Emnt 290 Week 2 Personal Reflection

Week four of MA105 has arrived. As I reflect on the past weeks of this class I can say that it has been a little challenging. The topics covered have been what I expected. This is partly due to the fact that I looked ahead in the Math Center to see what subjects will be taught before the class began. I also have a memory of the formulas from when I was in high school. However, that memory has not translated to fluency yet.

I've spent the last two years as a business major mostly due to my father putting the fear of God into me by telling me that if I major in anything other than business that I would end up poor and permanently jobless. As a naive 17-year-old that had always done as told, I chose not to research his statements and opted to pick a major in the business field that I felt I could handle at a school that I was told had a good job placement rate. So, the two years that I spent studying marketing at Clarion were two years that I never thought much about humanities majors. In fact, I was so far gone into my little bubble that I refused to acknowledge

Everyone who decides to enroll in college must, at some point, think about what area they want to major in. There are many things that students consider when choosing a major. Some make their decision based on what they think can make them the most money once they begin their lives in the work force. However, many students believe that if you choose a major that interests you and challenges you then you can use those skills that can help you in any career. (R. Landrum & S. Davis, 2014) Let’s face it. Employers know that when they hire someone straight out of college they are not immediately going to know

Before I attended to HS 200 class, I didn’t have enough information about what kind of jobs that I could get in with bachelors of science in health science degree. I had planed to take MCAT after graduation to involve into medical program. However, my plan was changed since I attended this health science class because of the assignments that I have done during this semester for the class, such as the research of the graduate program and the job search.

My gender (Abel 2017) is a female. I can describe my race (Abel 2017) by my physical characteristics such as I am white, I have long black hair, I have brown eyes. I can represent my ethnicity (Abel 2017) with my nationality that I am Egyptian, Christian, and I know how to speak 3 languages (Arabic, French, and English). These things have affected my life positively. For example, when I came to the United States, there were many friends who were interested to know about me and my country. Also, it affects negatively because at a time that I was trying to find a job that I like and it was on a factory, they someone came and told me that they didn’t accept me because they needed a boy to work in this position of a job, because you might carry stuff and boys are stronger than girls. Moreover, the Muslim brotherhood force Christian women to wear the hijab. That’s what the Muslim women wear around their

One of the many issues I faced as a collage student was choosing the correct major. I did not know what I wanted to accomplish after collage once I entered the work force. I had always seen myself in business somewhere but I never had a revelation on which major was the best for me. I realized that I needed some direction to my life and that I couldn’t get through collage without choosing a career path to take.

After the first semester of freshman year at Bentley University, students take a Career Development Seminar, which begins by taking a survey about strengths. Out of 34 strengths, the test lists the top 5 strengths for each person. Bentley students typically share the same type of strengths, such as Analytical, Focus, Maximizer, Strategic, and Woo. However, when I received my results, I felt like the elephant in the room. While most people received Competitive and Achiever as their top two strengths, mine came back as Relator and Empathy. As awkward as it was to explain to my teacher that my results were atypical, this moment lit a light bulb inside of my head. During my first semester, I struggled with my business courses, and none of the material seemed to pique my interest. At first, I wrote this off as a transition period and a time where I just needed to adjust to the college lifestyle while away from home and on my own. As time went on, this idea began to turn into serious doubt about whether the corporate business world was for me. The only problem was that Bentley is known for its business programs; in fact, out of 24 majors

The reason I chose the field that I am in today, is because when I was in high school I had no idea what I wanted to be. I just wanted out of my normal classes and found a way to do so. At my High school we had a career center and none of the programs caught my eye until it I saw computer maintenance. I went in with the mindset that this course was going to just be another easy typing class, but on our first day our instructor clearly told us that this is going to be the hardest class you will ever take in high school and that if you were here to goof off you got two weeks to change classes. Within those two weeks we went over course safety and our syllabus. The course caught my attention I really wanted to see what it had to offer and

I am not the most confident writer so all of the assignments make me a bit nervous. The last time I took a writing class was around four years ago. However, I did take Engl 349 J last semester and we had to do a reflection paper after each book we read. Since the reflections are mainly to get you thinking, I feel that I can do well in these. In my last class they were meant to be informal writing and am not sure how formal the reflective writing for this class is supposed to be. As someone majoring in psychology, I feel that I can do well in analyzing published research. It can also be a good opportunity to practice how to paraphrase appropriately. Writing for science seems a bit daunting, but it is the type of writing necessary for psychology.

