Mrs Galloop Reflection

Throughout the past couple of months my fellow peers and I have been studying the topic ‘challenge’ and how it affects our lives and people around us. In our everyday lives we are confronting challenges, some are as small as walking up a few steps, and some are larger and more challenging that could be life or death circumstances.

As a result, overcome challenges is very essential as if do not overcome challenge, we will not know how to do anything. I believe that all these troubles and experiences the stresses that come along with

As she began working with South Asian women with family problems, making their problems like her own, she slowly started to find solid ground of identity for herself. This ended up becoming a very valuable experience by helping women of her own culture. She eventually found a way to heal her own wound and returned to her cultural identity. Going back to my story, the morning after the argument, I woke up with my father next to me. I recall my father telling me that if I do not want to, he is not going to force me to take ceramic classes with me. For the first time, I had a deep father-son conversation with him, and shared him what happened a year ago in my school. He hugged me so tight, as he saw nothing about what I said but a deep passion towards ceramics and pots. He told me, “What classmates? You mean the one we left in Philippines? The irrelevant people in your life?” My father’s words struck me hard, I completely understood what he meant, that irrelevant people’s words and criticism means nothing. After a good breakfast, I helped my dad pick ceramic classes we are going to take. Ever since then, I have been going to a ceramic class at least once a week, even after my father went back to Philippines. This shows that every history and cultures deserve respect, and to attempt to live life with full of

Upon completion of reading the text, I experienced the exact situation described within. I opened up a new blog post (my first one ever) and sat looking at a blank page. Getting tired of being mocked by a white page, I began to play with the design aspects for my blog in the hopes I would receive the spark of inspiration. That never happened. An entire day passed before I even attempted to type again. The whole experience was fitting considering the piece of writing I am responding to. The author, Anne Lamott, examined the difficulties even the "professional" writers experience. She explained that even writers who must do so every day, struggle with the simple aspect of how to begin. The picture painted on television is in stark contrast to

In life, facing challenges and not giving up can make life better. Challenges are a part of an everyday life. They make us stronger and without them life becomes somewhat meaningless because we have nothing to compare the good times too. While reading Mother to Son, The California Gold Rush, and The Rights of The Streets of Memphis, they each showed an idea of how facing challenges will change your life in a better way.

In my personal and professional life I’m going to run into many obstacles throughout the years, I believe going into the medical field I’m going to face many obstacles every single day I’m working or going through my schooling. I’m going to overcome these obstacles by working hard and studying for all my test so I can maintain a higher grade point average and get through my schooling. When I get to the point when I’m in my professional life the obstacles I’m going to be facing are angry parents, stubborn patients, kids dying from cancer or another type of disease, I’m going to be dealing with these situations every day in my professional. It's going to be hard to face these situations everyday in my professional, am i going to like the fact

Challenges are not meant to be easy. But the strength put into it, can help prepare for adulthood. Overcoming challenges can help a person grow maturely as shown by Scout in “To Kill A Mockingbird” and by Jerry in “Through the Tunnel”.

A challenge is defined as a task or a situation that tests one’s abilities. Challenges can be created by one. Occasionally, they can even appear without our control. Instead of concealing myself from the challenges, like several people, I confront them. Every trial that I face never fails to teach the unique and unfamiliar attributes about myself. Even though tests might be harder than other tests, I strive to undertake all of them to discover the capacity of my abilities. Challenges should not be seen as something that prevents progress, but rather something that welcomes it. Working harder and staying committed to be in the top 10% had been a challenge that I faced junior year.

In my life I’ve been given many opportunities in which I’ve had to make challenging decisions. I’ve often chose to persevere and overcome the challenges than to quit. In the first semester of grade twelve I had to overcome challenging academic choices. I had two unit tests and an Independent Study Unit presentation all in the same day. I did not look at the situation in a problematic way, I choice to approach the problem in a positive way to overcome the challenges. I used this situation as an opportunity to use my time management skills and my work habits effetely. I did not just have to manage my time around my upcoming unit tests and presentation but along with basketball practices and games that I had in the same week. I used this challenge

During the panel with Ms. Downing, I could tell that she knew a lot about Wesleyan, and that she genuinely agreed with the institution's goals and ideas: and at one point even mentioned the university's mission statement. I find it very appealing to know that she has experience working with first generation, and low income students and her current place of employment, seeing that here at Wesleyan a significant portion of the student body falls under at least one of those titles. The initiative she has created to help foster a community of financially literate students, is incredible in my opinion: and it must be noted that this program is going to be led by a student. While it has taken about a year to find, a qualified student to do so, the fact that she is having a student have a leadership position in such a essential outreach program, for a lack of better terms, is so Wesleyan.

When i come upon an obstacle i learn from it and turn it into something good. For example, in the book the “The inner castle” lori, the main character, would have to move from school to school due to her father's work. However, rather than her seeing it as a bad thing she looked to the bright side and made moving from schools every 4 months an opportunity

​Within my lifetime, I have encountered obstacles that have shaped me as a person today. For example, when I turned 16, I wanted to get a job to support my mother. I filled out many applications; however, I kept getting rejected. I began to get discouraged after a couple of months, but I didn't want to give up easily. I applied to a couple more grocery stores and once again, I got denied. One Saturday morning in May, my mother and I decided to go to Tysons Corner Mall to search for more jobs. I remained optimistic because I was determined to leave the mall with hopes of getting a job. After a couple of weeks, I got a call from Justice and the manager was interested in me and wanted to schedule an interview. I was very excited and I wasn't going

Currently, I am working in Richard Cripps lab as an undergrad assistant whose main tasks are to prepare stock solutions and supplies, and manage the inventory for the genetic and protein study of the mechanisms of muscle development in drosophila. While working, I learned from my coworkers the process to identify drosophila mutants, the process to run a Western blot, and how to review journal articles and figures.

Moliere, a french actor, once said, “The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.” As we continually go through life, we realize that obstacles are unavoidable. What we have failed to realize is that these obstacles are definitely an opportunity and it is up to us to take the opportunity. Once we experience these challenges and truly meditate on them, we will be able to see that there is an opportunity to every obstacle. Many role models have shown that these opportunities are everywhere through their lives.

‘It is when I struggle that I strengthen. It is when challenged to my core that I learn the depth of who I am.’ I kept on repeating this to myself waiting for my campus interview in the final year. Sitting there with fervor, I entered the room with utmost confidence. The whole interview was not just technical but challenged my grit, determination and presence of mind. And after coming out of the interview, I just knew I had grabbed the opportunity. That day taught me; challenges can make you or break you; it all depends on you.