clocks at LIH appeared to be online and communicating to the WDM. I began my check to start data collection that is when I realized the clocks are not operating normally. I tried to reboot, initialize, and test both clocks though it appeared the clocks were in the process of successfully completing the task, it failed. Within the last two hours, I managed to get both clocks to complete a data collection successfully. I contacted Kari, LIH Coordination Center and request to have a TSO swipe their badge on both clocks located at the Checkpoint and Break Room, respectively.
did not fare as well as I expected on my portfolio. I enjoyed this class immensely too, including my professor, Dr. Susan DeLuke. I learned a great deal during the course as well as after the course from Dr. DeLuke, with the multiple homework assignments, and papers, and achieved very good grades under her guidance. However, applying it to the portfolio was challenging. It was a great deal to absorb, retain and get accurate in a short amount of time and I have a tendency to let tasks likes these overwhelm me. I know I could have performed better on my portfolio now. I went from an A in this class to a C+ because of my final portfolio. I thought I did well on it, and I did not. It was very disappointing results for both the student and Professor
Some students have a background, identity, interest, or talent that is so meaningful they believe their application would be incomplete without it. If this sounds like you, then please share your story.
As I completed finding the character traits, I discovered how different I act outwardly than I do in my own head. Inside, I am a nervous wreck scared that I will say the wrong thing and hurt someone’s feelings. Additionally, I am reliable whenever I tell someone I will be there for them no matter what (whether I like that person or not), I will do everything in my power to help you. Finally, I feel as if in my own head I am an old woman. I am more mature than any teenager that I have met in this school; I am bound and determined to get my work done even if it means no breaks. When my friends come to me looking for advice, I give them the most sensible solution, but they don’t want to do it because, “That’s not what I wanted you to say,” Then
This semester in English 1302 my perspective on writing has immensely changed. In the previous semester I struggled and nearly passed by a hair because I did not clearly understand the objectives that were given. In this semester, my mistakes had to be fixed. Although it was a process, I finally got around to clearly understanding what the objectives were for English 1302 and how to apply them to my papers for this course.
Fall 2015 semester was the first time in several years that I drove. I had serve anxiety surrounding driving as a result of a car accident. This affected my attendance greatly as I either missed classes from not being able to leave my driveway or was late from pulling over to calm myself down. I did not want my issues with driving to adversely affect others on the road, hence, I had to rely on family and friends to drive me when they could.
In probing their thoughts to ask if anyone agreed in a single area or if these were generalized comments, my parents stated they believe me to be comfortable with others, prefer to interact and work with others, in groups and/or one-to-one situations. My husband, George, was more adamant in saying that I demonstrate leadership, dedication and conscientious qualities.
I would like to start out by telling you about myself to help you learn and understand who I am and the experiences I have been through. To do that, let me start off when I was 19 years old and I joined the Navy. I was trained in carpentry, masonry and general military knowledge. After 6 years in the Navy learning multiple construction techniques, discipline and even being deployed to Iraq I left the Navy and returned to Colorado. Then wanting to continue my education I enrolled at Metropolitan State University of Denver. After several successful semesters at the University I hit a rough patch not knowing which direction I wanted to go into school. Around the same time my parents retired and moved out of the country and my best friend and roommate was preparing to leave to study abroad in China. I ended up leaving school shortly after at the age of 25 unsure of what I wanted from life. I then started working as a server so I could pay bills and just survive while I thought about what to do next. Soon after I started working for a security company as a field manager putting the knowledge the military had taught me to use. After working this position for over a year I came to realize that, though I was very good at what I did it was not what I wanted to do for a career. I once again moved on and used the skills the Navy had taught me to get a position with a refinishing company doing skilled labor to refinish bathtubs, floors and counter tops. I enjoyed this work, but was
I am now approaching the conclusion of my college career and starting to adjust to work life. This is a period of self-reflection and an attempt to put everything I learned into perspective. During this period of my life, I have been constantly thinking and contemplating my future. I feel very anxious yet nervous during this time while I am adjusting to this new stage of my life. When I was in High school my life was very structured, because I could be very dependent on peoples help and I obviously still lived with my family. When I went to college, I had to break away from that feeling of dependency and start the adjusting to adulthood. In college there was more responsibility and I started to become more independent. This was a crucial step in my life but choosing a career is going to be an even bigger step. It is a bigger step because; I have to start structuring my career goals and family goal for the future. At this moment all I can think about is my career, and how I can I keep improving myself for work life.
I learned that designing a lesson might be easy, but when applying it to a specific audience, it may become more difficult. It seems that anything can go wrong during lessons with a less knowledgeable other, so it is important to be prepared for every possible outcome.
Self-evaluation or personal reflection is the ability to judge our character and personality while referencing to our values and ethics. What we believe to be good and what we also consider to be bad. The ability to know that good will always not be good in all circumstances. Self-evaluation also teach us about the selfish and the selfless behaviors of a person (Barrett, 2004). Do we make decisions that are affected by our selfish gains like we want to make a good life at the expense of other people personal reflection also help us know how we are growing and developing? People undergo changes over time, and these changes may affect their character.
Going through such an incident in my life when I was doing my undergraduate program in China, I was surrounded with a bunch of friends who were with me most of the time. But none of them could see the inner me as I lacked self-disclosure because of insecurity that I felt. But at a moment when I allowed myself to open in front of them, our relationship accomplished a new level from acquaintanceship to a powerful level where we motivated one another. Moreover, our hidden area in the Johari window got larger and we all understood what all talents we had. That was an eye opener for me! I became the deputy minister of the entertainment department in international student union and conducted many programs, including fresher’s party as well as graduation party. Consequently, I became a scholarship student and I explored my talents such