Reflection Paper On Survivor

Starting college as a Freshman is exciting; it is also unnerving. The comfort of everything I know is going to disappear and it will be time to grow up and face reality. However, reality isn’t doomed to be negative if I prepare for my future and

Starting college in August of 2008 was completely different than what I was expecting. My parents loaded up my car and sent me on my way to gain a college degree and experience life on my own, but looking back over the situation, I tend to ask myself numerous times do I think I was ready for college and the responsibilities that were to come along with it. Each time the answer was no. Being the first person in my family to go off to college away from home, I had no idea what to expect, or how to handle the things that come along with college life. Needless to say, it took me several major changes and me leaving my first university and transferring to one at home for me to get a handle of the situation.

The book The Prince of Los Cocuyos can relate to my transition into college. The first time Richard Blanco came to America and felt out of place. College is all about experinces and getting to know yourself and learning who you really are. It is hard leaving high school and having to transition to college. Being used to teachers reminding you about assingments to now going online and having to remind yourself. As I begin to start my college experience I thought college would be easier no one telling you what you can and cant do, but its really not easier it might honestly be harder. Having to do so many assignments all at once. I feel like college is all about self motivation and being able to push yourself to work hard. Which I actually am

Boasting more than thirty seasons and fifteen years of broadcasting, Survivor continues to reign supreme over the reality television genre. Even skeptics of this genre can admit that Survivor is a massive standout in a heap of inadequate television shows. In this current era of oversaturation in the television world, it is Survivor’s complex premise, controversial drama and competitive nature that elevate it above the rest.

At the beginning of a “Survivor” season, all the contestants are dropped into an unknown environment. This is how I felt when I started my undergraduate experience. I came in unaware of my surroundings, plopped in a state I had only spent about a week in before starting college. I wanted to go away to college, but when I got there, I knew no one and was alone. Picking a college 600 miles from my lifelong hometown quickly started to feel like a mistake. My only goal during my first semester was surviving. I had to make friends, do my own laundry and manage my time without supervision. The initial culture shock I felt dissipated and eventually disappeared with the passing semesters. My sophomore and junior years were aimed at finding and focusing my academic passions. Apparently, the average college student changes majors two times. I boosted this average by changing four times within those two years. I went from open option to psychology to child, adult, and family services to women studies, back to psychology, which finally stuck. I also ultimately

Reading the novel Lone Survivor has shown me many ways from sticking to your roots and what brotherhood actually means. So far of what I have read in Lone Survivor is about a group of four guys who are highly classified Navy SEALS. Meaning they’re the best you can find in the United States military, or even in the world. Being a SEAL takes more determination than anything. They say you can’t break a SEAL for a reason. The SEALS are one of the major reasons why the United States military is so freighting to mess with. The author of the novel, Marcus Luttrell was in Afghanistan along the Pakistani boarder with Mike Murphy, Mathew “Axe” Axelson, and Danny Dietz. They were on a scouting mission for a Taliban target Ahmad Shad, who they’ve been looking to take out for years. On their scout they ran into goat herders who they thought were innocent citizens. Soon after they let the herders go, they all had an entire Taliban military ready to fight. While Marcus was bravely serving our country, he was also searching for his own identity and love for his family and country.

When I started my freshman year of highschool, I was extremely lost. I grew up in a household with just one college graduate as

“As many as one in three first-year students won't make it back for sophomore year” (“Freshmen retention rate”). It just so happened that I followed that statistic. Many colleges do not care much if students drop out or flunk out once their tuition checks have been cashed (Los Angeles Times).Growing up in a very strict household and attending private Catholic school, I was ready to spread my wings and fly. I was looking forward to that independence, my own rules and living on my own. I was enthusiastic to get started on my college journey. In my mind, I was about to live the dream. I would experience my own place to live, no rules, and get to hang out with friends! Oh, and college, too. I was not prepared to be so distracted

As my high school years were coming to an end, all anyone could talk about was college. Where they were going, what state they would be a resident in, and what they would major in, what campus they would be visiting that weekend. I, however, thought I had it all under control. I thought that when my Senior year came by it would all fall in to place. That's crazy, right? The shows that I grew up watching did not have to deal with this. That is when expectation went out the window and reality kicked me in the butt. I had five months left to start applying to colleges and looking in to different campuses that offered my dental hygiene program. Lucky for me, my community college had a two year program.

My personality was stretched to its maximum that mid-way through the week, I had been with at least other person 24/7 and I desperately NEEDED some Me Time. I also felt homesick since the longest I'd been away from home was 3 days and 2 nights, never 6 days and 5 nights. I went to that program enthusiastically, and because of my motivation to absorb as much as I could, I made a lot of friends and learn new things to help me being leader and applying for college next year. This experience has put me in perspective of the saying, "Being out of your comfort zone makes you

“Anything in life worth doing is worth overdoing. Moderation is for cowards.”( Berg, Lone Survivor). Being a soldier holds America together because of their courage without them, Americans would be buried six feet under. Different branches protect this country and fight through the battle of the enemy. Even if it means dying for this country, they will protect it with their souls if they have to. Navy Seals has gone through a brutal thirty months training to prepare for any war that I have ever seen. Lone Survivor is an inspirational movie which explains the philosophy of never able to give up on something or someone, life decision and, do not choose a book by its cover.

In the aftermath of traumatic events, many survivors experience a sense of responsibility and blame, questioning why they lived while others didn’t. This pervasive phenomenon is known as “survivor’s guilt.” Survivor’s guilt, (as well as PTSD), is associated with the recollection of certain traumatic or life-changing events (Lynch and Johnson 45). Survivor’s guilt and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) have impacted our society’s individuals greatly.

I think that the amount of money given out will be based on their experience. The more Traumatizing their experience the more they will get. If they were abused physically, psychologically, emotionally, and/or sexually. Abuse damages them inside and out, it makes them mentally and physically weaker. Most kids were getting beaten, forced to eat rotten food, widespread of hunger and thirst, bondage and confinement and forced to do labor. Students were forbidden to speak their language instead of God’s language (English) or practice their own culture, and were often punished for doing so. Other experiences reported from Survivors of residential schools include mental abuse, severe punishments, overcrowding, use of students in medical experiments,

Every soldier in the ARMY of the United States of America knows the following phrase from the Soldier’s Creed: “I will always place the mission first” (ARMY.mil). The aforementioned is arguably the most powerful line in the Soldier’s Creed and exists in different variants across the branches of the military. The life of a soldier is not an easy one, so it is to be expected that there will be times that a soldier will have to make difficult decisions. Sometimes these decisions will dictate between life and death. However, the Soldier’s Creed and other oaths alike, are promises not only to one’s country and those serving beside you, but also an agreement with oneself to carry the weight of what it takes to fulfill his/her country. In the movie, Lone Survivor, four Navy Seals made the decision to spare the lives of three men which ultimately resulted in the death of three of the four Seals and 16 rescuers. I believe that the decision they made contradicted the idea of “mission first” and a more aggressive decision should have been elected.

Throughout my lifetime I have listened to people reflect back on their college experiences and explain how college is supposed to be “the best experience of your life.” The summer after my senior year I use to try and imagine what my first semester was going to be like based on what I had heard people talk about in the past. After my first semester at NC State I realized that I couldn’t fully understand what college was like until I experienced it for myself. My first couple of weeks at Ohio State was rough and really tested my strength (mental and physical). I faced challenges and obstacles that I had never heard about in those past college experience conversations. All of a sudden there was no one to get me out of