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My Peer Is A Year Old Canadian

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My peer is a 29-year-old Canadian, who has been studying in college for 11 years, and will be graduating next year with a Bachelors of Arts in applied linguistics, and a Bachelors of Science in psychology simultaneously. My peer believes that everything can be accomplished since they hasn’t been proven wrong yet. They said they wants to graduate in 2016 with a honor cord, because they has been studying in college for 11 years, and they doesn’t want to extend their graduation date. They is willing to go to a medical school or other graduate programs after graduating from Portland State University. After that, they is tempted to be an acupuncturist or works in any other Chinese medicine related occupations. They has set up numerous academic goals for themselves recently.
My peer feels extremely confident about their future, and believes that they is on the right track now. It seems like everything is going well. However, they has changed their majors many times within the last 11 years, such as chemistry, English, mathematics, pre-pharmacy, and so on. I have realized that persistence is one of the most influential factors of achieving goals. Therefore, I have chosen Goal-Setting Theory to help my peer for finding more feasible ways, which can help them to actualize all of their goals.
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During the last two weeks, I had conducted two interviews with my peer for gaining more in-depth understanding about how and why they set up those goals. From the interview, I

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