Final Project Reflection

A condition of my admission to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was the completion of my senior year courses. I admit that my grade in Math Techniques was an F. This fact is not what I wish to explain, as there is no way for me to skirt the fact that I received a failing grade in this class.

As I am entering into the final semester of my MLS studies I have the desire to gain more working knowledge of various library types and their practices. I would like to secure a practicum that will enable me the opportunity to gain practical hands on experience in a special library. Though this experience is not required for completion of my MLS degree I feel that the knowledge gained from this practicum placement will be invaluable. It will help create a more well-rounded and versatile professional base to draw from as I continue in the library profession.

Throughout my Senior Capstone project, I have learned many things about myself and the people that I worked with to make my project a success. Working with the elderly residents at the assisted living facility opened my eyes and I viewed things with a different perspective. Going into the project, I did not know what to expect with the residents, but towards the end, the residents knew me so well and had inspired. My favorite part about this project was the opportunity to interact with new people and know what they live their daily lives like. Being able to be around them gave me the chance to talk and listen to stories about their lives. They were also welcoming to any stories that I could relate to and always listened intently to my stories.

I have learned so many things out of this class that would be very useful to me in the future. Also, I don’t think that if I truly want to write about all the things I have learned from this class it would all fill a 2 pages paper. However, the three main things that I have retained from this include how to write a response paper, how to read a book better, and how to better write essays.

This past two week were most dedicated to the final project, but we also had a guest speaker from the biomedical engineering. We get feedback for our design decision matrix and for our second project report.

My project was to showcase my abilities in makeup and sfx makeup. I practiced individual cuts and bruises on myself first. My mother donated her face to be the bulk of my project, and I transformed one half into a zombie, and the other, made up traditionally. I used several reference photos and videos during the process. It took about 7 hours, including clean up time. I was fighting off the flu at the time, and it was important to frequently wash my hands. I hope to get a job as a cosmetic/fashion makeup artist, whether it be freelance, at a set location, or in the special effects field. I would love to be able to do makeup for movies and TV shows in the horror/fantasy genre. I am also interested in skincare, which

At the beginning of the project, my group had difficulty of picking a topic. Since, my group member and I both had different topics that we would like to work on. At the end, we both agreed to work on cyberbullying because the subject is relevant and not often speak of until something happens as result of cyberbullying. We also worked together on all aspects of the project including writing and editing the prospectus, communicating with the school nurse and advisor, and making the poster and the bookmark. As we worked on the project, my struggles and weaknesses showed as well as my strengths. I had difficulty of speaking in front of big group and present the materials. However, my group member helped me to overcome that difficulty by practicing speaking and presenting

After completing clinical simulation laboratory session 5: surgical scrub, I found that entire process of surgical scrub is way too complicated and time consuming: the entire process took me 5 minutes to complete and one wrong move could result in restarting whole process. My tutor emphasized the importance of surgical asepsis and its role in preventing infection but surgical scrub seemed torturous and waste of time to me. Still not fully convinced, I decided to do some research to find out the importance of proper surgical scrub.

I am a student in the Masters of Science in Information Security and Assurance at Western Governors University. I am currently working on my Capstone Project. The capstone project deals with a significant real world business problem that integrates the component of the degree. I have chosen to do my project on how blockchain technology can improve banking and cross-border payment system. I my project I am interested in implementing the ripple payment system using BaaS platform in Azure I my scenario: “ Bank of the People” (fictitious) With 10 billion in assets and process about 12 billion in cross-border transactions a year. I need to know the following for a cost analysis in the three models that Earthport offers financial institutions

The three courses I took this semester have all gave me insight to important information I have been able to apply at my work and will be able to continue applying in my future jobs. My business and professional writing class has shown me how correctly structuring work documents, letters, resumes, policies can demonstrate the professionalism of an employee or organization. Since this course when directing information through my supervisors I try to make sure my letters or any other documents are well written and formatted. I have received complements on my current job for doing this also.

I'm a final semester Computer Science student at the University of Wollongong, Australia - specialising in Systems Security and Software Engineering. I do have a passion for user interface design, something I look at in my past time. I generally prefer design that is simple and minimal, after all good design should recedes to the backgrond, allowing for the content to take centerstage.

Buddhism has been relevant to my life throughout my own cultural experiences and knowledge that I received from the Buddhist Ethics course taught by Dr. Geoffrey Barstow. The ideas and practices of Buddhism were not limited to my past knowledge and continuously expanded as I went over the introduction level of the course. The study of Buddhism opened to me various aspects that were beyond what I had known. The most standing out topic seemed to change my perspective in Buddhism was karma. The concept of karma is not simply to determine every single action that I have done in my lifetime but it also makes me think critically what is right or wrong in many situations when I make an action or behavior to other people around

In thinking about how my knowledge and beliefs about communication have changed or grown resulting from participation in this course and the positive impact. I would have to say I am grateful for the knowledge I am gaining, due to the improved care I can offer, as well as a broadened knowledge surrounding dementia.

In my final discussion, I have ascertained that I can accomplish several of things when I put my mind into doing it. Writing is a skill that I have enjoyed theses pass weeks. There were times I was honed making a perfect sentence. I began to practice and wrote then went back to proofread; make it easier to see my mistakes.

Unlike the pretest where I had many days to administer my pre assessment, I only had one day to try to get in twenty-six post assessments. My Impact project ran the three weeks leading up to fall break and I wanted the students to be able to get through the design and building process of their structure before I began administering the post assessment. In a perfect world, I would have waited until the fourth week to administer it when the structures would have been completed and we could have evaluated them for effectiveness. However, with fall break and a deadline for my Impact project, I had to administer it the Thursday before fall break. I was only able to get twenty-two of the twenty six students for the post test, and my data had to be