Reflecting Back Reflection

My last two seasons of football, we went a combined 2-16 from a record standpoint. The seniors and I have put in so much work. We all came in at 6 in the morning during the summer just so we wouldn’t go through another losing season. We knew we were a better team than we were my junior year, and yet we still couldn’t win games. We did so many things right; for example, we led the state in rushing for teams that didn’t make the playoff. All of these thoughts were going through my head while I was bawling in my car after losing yet another game in which we held the lead twice in the last few minutes. The next morning I woke up and thought when is all this hard work going to pay off like I was told.

I was finally so excited and so ecstatic. I finally could prove to the middle school coaches that I was good enough to play, that season the freshman team had better stats than varsity and junior varsity. That really had an effect on my ego, I thought because of that I was better than everyone. I even played on an eighteen year old team when I was 16 and an elite team after that. So highschool season comes along and I don’t make the junior varsity or varsity team and I was really upset. I put so much hard work and determination to play, I put more hardwork than anyone on the team. I remember the varsity coach pulling me aside saying, “Alexis you’re a very strong volleyball player with many talents. But as a coach I can’t split up my varsity girls. We just don’t have room, but if you were at a different school you’d make it.” Also my senior year i got told, “Your stats aren't as a good as the other girl for your position.” They’ve never witnessed me play, how would they

​When it came to sports, especially track, I was a bit of a late bloomer. Middle school was tough on me because I was the person that was good at anything that had to do with athletics in elementary school, but kids started to grow faster than I did and I was no longer the star I used to be. Two minor sports that this affected me in were soccer and basketball. I was no longer the soccer star at my school, but I was still one of the best so this was not that big a deal. Basketball was harder for me to cope with because I went from one of the best to B-team player. These were not my main sports and they were not as important to me so I will not focus on them. The biggest failure in my eyes was the inability to be the fastest kid in school. I

The second season came around and after three days of tryouts, I was named captain for the Junior Varsity team. I was proud of myself and so was the coach with my improvement. Midway through the season, I was moved up to Varsity. It wasn't a big deal for some, but to me it felt like passing your driver's test or getting an A on a project. I felt proud of my accomplishment and I had a new sense of determination to get better. After losing the first round playoff game, I wanted to get even better so I worked hard during the off season day in and day out. Before I knew it, the season was on my doorstep, knocking. We started off rough, losing our first 5 games. I saw that everyone on the team was slowly giving up. We had a team meeting and I gave a speech to motivate the team, which helped.We won the next game. Our confidence went up, but then we lost the next game. For some reason, though, no one seemed to be bothered. We went on a 4 game winning streak after. We made it the playoffs, but we lost in the first around again. After the game, I gave another speech on getting better as a team and holding our heads up high. After the season ended, I noticed coaches were starting to scout

Days and days had passed after my decision to succeed and I was beginning to think I would never win. All of a sudden defeat had come over me and I was feeling down about my abilities. I thought I would never hear a word of acknowledgement from my coaches ever again. Except maybe to tell me I sucked. But then, just like that, it

Football in high school took most of my time. It made me put family and friend’s aside because it was a sport I committed myself to every day. I knew I was not going to be playing at the pro or college level yet I wanted to have a good high school team; unfortunately that didn 't happen. My junior year, we won two games and lost the rest. During my senior year we won four games and lost the rest, but that was two more games won than the previous year. Sometimes I felt like all that work and commitment was not worth it. During the last home game, however my team and I did something outrageous. We proved to all those newspapers, opposing teams, and loyal and un-loyal fans that with hard work and team work, we were able to achieve great things.

Advanced practice nursing (APN) can be loosely defined as an area of nursing in which nurses are required to practice at an advanced level in a specific area of interest. APN extends the boundaries of nursing’s scope of practice and contributes to nursing knowledge, and the development of the profession (Canadian Nurses Association, 2008). In order to become an APN, the nurse must obtain a master’s or doctoral degree from an accredited university in an area of concentration designated for advanced practice nursing. According to Joel (2009), there are currently four major groups of APNs: certified registered nurse anesthetist, certified nurse midwives, clinical nurse specialists, and nurse practitioners. APN focus on

