National Honor Society Reflection Paper

To me success is accomplishing the goals, doing things the right way, and doing what you love.

Working with a team and helping others succeed has led me to partake as a volunteer at the after-school tutoring

My first semester as a college freshman is finally coming to an end. This semester has been the start to a new chapter in my life and I am glad to have finally finished my first semester on a high note. Coming into college I never knew what things would be like and how would I adjust. All I knew is that I wanted to succeed and eventually graduate college. The courses I have taken this semester have had big impact on my learning and my future. Assignments that taught skills and lessons to be used in the future. I have learned skills such as being able to collaborate in groups because of projects in ASU 150.

When I originally was registering my class choices for the Fall 2016 semester, I considered English 111 to be an undemanding course that I could pass without a lot of effort on my behalf. I had no trouble passing prior English courses, years ago, so I felt this course would be similar. What I had not anticipated was how much I honestly could learn, such as: how you should properly cite sources, how you should suitably prove your thesis and how you can accurately set up the flow of a paper. Although, the most informative part of English 111, for me, has been absorbing all the information on the different styles of papers that can be written. I believe that recognizing the usefulness of distinctive varieties of papers will help me throughout

The National Society of Collegiate Scholars is an organization that will go above and beyond to help the members achieve his or her goals academically. I have seen first had that this organization can and will help every college student that takes the change and joins. Not only does my local chapter recognize students for their dedication and hard work effort but also over the past year I have seen the difference this organization makes within the life of a college student.

In my junior of high school I volunteered, through the educational program Scholars, at a middle school called Tomas Rivera Middle School. As I already had experience tutoring students because of my position as a certified avid tutor in my middle school, I quickly became involved. I worked with students falling in mathematics and English learners. I was in charge of 2 distinct groups. The first, were 7th grade students in advanced algebra 1 and my second group was composed of 8th grade students in regular algebra 1. I worked with these dedicated students for a semester, almost every wednesday before I would go to school, for about an hour and 30 minutes.

High school has been a very interesting experience for me. It has definitely had its highs and lows and many confusing experiences in between. Overall, I feel like I have been equipped for not only college, but also life as a whole. High school has taught me many things, both academically and emotionally. It has revealed and exposed my true colors, both good and bad, and as a result, has built many aspects of my character. My experiences at school have shaped me into the person that I am today.

For my service learning opportunity, I chose to help a nonprofit tutoring organization. I didn't tutor, but I did help format the website and used my English skills I've devolved from TOPS to make her message more clear to any viewers. I chose this opportunity because I know how many kids my age hate school and wish school didn't even exist, but I also know how badly kids in these third world countries dream of school. They dream of being able to know as much as we do even though we don't even know that much. They help the national communities of children between ages 3 - 19 to learn English, mathematics, science, and fine arts. They do this, yet they are a nonprofit organization, so they don't even make money off of this which I think is amazing.

I have been in National Honor Society for a few months now and have participated in a couple of community service projects. The community service project that I'm most proud of and has had the most significant takeaway for me is when we helped gave food and clothes to the people that stayed in the community. Taking Care of Our Own Day is an event where people come and get clothes and food for the family. As a volunteer I helped carry people's bags of food while they went around looking for what they needed. This event is done yearly and each year we have more people that come and receive our charity. This experience affected me in a great deal. It not only showed me that I was blessed for having food to eat and clothes to wear but also that

With personal growth being a large part of attending college, my Honors Orientation 102 class would be forever placed as the most impactful class of my college experience. Originally the class introduced and familiarized my class to the campus and college life. Then a transitional came where we went from learning about ourselves and the school to a class about the importance of community. The quality of virtue has been taken advantage of in the normal public and this class taught me that that’s not an absolute. As a final project, my entire class embarked a tree, not just an ordinary tree, but a tree of community. The class of 30 separated into three groups to take on different branches of the tree. One branch was the “Church”. This project

While in college, I served as the Assistant Director for the Tutoring and Mentoring Committee. This allowed me to volunteer in

At NC State, we taught USC 104 which was for undeclared student0-athleted to address additional concerns about majors and careers. We hosted a major-round table event that brought in various professors/deans from all of the majors on campus. This event allowed students to learn about the expectations and prospects of the major. They were also assigned a final research project on a career they were interested in.

I was given the opportunity to attend Special Olympics with this class. Getting this opportunity was extremely touching to me as I got to learn more about the Special Education community. I got to meet other special needs children as well as their teachers. We discussed methods of teaching and management, assessment, different learning styles, and different types of disabilities children have.

The seventh student learning objective assures that students will be able to communicate effectively. One of the ways that Sherat covers the requirements for SLO 7 is her job at Suncoast Telecommunication which is a telecommunication company with long distance phone services. For Sherat’s job position which is the Customer Service Representative, she is required to effectively communicate to customers and resolve customer issues using the computer system. For instance, Sherat had to help a customer who was having issues with call drops to Srilanka. To effectively communicate to the customer, Sherat took the time to examine the customer’s issue and fixed the issue in 10 minutes by changing the server immediately in order to call in Srilanka.

Since this was a group project, we collectively agreed that we should focus on an issue that has a big impact on DePaul and its students. After some talking we started discussing public safety and recent information of sexual assaults related to DePaul and decided that was an important issue to address. After some research I realized how often sexual assault happens and the lack of awareness at DePaul; this realization influenced my work. I wanted to make sure the class was well informed and understood how big of an issue sexual assault is at DePaul. My experience with working as a group was very pleasant. It was interesting to hear other’ reactions and interpretations on the issue and use those unique perspectives to create our proposal.