Final Reflection

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

　　When I had my interview with the executive director (let’s call her Marian), one of the first questions I had was about faith and spirituality in L’Arche: how did it work in communities where spirituality could be expressed in so many different ways...or where it might not even be expressed at all? Marian explained that L’Arche might have started as a Christian movement, but it grew to accept spirituality in all its forms. She went on to explain that there were many people in the community who didn’t associate themselves with religion, but still shared in the L’Arche mission. When she said this, I remembered the question we had posed in class: how could L’Arche work outside

As I prepare for my final papers in my Generation Education course, Criminology, and my English Lecture course, Pre-English 101; on a scale from one to ten I feel an eight that I will achieve an B or better on my final papers. I feel so strongly about this because in the past few weeks I have been going to my teachers and tutors for extenuating insight concerning my final papers. Not to mention, I have taken the time the appropriate time to dissected the rubrics of my assignments, and extracted the main points my professor were looking for. Moreover, I spend a decent amount time with my peers on ways we can tackle the questions asked for our final papers.

My first semester of college was by far my most difficult, as I struggled with anxiety which was physically and emotionally taxing. As expected, this had a negative impact on my academic performance. The grades I received were the lowest of my academic career. I am not asking you to excuse my grades, as I have since corrected the problem, I do want to explain the reason behind the slow start and change in my grades.

As the semester at its closing point I found myself in intro to ethic class having personal, work value and skills growth over these past 12 weeks in the spring semester. As I read over my old reflections essays and the rereading the materials it appears I was reading and looking at a different person paper. These personal growths help me become better person for the next upcoming semester and life.

As I was reviewing my first essay in this course, I have found different strengths and weaknesses as well as strategies and tips that I possess while writing. Some of my strengths include sentence structure and grammar. My sentence structure had no errors according to the grammarly.com PDF attachment that my professor attached to the feedback portion of my essay. In regards to my grammar, I had one error in this portion. Even though I had one error, I still feel that grammar is one of my strong points. Now that I have identified my strengths, I will tell you about my weaknesses in writing the last essay.

When I first signed up for this class, I had no idea what the course entailed. In all honesty, I only applied for this course because it is a major requirement for me. After nearly completing the course and reflecting back on all of my work, I am truly glad that I had the privilege of enrolling in the course. I have learned an array of social, economic, and environmental issues that cloud our world. After discussing these issues in class and in my discussion section, I feel that a spark has lit inside of me. Seeing the vast range of problems that not only third world countries face, but also the problems that our country faces, made me want to take a step and make a change. I would prioritize local issues because I truly feel that fixing small

Rethink my initial written assignment in the first week (see Appendix A), I have a further development of initial reflections that modern teachers should have educational ideas that keep pace with the times. Based on my past learning experience, teachers usually use blackboards and PPTs to teach on the podium. Students take notes on their books and notebooks. However, through studying this Unit, I found that digital technology is becoming increasingly popular and affects all aspects of life. A discussion area was added to moddle this semester, which greatly facilitated discussion between students and teachers. Student and faculty contact is a good way for students to learn more knowledge from each other through using laptop. Students can share their opinion and learning resources on forum, they can also post some questions they did not understand in class, the teacher and some students can give some suggestions or different opinions. In the classroom, the teacher can also use the computer to play teaching videos for us. In the group discussion, we also use laptop. This saves time for our study and allows us more time to communicate with

Moving on to the twelfth week of the semester, I realized how the semester is moving so fast, I don’t know if it is my anxiety, or it is just the way the semester is going but I am happy the way everything is going. I feel that I am getting closer to one of my goal to start a new journey of my life. The life I thought it is taking forever to get to reach my goal and it is stuck and not going anywhere, but now I am fully confident and excited to see how my next chapter of my life will be after graduation. I do know that I want to continue studying and get at least a masters degree in something of my interest. Doing an internship at Erickson Living, it has helped me to know what my best interests are and what I may be good at and make into my

This week is pretty hectic. I just came back from the HIMSS Annual Conference 2016 in Las Vegas with lots of new discoveries and knowledge. The conference sharpened my career prospects and gave me input on other healthcare information system.

The tail end of the semester is always the most hectic time of the year. I have had my share of ups and down like anyone else. There are two areas of strength, in this third section, I would like to reflect upon. Foremost, has been my ability to stay on top of assignment due dates during the section, and secondly has been my ability to successfully utilize the app on my tablet. Conversely, there has been struggle during this section, two of which have hurt me in points. First, I have struggled with the end of the semester excitement causing distraction and second, complacency in the quality of my assignments.

The first thing that we did in this class that helped the most was creating a planner that included the dates given in all our class syllabuses. This helped me the most since my math class has homework due twice each week, so having a planner allowed me to not confuse the idea that 2.1 is due on Thursday instead of Tuesday. This also helped me with thinking about how much time I have until the next project is due. Other time management skills that helped was goal setting and learning better study skills. The goal setting that helped was realizing what a SMART goal is; Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic/Relevant, and Timely. For this semester, I was able to realize that unlike High School where I could set a goal of getting As and Bs, in college this is unrealistic. My new goal became that I would like to get a grade at or above a C+ and if my grade started dropping before the end of the semester, I would ask the teacher about the topic I was not understanding before the test came. Getting help is also a great study skill, which for myself involved going to Supplemental Instruction Tutoring sessions each week for Statistics, which involved a teachers’ assistant that went over harder topics such as Z-tables vs. T-tables. This made my test grades increase and the SIT session also applies to outside of class resources that we learned about in this class. The activity of a treasure hunt for those resources especially helped since I had not known were the write cite was

For me, this semester was all about getting out of my comfort zone and learning what I am capable of accomplishing. In addition, I learned how to effectively work with a diverse team and what I can do to make our work little better. When I started this semester, I was afraid to make mistakes at work and class. However, when I realized if I wanted to grow then I cannot be afraid to make mistakes and allow it to control my actions. One of the big accomplishments I attained was accepting that I need to stop holding myself back and push myself forward. Ariel, I disliked doing some of the reflections for your class, but I am thankful that you forced me to write what was truly blocking me from accomplishing my goals. Writing it down helped me to see what I need to work on and what I need to do to strengthen my weaknesses and strengths.

When I started this semester I expected college to be like highschool but harder. I was wrong there are many things that I did not expect, and though I did alright this semester I plan on improving a great deal next semester. Next semester I plan on improving how much work I put into academics, how I plan on spending my money, and how I plan on improving my personal life.

I can honestly say I have met all my goals and objectives for this semester that I established at the beginning of the school year. My goals were to receive all A’s, and B’, attend classes, and do the best I can, and I believe I did just that. There were times I fell short and missed class and homework assignments, of course, but I always worked hard to make sure my grades didn’t fall dramatically. The goals that I set for myself were realistic goals and reachable. I knew that if I worked hard enough this semester I would be able to reach them and I did.