Reflection About Myself

The areas of productiveness in this session for me included the paraphrasing and minimal encouragers. Throughout this session I felt that my paraphrasing was clear and concise. It allowed the client to think about what he had said, while being able to provide me with feedback and allowed for the conversation to flow naturally.

The question “Who are you?” and "What is your philosophy" are easily two of the hardest questions to ask oneself. I think that the answer to those questions is always changing as an individual grows and progresses through life. Who we think we are might look one way in high school, another in college, and change again when we retire. As the answer to this question changes with growth, personal goals, strengths, weaknesses, and understandings will also change. It is important that an individual reflect on the self in every stage of life to understand themselves.

When I was at a young age I used to love writing with all my heart. I would write only about fantasy because it was my own way of getting out of reality. When I wrote my fantasy stories I would go so deep into my writing that I would not notice anything else other than the words flowing through my mind as I write. As I grew older my writing changed. I started to write about my everyday experiences and my thoughts all on one paper. I found this method to be relaxing and I felt at ease when I begin writing.

As I was reading this book, I kept having awe moments because I have either seen the material covered in real time or have thought about it. Out of the five career strategy components, the two that stood out for me were extending experiences and networking/connecting. Reflecting on my educational and professional career, these two themes have been the most relevant.

Before attending the University of Rochester, I had never been exposed to a different culture other than my own. Actually, I had never been exposed to a demanding educational system, not even time management. Every single thing that I have experience since I step a foot in Rochester itself is new for me. Consequently, the CAS 145 course provided me with support which allowed me to be more confident in myself, it permitted me to view my surroundings and realize that I am not the only human being who comes with a weak educational background and is trying to find a rhythm in order to succeed in a prestigious university.

I was a student at Prince Nora University (PNU) in the College of Education in Saudi Arabia. Most of my classes at PNU seemed challenging because of the limited number of qualified professors. In my first half of my study, we had foreign male and female professors from Egypt. The teaching methodology mainly used memorization and there were neither time to ask questions during the lessons nor time for discussions. I would copy a lot of notes after which the professor attended one or two lessons briefly to go over the notes and to give further assignments.

When meeting others, the observations I make are immediate. I often assign traits and characteristics to them without being conscious of the fact that I am doing so. How I react to them – and whether or not I desire another interaction with them – is dependent on these assignments. The characteristics I admire in myself, and the attributes that I observe in others form these assessments. The Role Construct Repertory Test allowed me to recognize what traits I value in others, understand my personal constructs, and given me insight into my own cognitions.

When starting this project about reflecting on my best self. I thought that I was going to know what my family and others would say about me when question, but I was very surprised and also very pleased with what they had to say. I was able to talk to people I haven’t spoken to in a while.

Before taking Western Heritage: The Humanities, I had only taken general writing courses WRT 110 and 111 at the University of Hartford. Those classes taught me basic stylistic ways of writing and expressing my opinion. I thought that this course, one in which we turn in written responses on various texts would be similar, but that didn’t turn out to be the case. This class made me shift the way I write, more deeply analyze texts to uncover the author's meanings, and open up my perspectives on various worldly topics.

Over the remaining course of clinicals, I have continued to search for advancements in my work ethic. Along the way, new strengths and weaknesses were found to build myself upon. Some of the newly acquired strengths I developed would be using the digital panel and system more efficiently, observing and retaining technique factors used, and remembering multiple patient history over a long period of time (Rouse,2016). These strengths play a significant role in what I have learned throughout my clinical journey at Advanced Imaging Concepts. Each one of my strengths have enlightened me to become a better future radiologic technologist. Without my clinical instructor and coordinator, I would not have found my weaknesses. Now, I have created several action plans used to solve these problems tactically. With their guidance, I have noticed my weaknesses are not knowing what confirms a good radiograph in regards of anatomy of interest, marker placement, and collimation to reduce patient dose.

From the test, I realized I have a strong personality in agreeableness and sociability. Before the test, I did not realize that I had this strength and, therefore, it was underutilized. The sociability aspect will create better working relations with fellow students during the class group discussion and with the coworker, this will be extended in the future career. Additionally, I realized I have low emotional stability. This means I handle the situation based on the emotion and I am easily overpowered by emotion when making decisions (Phillipy, 2010).

The focus and objective of this paper I believe can be summed up in one quote “you learn from the past, live in the present, and prepare for the future” – Thomas S. Monson. While writing this reflection, we are judging our pasts, thus hopefully learning from them, and applying their lessons to our lives today. Therefore, while applying its lessons into our lives we are preparing for the future and how these lessons will affect us down the road. While brainstorming and reflecting about this assignment I was able to pinpoint specific moments in my working life that have lead me to where I am today. During the remainder of this personal reflection I will be sharing some of the watershed moments that have led me on my current working journey.

Throughout the past year, I’ve built many relationships that have allowed me to reflect on not only myself, but also the work I want to do and what my role can be in that work. These relationships have occurred with my peers, upperclassmen Civic Scholars, the community partner I worked work with, the students I worked with, and Civic House staff.

The interpretation of life as a game, a constant quest for survival, full of demands one is summoned to endure, and that one may not quit playing, has been vastly used by the entertainment industry. That is, thanks to its rentability and ease to grow in empathy with the spectator, over his inner desire to leave the natural world and follow the hero’s archetype, or perhaps, that used to be my condescending mindset. But, if there was something I came to learn from the following episode, which the media indeed doesn't take in account, was the fragility of the subject matter and the boundaries of one’s ability to act upon his actions and consequent readiness to brace for the aftermath.

Throughout my life, compassion has always been a huge part of my personality. This trait has been constant across many situations in my life, and there are several theories that explain how this trait may have developed to be such a huge part of who I am. Hans Eysenck’s biological approach may say this trait was acquired genetically. Albert Bandura would take a different approach, claiming that my compassion is a learned product influenced by my environment and my thoughts.