Personal Narrative: Working With My Education

We were outside the dark unpleasant locker room, filled with smelly body odor and dirty clothes. Kenny sat in a rusty metal chair brainstorming with his two friends, Briana and Gregory. They had grown up with Kenny; they had been through the good and bad with him. Kenny was 5’11 and Gregory was about the same height. Kenny had brown hair with clear blue eyes. Gregory had brown eyes with black hair. Brianna was 5’6 with long blonde hair and bright green eyes. “I don't get it, they beat us every year in the lacrosse finals!” yelled Kenny. “C’mon Kenny, maybe this year you’ll beat those guys.” Gregory said, hopping Kenny would cheer up. “Kenny, You're a great player and we all know that; You've made the all-star team and have won many awards.”

Fortunately for me my personal, professional, and education goals is one in the same. My goal is to one day preach and teach the word of God. I must first equip myself with the skills necessary to bring forth God’s word. I understand being able to be an effective communicator and a critical thinker are some skills that I will need in order to be successful in my ministry. Being a responsible leader is very important in today’s society. I want to not only a have church of my own, but go aside the four walls so I can be a global citizen with the gifts God has gave me spreading Christianity through the world.

classes to support my own learning and looking for the right resources. Supportive is that my husband can teach me the language without attending a language class and that I can learn and improve by talking to him. I am planning to learn once a week for two hours.

I had discovered years ago that Writing is therapeutic and cleansing, and as critical thinker writing pushed my thought far and width which allowed me to dig deep within me and pull out the right information out of my head. However, one of the problem I had earlier was to convey the information effectively so that my reader could get the message that I intended to pass on. Thus, as I take different writing classes such as EN 101, EN 102, and Sociology intensive Writing I worked toward correcting that weakness that and becomes better as the each semester go by. Therefore, Critical Thinking is no different from the my other classes I know my weakness, and my strenght in writing, and if I do the works that is required of me

When I was a kid, grandpa would tell me that an education is the key to success. He would say that the day at which you stop learning is the day at which you pass away. I have pondered this statement over the years and I have to say he was right. I am looking to pursue a Master of Education in Adult and Lifelong learning to help better educate my clientele. Instead of teaching in the classroom right out of college, I went the route of research agriculture. What I found was that even in research agriculture I was teaching. Then I changed jobs to a Field Service Representative and I found I was still teaching farmers new ways to manage the new to Arkansas crop: edamame. When going back to research agriculture in the Extension Entomology

While in my quest for higher education, I found that there are a number of majors to apply for and many different occupations. I went through multiple career changes such as being a police officer, a lawyer, a nurse etc. But one career stood out the most and it was nursing. I believe that nursing stuck with me so well because I have always had this positive attitude where I could help people in and out my community. Throughout my teen years I have taken it upon myself to give charity, I went out into with my hometown with a few of my family members and gave a full hot meal to many of the homeless people. I have always been a positive person who always has a smile on my face and always laughing.

Throughout my early childhood, I knew I wanted to change lives for the better. I have always contemplated on being a doctor since the age of three and decided to be an actress/singer at age six. Since then I have worked hard to maintain good grades and up until now I have worked relentlessly to maintain good grades, this all payed off when I was accepted into a university that would give me the opportunity to follow my dreams. To be able to accomplish my dreams, I have studied, auditioned,and performed to get prepared and be in the place i’m in today. If it wasn't for my determination,persistent,realization,and hard work, I wouldn't be where I am today. Through countless rehearsals, I was able to accomplish my dream of learning how to sing,

I am a first generation student and spring semester is my second semester in college. I got no help in the beginning of fall semester in the process of class selection. I got in math class late and was unable to catch up to class that lead me to drop the class. But this semester, I got all the opportunity to get involve and to pursue my dream. I am working hard as possible to do well on every class and outside of the class. I am also involve in community, representing community throughout state being a youth leader and doing volunteer in my free time. This summer I am planning to make a transformative summer taking a class from world most prestigious university. I hope the class I take this summer will help me get ready to pursue my goal of

Who I am as a learner, I am as a learner and a global citizen as a learner I'm a communicator. I like to talk to people when I work and stuff as a global citizen, I am a person who likes to help people out when it comes to doubting yourself or to believing I want to help people through tough times and having fun because some people don't know how to have a pleasant time and are kinda boring and they just sit inside all day and play video games and I do also play video games but some kids sit and side all day so I try to hang out with them and stuff.

There is one major skill and experience that I discovered I had. It was junior year and I was in trigonometry taking a test, after each question I had an uneasy feeling in my gut. I felt that I was going to flunk the test and get an F on the test. The day passed and I learned that I got a ninety-percent on the test. From that day forward I learned that I should go with my gut. I learned that I could trust my mind with what I was doing. The knowledge is there, all I needed was to apply the knowledge. Throughout my eighteen years of living, I have learned that life is full of decisions. Learning that I can trust my knowledge to succeed, I have discovered that making decisions is starting to come easier to me. To myself, learning this skill is

Throughout my educational journey, I have tussled with many elections that have assayed my personal values, beliefs, moral and priorities. My first encounter with an ethical dilemma was in the fifth grade. Naturally, like most fifth graders, I was quite content with being at school; I actually loved my teacher and had many friends. I never gave much thought to the fact that all my friends (and school faculty) looked like me until the day Suhail was introduced to the class. Suhail and her family had recently moved to Florida from New Jersey (they were originally from Dominican Republic) so that her parents could pursue the "American Dream". With each passing day, a different student from the class would join in on the teasing and bulling of Suhail; they would shout racist slurs at her and tell her to get on her raft and paddle back to Cuba. I never

I know that I am a combination of a visual, auditory, writing/reader learner. So I learn best when I write things down, says the words multiple times, rereading things several times, when I interact with other people, and ask questions about the certain subject . One thing that I notice when I learn is that I learn best when I repeat things over and over again. When I recapitulate my brain makes multiple connections to the information and help me remember the information even better.

My graduate educational experience is far more different then undergraduate experience, because as a graduate student I’m more self-directed and self-motivated. While attending Saint Leo University as undergraduate student I didn’t put in the time and planning required having successful undergraduate program. Allow things in my life and having a lay back attitude toward things. Now starting my graduate studies, I have put more planning, time management skills, and being proactive in how will accomplish my assignment, class reading materials require for me to successful complete my graduate degree.

“I am still learning,” that is what the 87 year old Michelangelo declared, but what was he learning? A countless number of facts? How to be a great artist? No, he was making himself into a better, well-rounded person. That is what a liberal arts education provides an individual; because a liberal arts education is not only about learning facts, but becoming a well-rounded individual, in doing so, making the world a better place. Loras’s four dispositions—active learners, reflective thinkers, ethical decision-makers, and responsible contributors to professions, societies, and religious communities—make this feasible.

The current me right now is just your average high school male, but if for the sake of contempt, you were to compose a story with me in the lead role it would certainly be quite a tragic one. If you were to compare the current me to the plump elementary brat many years ago, obviously I’ve transformed due to the replacement of cells and puberty, but that would be a physical change. However, if you were to contrast my former and current mental state, it would be extraordinarily disparate.