At first I did not think I would enjoy this week’s reading because it began with politics, which isn’t something I enjoy reading about, but as I continued the reading they were talking more about standardized testing and unfair questioning. This was really interesting to me because I like learning more about standardized testing and the questions that are on those tests. I was surprised when they talked about the type A parents who were having their children spend all of their free time studying for the ACT/SAT. I was interested in the part where authors stated SAT scores have a correlation with college GPA and I am wondering what that correlation is. I know some research shows that it is not a good predictor of how a student will do in college,

From early elementary school and even now I have sold over a thousand Girl Scout Cookies. I’ve always enjoyed going out and trying to get customers to buy what I was selling. I looked into business as a major and I found that there is a lot more to it that just buying and selling. You learn accounting, business methods, producing goods, etc. People and computer skills are needed to do well in this major. Some colleges that offer this major are Northern Arizona University, Concordia University Portland, New York University. With this major you can own your own business, be an accountant, and financial advisors, etc. I think this major would be able to open many doors for endless opportunities to be

As a result of this, students have more competition when searching for a job. In describing this issue, in “Business is the most popular college major, but that doesn’t mean it’s a good choice,” Jeffrey J. Selingo states: “Research shows that students who major in general business and marketing are more likely to be unemployed or underemployed, meaning they hold jobs that don’t require a college degree” (Selingo). Selingo suggests that students pick a major thinking it will be easy to get a job after college where in reality it is harder. Here, he points out that the lack of guidance students are given in school and also how uneducated people can be when it comes to choosing the best major for them. People tend to pick the easiest major and, in the end, they have their college tuition to pay with no job opportunities. This quote strongly reinforces my argument about students not knowing what degree has the best career opportunities. Selingo further states: “Students today are commonly told they should follow their passions and find a mission in life, but very few 18-year-olds or even 22-year-olds have enough experience in the world to know what truly excites them. Pick a major that interests you, but allow it and external experiences to help shape, not dictate, your mission in life” (Selingo). This quote is important because it shows that most students do not really know the

I’ve decided to major in the Business industry, more specifically marketing. I figured that the Business industry provides all the things I enjoy doing. Not to mention the versatility the area provides. To choose to work in the Business industry requires a lot of determination and discipline. I know I have the potential to have those strong characteristics, but being able to pursue my career in college will allow me to reinforce them. The connections that come with college will also aid me in meeting the right people in the industry. Attending college with people that have the same goal as myself will allow me to keep my eye on the goal and not deter me from my dream. College is no longer unreachable, I’ve been accepted and I’ve set my mind to succeed in it. Now all I have left is to worry about is how will I be able to afford my chosen career and the things that come along with it. The thing is though, when I attend college the chances of me getting a financially stable job are very likely. When I am able to get the kind of career I pursue, I’ll be able to take care of almost any challenge that gets in my way. College is going to aid me into becoming a successful business woman, that’s going to work hard to make a difference in people’s

I am a Business Management major and I have no clue what I intend to do with my life. I chose business management as my major, because despite being undecided, I thought that it was the most useful. Business management appeared to be the most useful to me, because everything is essentially a business. I’m not worried about what I’m going to do with my life though, I have faith that it will all work out. As it says in the bible, “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.” (John 14:27).

I am planning on pursuing a minor in Business from the Leeds school of business. This minor is attractive to me because companies want engineers with an understanding of how they fit into the company as a whole, and a minor in business can help with this. In addition to this, the business minor takes the rigorous engineering courses that engineers must take into account, and, as a result, they have distilled the entire minor down to just 4 courses and 12 credit hours. The accessibility of the business minor makes it a popular choice for people from all different majors. The first courses are titled Marketing and Management and Finance and Accounting. Next, the student must choose a track from the following options: Innovation, Analytics, Entrepreneurship, and Global. Of these courses, I would be most likely to choose Entrepreneurship, as I like the idea of developing business ventures and taking risks. Finally, the student takes the Capstone course called Business Plan Development. This course is distinctive in that entire curriculum entails splitting up into smaller groups and developing a personalized, complete business plan for your own unique business. Each team is able to use the professor as a resource, and the business school also hires local entrepreneurs as coaches to help the teams along their journey. Each of the teams that wins their section moves on to a next level of competition where they present in front of