Creating A CD

Describe the most challenge you have faced and the steps you have taken to overcome this challenge. How has this challenge affected your academic achievement?

The significant academic challenge I have faced, is my learning disability. in all my life I have this challenge, and I can’t run from these struggles. The struggles are from reading to math, and from math going into memory issues that I have to struggle with all my life.

Our midterm for this class was to split into two groups and produce a short film. I have always had a passion for filmmaking and never had the man power to help me make a short film. With this project, we had to write, shoot, and edit a film. Over the two weeks, I put in 27 hours of work. Seeing the final project was the most fulfilling academic experience I’ve had as I could see my group’s hard work and a goal of mine become a reality.

Tell me about an assignment that was too difficult for you. How did you resolve the issue?

The story of the assignment that impacted me the most begins in a class I initially despised. There was a collective grump and groan when the networking and cyber security majors were informed that we must all take an introductory business course. We all simply could not understand how any business concepts could aid in our ability to program an effective network with corresponding security. With a rather narrow mind, I entered the class that I was told by others was the my boring and dull experience of their academic life. Still, I read the chapters and regurgitated basic concepts into short essay answers as requested by my instructor. However, after a short time came an assignment about learning to plan a business process and improve it.

5. Describe the most significant challenge you have faced and the steps you have taken to overcome this challenge. How has this challenge affected your academic achievement?

Challenges I encountered within my project would include the long term organizing of such a large and daunting art show. Transportation to the gallery and to the Humane Society was a challenge due to me living in Ashland and not having a licence. Successes I experienced would be overcoming the large challenges of completing what seemed like two senior projects with an accumulation of over 140 hours, and becoming more independent by getting a driver’s licence to be able to take myself where I

Also, within this class I learned that I had a creative side in me which I didn't know existed. From coming up with lesson plans to ways to organize things to creating thoughtful gifts for the students and teacher, I had to use my innovative imagination.

Describe a challenging situation, the obstacles involved, and how your thinking allowed you to stick with the task.

My greatest challenge in semester 1 is the rap I had to do for my history class and it was hard because I had to make a rap about a certain topic in history. What made it a lot harder for me was that I told my whole group to meet at the library so we can finish the rap but none of them would show up on any of the days I told them to come, so I pretty much had to do the whole project by myself. But what got me mad the most of all was the fact that they still got their points when they pretty much did anything except sing the song with me.

Task 1 requires you to submit a written piece of work covering all learning outcomes (LO1s, LO2s & LO3s) with a reflective account embedded in the context of work.

1. Please provide me an example of how you have "multi-tasked" at another job or at school.

Describe the most significant challenge you have faced and the steps you have taken to overcome this challenge. How has this challenge affected your academic achievement?

The challenges I mentioned in my first writing assignment were how I handle my emotions, depression, eating habits, and personal motivation. Looking at these issues now with a few months of analysis has given me a new way to see these things. I have come to handle my emotions better, and without the "stop and look" button I so desperately thought I needed. Having a young child has given me the push I needed to really assess a situation to see if there is even a need to be upset at all. Sure you can't change everything overnight, or even in a few months, and I still do have moments of relapse in this matter, but I have managed to regain some control on how I react to the secondhand emotions I spoke of before without the need of a professional. This has truly improved the conditions of my relationships with my family and friends.

What does this piece reveal about you as a learner? What did you learn about yourself as you worked on this piece?