Personal Reflection

self-reflect on who I am as a person as well as opening me up to more career goals that match my

This reflection will discuss personal diffidence and how it has influenced my academic studies, including my practice within placement settings. Gibbs reflective cycle (Gibbs, 1998) has been utilised as it illustrates a clear structure for the process of reflection. To conclude this reflection will draw together the themes which have emerged and highlight a clear action for future learning that will be used in order to enhance my future practice.

When I arrived at the agency, the room was crowded and many people were waiting for their turned to be served at one of the several tables. The person that I interviewed for this assignment was Emily Hampshire, the coordinator of one of a program called 180. Emily has been with the agency for over a year and is currently the coordinator of the agency’s newest program. This program is a gang prevention and intervention program and was created for the local at-risk youth in an effort to prevent gang related crimes and help youth “change their life around”, as Emily mentioned. This program was created in collaboration with the local Police Department and the Mount Diablo Unified School District and in

To do my research I had to have many participants to correctly do my research. To start my research, I began by researching strategies and completing a literature review on the strategies to figure out what is important to aid me in reach the process target of giving effective feedback to the students. After figuring out what feedback strategies I wanted to research, I then use the strategies during the ten-week internships thought whole class instructional lesson three times and also providing feedback to students' one-on-one or in small group settings through my internship. I used the chosen strategies in multiple ways to make the best use of my ten-weeks there to make the best use of my time there, I gave oral

During my first year of high school, I was held to a higher standard, than my previous

Throughout the semester, the most significant learning outcome that I acquired the most knowledge of it, was to undertake a self-regulated project to address my own linguistic need by myself. I learned to focus on one specific project, that I believed that it could have been helpful for me to practice and improve my English writing. Since the start of the semester, I was always understanding well the instructions given to us for all our tasks, such as the Personal Project Design or Annotated Bibliography.

So, I don’t actually like remembering this one experience due to how I get all sad and broken inside once the subject is brought up once and a while by some non-autistic like me wanting to either get on my nerves, or just needs to complete their assignment for their current class. And thanks to many, many people that I’ve known that have pressured me to explain the aftermath of this incident, I said that I’ll give in to that once that certain time comes. And that time is now.

“I plan to give members of my committee more control over their initiatives,” I said before the senate body after my appointment as the new Academic Affairs Chair within the Student Government Association. Forever encapsulated into the meeting minutes was my bold idea: the Renaissance of the Academic Affairs Committee.

Growing up, I was never good at writing and struggled with it. In eighth grade, we had to write a paper on our superhero and I wrote about my mom. I saw everyone wrote two or three pages while I wrote one. I felt a bit weird about that and I knew it was not a good paper. Prior to sophomore year of high school, we had to read a book called Jane Eyre. I did not like reading and read only half the book and just looked up summaries online. I had Miss Figueroa for an English teacher that year, and I was so scared and nervous because she was a difficult teacher. We discussed the book, and then we wrote a rough draft essay about it. In October, we had to take a P.O.W. Exam on this book, which had three essay topics to choose from. I remember my rough draft was the same exact topic as the one on the exam, and I thought this is going to be easy. A few weeks later we got our results back, and it required a three to pass and I got lower than that. I made mistakes on grammar, my paragraphs were not consistent, and my introduction and thesis were not being well- written. This made me so sad because I could not graduate high school without passing this exam. We had to write in-class essay on novels we read and essays at home. I remember struggling to come up with topics to write about and forming ideas. It took me so long to finish these essays, and they were never well written. I was never good with timed essay tests as I felt like I was being rushed and had no time to check my work or

I believe everything that happens in life has its own purpose for occurring. Whether we truly know the reasons or not, God does. One day you could think you are having the worst day ever and that you just want to give up on life, then the next day things could be completely reversed. God gives us hard times to make us feel stronger and help prepare us for more challenging events in the future.

I was shown many types of different ways people use items or things in life to learn. I was shown my own path today by taking a survey and reading about different types of intelligence. Visual learning seems to be my cup of tea. I learn best through demonstration. When I watch, someone working on cars; I can easily do the same on my car. I am a quick learner as long as it is demonstrated. Math is another example of this. I watch my instructor do a math problem on the Smart Board and now I can do that math problem easily. The types of intelligence I went over today made me realize my personal strengths. Besides my strongest learning ability, there are others that pertain to me as well. I use the logical-mathematical intelligence is a very good learning tool. Functions in math are a very good example of this, getting shown functions in the class are very easy to pick up on.

An idea that makes me excited about learning is vulnerability. We experience fear and shame, when we don’t have a sense of belonging. However, this helps us learn from our experiences, change, and develop as stronger people. It is not others who put us down, but rather ourselves by constantly thinking we’re not fit to complete a certain task. I remember that after I got kicked out of my house due to family strife and started living with roomers, I felt embarrassed. Questions constantly hoovered my mind. What would happen if my friends wanted to come over? What kind of household must they think that I grew up in as my own family members to betrayed me? Would they even think that I am even of their standard? From this point onward, this made me think about how the human brain works in general. Why do we care about what others think of us? Why are we wired to want to feel accepted? What causes us to cry or smile? How are our emotions processed? How are other individual's actions and words so powerful that they bring forth an immediate reaction on our side? Biology teaches us about complex human body functions, how life came to be beginning from the origins and evolved over these years through multiple stages of growth, and how organisms function and interact with each other. That's why I want to major in biology, it allows me to gain the answers to all my questions.

Interning with Dr. Bunn and John Manor was a wonderful experience which I was able to learn an exponential amount of information. It also gave me a great opportunity to put my foot in the door by meeting professors that I potentially could be working alongside with at the Physical Therapy school. I was able to work with the Campbell athletes and test them on the 3D optical motion capturing system and it gave me the opportunity to develop new hands on and organizational skills I have yet learned in my undergraduate experience. John was able to teach me surface anatomy and dynamometry skills that I will not learn until graduate school, this puts me at a great advantage when I continue my education in Physical Therapy school. I also learned how to operate the motion capturing system which was extremely challenging, this worked to my advantage because now I now hold a skill that very few undergraduate students have obtained. Lastly, I was able to study about capturing, tracking, processing, and analyzing data. By applying what I learned in Research Methods, I turned the statistics I collected and transformed it into a poster presentation. In November, I was able to present it at Campbell University’s Academic Symposium and I also plan on presenting it at multiple events in the future.

From a young age, I knew how I wanted everything that concerned me. When I had to do something, whether it be an assignment, task, or chore, I knew how I wanted it done. It was frustrating as I could not portray what I was thinking to anyone else. Nevertheless, I didn’t stop trying. It became easier when I grew older and I learned how to research, generate lists, and create vision boards. When I found out about this method of communication from my mother, I fell in love with it. She taught me to prepare, and moreover to be proud of productivity. I applied everything I had learned when the “new” iPad 4 came out four years ago. I believe in the power of planning.

…The human body's complex anatomy is a phenomenal mechanism. After witnessing my grandfather’s health deteriorating due to a heart attack and cancer of the kidneys, I became aware of how patients and their families can be affected. This made me appreciate how a doctor and their team play such an important part in helping to relieve a patient.