What is the influence one classroom and one teacher can have on a person's writing? The answer being “a lot” because being a part of one English class my sophomore year made it possible for me to understand more about writing and the skills needed to achieve at the process. The teacher that I had such great communication with that year not only made it possible for me to understand what I was doing wrong, but how I could fix my problems. Without changing my writing from the past, I would still be stuck with essays and papers that lack flow and structure. Writing is such a great skill that is strongly needed in the field I wish to study and eventually one day work for in the future. While to some English and writing may not be important,

In the final days of this semester, one tends to look back at the work done over a difficult and long three months. In the case of this English composition class, reflecting on completed essays has allowed me to analyze the development of my writing over the semester. Although this semester consisted of only five essays, it has become apparent to me that my writing has improved in many aspects throughout the semester. One general example of this improvement is the vocabulary, where simple vocabulary in the first essay had become more complex by the final essays. Additionally, I also believe that my writing has become more reflective of my actual voice and opinions, an improvement considering my first essays were best described as vague.

Academically I learned that realizing your problem and hard work will make you successful in that area. Going into junior year I thought I was an Amazing writer but I was not and the only way to prove to myself would be through hard work. I learned that I am very lazy when it comes to school which makes me not to rise up to the full potential I have academically. By overcoming this I learned to work harder and seek help since it only benefits you. This can be reflected in second semester when I got a B in the class I was once struggling in. By this struggle I learned that effort and learning to deal with a struggle properly will help and improve

I have learned so much by this its helped me think and look more into college and even about flying the coop but, for a good reason. I’ve learned to strive for more than what I am expecting and not just settle for that. There’s people that I have heard say “Settle for what you’ve got” and some that say “Don’t push for way more”. I always take the good advice and want more that will make a good effect on my life. I can honestly say that I had a great leader to help me realize and push myself.

My first year playing football didn’t start until my junior year of high school, with that being said this was not my first year being on the football team., The first year of highschool , Freshmen year,I joined the team for two reasons, the first was to have an outlet for my anger, and the second was because of coach Baca asked me to join (well didn’t really ask me but told me)..) Every day freshmen year Ii was at practice doing my best just to play in a couple of games., Ii knew Ii wasn’t very good, but Ii just wanted to be able to play in a few games. That year Ii didn’t play in a single game. Ssophomore year Ii didn't plan on joining the team again because Ii was still frustrated about not playing in a single game the year before, but

Before this assigned project I felt like I had a rather decent understanding of PreK and how it is regulated and governed. Our group was extremely fortunate to have Sarah’s knowledge and expertise in this area. In the time we had to discuss the ForwARd report, I learned a lot from her experience. I had always felt like there was a disconnect between Early

I thought this class would be easier than it ended up being. You warned us of this on the first day of class, and you were certainly right. Fortunately, this resulted in me actually improving my public speaking skills, which I will certainly need as I go through my career. Most of the public speaking I’d done before this class involved one-on-one, pitch style speaking. This one done at robotics competitions trying to present our project to judges. While this was certainly useful experience, it was very on the fly. It did not prepare me for this class I well as I thought it would. The class succeeded at its goal of making me improve my public speaking skills, and this improvement happened in three main areas; my engagement with the audience, my anxiety, and my understanding of an outline. Given these improvements, I feel much better prepared to handle public speaking experiences I will have in the future.

The idea of technology taking over the world has been popular amongst TV shows, including a show called Black Mirror which was released on Netflix in 2011. In the show’s episode, “White Christmas”, two men, who worked together, start to talk about their pasts, specifically their hamartias. One of the men, Matt, shares his story of how he would help males get dates by using technology to see and hear what these men do. He watched one of his “clients” die from a female drugging him. The second job Matt spoke about was of a new technology he placed in homes that allowed a person to take a piece of him/herself and put it into a pod, called a Cookie, that would allow a mental copy of themselves to take care of all of their needs in life. The second man, Joe, told his own story before coming to work with Matt. His story consists of him falling in love with a woman, her getting pregnant, and then she blocks him, which also blocks the baby. He becomes obsessed with trying to see the child. After his ex love interest dies in a fatal accident, he was unblocked from the child, but then later learned the child was not his. In a rage, he killed the child's new caretaker, her grandfather, and left her alone to die. Through telling the story, Joe admits to the crime he committed, and then it is revealed that Matt is using the technology, from his second job, to get Joe to admit to the crime, while Matt also pays for his crime using surveillance and was blocked by everyone in society. In