Oswego Icebreaker

We live in a dynamic time when staying focused and on top of things are the tools to excel and guarantee success in both professional and personal arenas. Pursuing a graduate study and improving communication skills are a few of many ways I chose to guarantee my personal and professional success. It wasn’t easy taking the decision to pursue a graduate study, and like all major decisions in one’s life, it comes with challenges, which were of an emotional, financial, and organizational nature in my case. To facilitate success, setting goals is most commonly seen as the way forward. In addition to discussing setting goals and milestones, I will be exposing the challenges met in the road to success and the related strategies to overcome them

“Unleash the power of goal setting.” Setting goals helps our minds to function more efficiently. Once you know where you want to end up, choices become clearer - just do what’s gonna help you reach your goal! “...to get the most out of ourselves, we need exciting reasons to work hard, stay focused, and get out of bed every morning,” is written on page 66. I’ve struggled with what to do, say, and spend my time on often, just like everyone else. Now that I have a goal in mind, I hope that my path becomes clearer, leading me where I want to

It was difficult at first to be friends with all the underclassmen, but I think I’ve adapted. I’m graduating early and plan on registering for classes at one of the local colleges this fall.

Personal goals usually have theirs ups and downs but in the end the satisfaction of completing a goal is unmatchable. Goals are helpful guides in life that steer you towards achievements and goals can shape a person’s life. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life was shaped with his goal for equality of all races. King instead of being known as a baptist minister his goal shaped his legacy and now King is forever remembered as a leader of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. The same can be said with my experience in building my computer which shaped my future forever. My personal achievement of building a computer is responsible for many decisions in life.

Some of my long term professional and personal goals include earning a public relations or communications internship and eventually working in the same field, taking on a steady school year job that is fulfilling and more communications oriented than Domino’s Pizza, studying abroad and traveling, becoming proficient in a second language, and learning more about the research opportunities available to me, or ones that I could create, as a student interested in communications, public relations, and leadership. As I continue to develop socially, emotionally, academically, and professionally, I want to expand upon these goals and challenge myself to expect more from myself.

I am fortunate enough to be friends with a vast majority of the people enrolled at my school, and the opportunity for individuality in the classroom is great. The downside to attending a small school and living in a small community is that there is not much of a learning experience with culture and diversity. In spite of my lack of diversity, I am a very open-minded person who wants to learn about all the new ideas a big campus has to offer; I feel Ohio State is the best university to do so. I am thankful to have grown up in this small town because this deprivation of a wide culture has just made my thrive for education steepen. I have learned about my small towns culture, a thing many do not think to do, yet, I am grateful for, but it is now time for me to move on, so I can broaden my educational and personal experience. People that come from my town do not always leave because they know nothing more than the small culture we have here; I am going to be the

MSU, Mankato has a wide diverse culture. From the day I started here, I have actually felt this university as a home. It’s been almost two years, and this university have turned me into better human being. Though it was very challenging for me to adapt in the first two weeks, but later it went all good through my professor, friends and my mentors. MSU organizes various activities which are fun and interesting. Through these activities, I got chance to make many new friends from different parts of the world. Getting involve into different activities organized by different communities have helped me to learn more about their culture and lifestyle.

My goal is to apply to all my college’s on time, early acceptance. It may not appear as an astonishing goal. However, applying to college is the first step to prospering in a world set for one to fail. Applying to colleges means to me that I’ve triumphed my obstacles - child of divorced Hispanic immigrant and self hate leading to lack of motivation, those are things of the past am I right? Now to reach this goal i had to be motivated and determined, which didn't come easy, however, it was not necessary physically obstacles stopping me,more like the atmosphere in front of me. one of my toughest obstacles is simply trying to motivate myself, to push through the pain and negativity. I was on my own to figure everything out with little to no advice.

At Eldorado, I’m looking forward to the different people and wide variety of them. There are all these social norms that are extremely unfamiliar to me. I hope I’m able to make friends, I don’t really know anyone but they all know each other because they went to Hoover and Eisenhower. It doesn’t help that I’m a little bit socially awkward and shy. I haven’t needed to make friends since kindergarten, when I first started at the elementary school of Eastern Hills.

The one thing that is difficult about coming to college, being around completely new strangers, is that I don’t know everyone. Back at home, I knew almost everyone in my town. I may not have been close with most of the people, but I knew who they were. As I look around this campus, I do not recognize anyone and I can’t help but wonder what kind of person they are.

I believe I completed these goals. I wrote my longest essay in this class and I’m proud that I accomplished that. I would never know what to write before this class to make an essay so long. I wrote all the essays in this class without even worrying that I wouldn’t have enough information. I find it ironic because my biggest concern was I wouldn’t be able to make my essays long enough. The first two essays were tough but I began to transition into the workload that came along with the essay and it just became routine. Transition happened on it own through practicing my writing in my essays. It amazing how much I improved; my first essay I received a seventy-two percent and my last graded one I received an eighty- seven percent. Just between those two essays you can see how my writing skills improved by fifteen percent. Although, my organization skills aren’t the best they have improved so much since the beginning essay. I’ve also learnt all types of writing that can be put into an essay. An

As I attended my sophomore year here, I had no friends. On the first day of school, my first friend was Arianna Passi--who I am absolute best friends with up to this day, my senior year. From there, new friendships with basically half the high school started to form with me and I wasn’t used to being friends with people in different grades, because it wasn’t like that back at home. I realized how much more smaller the school was even getting to

For instance, in a recent movie I seen called, “Finding Forrester,” the character Jamal was faced with many obstacles, trying to prove himself to others. Jamal originally attended a public school in the heart of Brooklyn, and he had been invited to attend a prestigious private high school. Fearing that he may not be accepted by his new fellow peers,

Coming to the University of Washington was the biggest transition I’ve ever made. I come from a small town in eastern Washington that a very small percentage of people have heard of. By small I don’t mean 15,000 people with fast food chains that make up downtown. The current population of Hartline is about 80 people in total. There are no restaurants or even a gas station. The two towns on either side of it, Almira and Coulee City, combine to form a high school with less than a hundred students in it as well. My graduating class was 17 people. This means that we all knew each other, each other’s parents, where everyone lived, and where they went after school. I would not wish it on my worst enemy.

The process of writing this paper helped me define my future goals and objectives. Before I started this assignment, I have no idea what I want to do in the future. I always thought I will just graduate and start working. I originally have no plan of what I am going to do in the future, I kept having the mindset of I can think about this when I’m about to graduate, but through thinking of the goals and objectives, I actually managed to find out what I want to