Personal Experience : My Best Friend

In my first essay “The Shaping of My Character” it was a narrative so, it was easier to write this because it was all about my experiences. I wrote it on the Golden Rule and how just witnessing cruelty let me know, that wasn’t how I wanted to be. The rule facilitated the women I am today. The essay made me think about a friend I haven’t thought about in years. Annie’s situation helped me follow the rule “treat others how you want to be treated.” Looking back at the essay I could have elaborated on some parts. Development is a fault of mine; I will keep working on that. My topic sentence could’ve been better.

We are interested in learning more about you and the context in which you have grown up, formed your aspirations, and accomplished your academic successes. Please describe the factors and challenges that have most shaped your personal life and aspirations. How have these factors helped you to grow? (800)

One of my personal experiences that I had was when my family decided to move from New Jersey to Florida. I never planned on moving with them but my mother basically forced me into moving with them. It wasn’t really all that moving stuff because the new house was actually pretty nice, it was just I had all my friends there and I was doing well in school. Nothing I said convinced my mother so after a week of packing we was off to Florida. The first week being there was a horrible week. Nothing was going right for me, I missed the school bus for a whole week, dropped my milk on my new shoes, and tripped over nothing in lunch. It was just trying to move back but parents always have this life lesson speech about trying to make new friends and try to get used to being here until we move again. It’s been about a month since we moved to Florida and I met about zero friends but I got used to living here since I’ve found something that interested me as an after school hobby and that was fishing. There’s barley any lakes or ponds in New Jersey so fishing wasn’t really something you do as a time waster. I usually fished right after I got home but on that day it was rainy and it wasn’t really a good time to fish so I just decided to practice my free shots until it started raining hard. I think I was outside for about 20minutes and suddenly a couple kids from my new school asked if they can shoot

What I found to be interesting is, I am glad we had to do this assignment so I could introduce you to someone I called a friend. I learned that it is not easy to write in the third person for me.

The first thing that I resonated with, and my classmates felt the same, was Yasmeen’s story. Many of my classmates and I felt very strongly for Yasmeen and her situation. She is so young and yet she has lost both parents, in the midst of a legal battle for custody

To begin, one quote that stood out to me was, “At International High, there are more than four hundred walking memoirs waiting to be translated.” (p. 39) This made me realize that all the students that attend International High have been through some sort of struggle or event that lead them to come to a place like that. Ann was trying to get her students to answer the prompt: What is your personal power, but got answered as what is the worst

"We should live to give to others, rather than, live to receive from others,” are the words that my wise seventh grade English teacher repeated in class, while nudging at my chair to sit up and pay attention. Not knowing these simple words would impact and change my perception on life in many ways. First, I have learned to be dedicated and to never give up. Second, I have learned to have determination to walk through the wilderness, with uncertainty and to rely on God. Third, I have learned to have perseverance to push through the unfortunate events that have occurred during my academic career. I appreciate the reader of my essay, for giving my application a chance, to provide a binocular view of my individuality. Welcome to a brief story of

Throughout this course, I think that the most provocative topic that was covered were the last two pieces: Lars and the Real Girl and Against Empathy, by Paul Bloom. The issue that was brought up was the topic of the amount of effort that should be put into the lives around us. These two pieces pose opposite opinions on what is the correct approach to this problem. This convergence of ideas has also brought the definition of what an empathetic reader is to mind along with its limitations.

Since this assignment, not much has changed about me as a student. I find that if I am engaged with the material of classes and with my classmates I will have a lot to discuss in class. My Psychology of Gender class further proved to me that professors who are very open to different ideas and veering off the planned topic promote the greatest learning and reflecting. I was able to reflect about societal issues and norms more in the class than any other class before it because of the great atmosphere that the professor

This semester has been emotionally, mentally and physically taxing; the topics (suicide, homicide, sexual abuse, death, intimate partner violence, etc.) in class have been exceedingly bleak and distressing. Each week has presented its emotional and mental challenges, some more difficult than others (child sexual abuse), but the information gained will be invaluable in my counseling career. The emotional strain and exhaustion that accompanied the task of processing this information, processing my feelings and thoughts, and practicing self-care were well worth the outcome. As mentioned previously, all of this information and insight gained will be essential in my counseling career, but also the habits that I have developed, as they relate to

This empirical method of maturity is basic, but it’s a strong statement. For this reason, I apologized to them. They didn’t forgive me right away, but as the days passed, they eventually forgave me. Either that, or the fact that they forgot about the whole incident. Just because of one incident, I learned a whole lot. All of this started because I wasn’t being careful. But since I learned a lot, I’m more careful with what I do. This experience, you could say, “haunts me” but in a good way. This reminds me of what to do, so that nothing like this incident would happen again. I’m very sure that everyone has done something that they regret doing. Those experiences is what makes us the people we are, in-terms of being responsible. If those experiences never happened, then this world would be full of carelessness. In conclusion, every mistake that you do, happens for a reason. The reason being that you can learn from them. This incident helped me understand that I’m that kind of person that learns from mistakes. Without my mistakes, I won’t learn anything. I would feel like I’m perfect, when the truth is, nobody’s perfect. I’ve told my story, now it’s time to tell

I began asking her about her experience in mentoring the contestants throughout the contest. Her answer was motherly. She expressed that she felt good helping them out, encouraging them to come out of their shell and to really push them towards their dreams. She mentioned her past and how she wished that someone did that for her, then explaining how Acuvue were really sweet to her and how they are the best contacts in the world.

What I feel were the most important topics of Chapter 7 that I had learned were the defensive and supportive communication climates. As I am naturally a defensive person, these defensive and supportive climates allowed myself to evaluate how I perceive information as well as how to properly communicate controversial messages. I feel as I had learned mostly how to respond non defensively when I am being evaluated. For example, I would naturally give an excuse if I am doing poorly, however, I must take in the evaluation and work towards improving myself in that area. When I receive constructive criticism that is supportive, it would motivate myself to try harder to improve myself in that area. Also, in regards to evaluating a peer, to support

Gruell asked the class to do. With your introverted personality, I would’ve expected for you to refuse and keep everything bottled up. However, you found the courage to speak about your experiences because you knew that someone would hear your own story and actually care. Eventually your story and everyone in the classroom was spread around the world and everyone knew the struggles you went through and that is absolutely inspiring. Hearing and reading your story made me feel privileged because you struggled with so much and yet I felt like I was a living royalty compared to your life. I started appreciating the small things like food and shelter that you struggled to find after you were kicked out of your house. I have found the ability to give you the utmost respect because as a teenager you struggled with gang activities and being homeless. Yet, you fell in love with writing and that love lead you to be able to graduate high school, which you thought, would be

The personal story which I told last week meant a lot for me because it is a story I have been wrestling with because it was something I have been dealing with majority of my first year here at UNC. The story of Brandy breaking my trust and our friendship caused me to re-evaluate most of my friendships and caused me to be angry with myself and those around me for some time. In the last few weeks I grasp the idea in which I couldn’t blame my previous friends because of a betrayal of our friendship, but this betrayal did reshape any relationship I will create throughout my life. I know now to trust with ease and that if I don’t want something so major to spread and cause chaos in my life I must either keep it to myself or only share with people like Mahogany, whom I have trusted for a while in my life. This incident in my life taught me a lot of lessons, which is why I consider this a pivotal