Self Reflection Essay

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.

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On Sunday, December 3, 2017, I delivered my first oral presentation on Janette, a peer in my Communicating Effectively course at Manhattanville College. The objective of the project was to familiarize yourself with a classmate, ask/answer questions provided by Professor Brosnan, and then share the knowledge you gained about the individual in a two-minute presentation. The presentation was required to introduce the classmate, what graduate program they are pursuing, why he/she is in the program, their long-term career goal(s), current occupation, favorite class, and an interesting fun fact. The oral presentations were done in the classroom without any visual aid, allowing you to use notes if preferred. By analyzing my 1 minute and 25 second presentation using the “7 Step Presentation Process” I uncovered my strengths and weaknesses as a presenter.

It would be amazing to be accepted into EcoQuest, and I hope that after you read this you think it would be amazing to have me in EcoQuest too. In the application form you asked everyone applying to comment on these things: our relationship with nature; our relationship with other students; our ability to work independently and make responsible decisions; how we maintain a healthy & active lifestyle; and our academic effort. In the following paragraphs I will address these items.

One of my biggest strengths is working well under a lot of stress and pressure. The more commitments I have, the better I seem to work. Being an RA, being on CAB exec board and being in other clubs around campus forces me to have deadlines and a routine that I stick to every day. Having free time is something I do not cope well with because I am used to always moving and working so if free time is given I have to use that time for something productive. I am not one of those students who can watch Netflix during the semester because if I am doing that then I know I am doing something wrong. If I am lucky enough to be picked for SRA next year, and have CAB, it will help me create a good routine for my day to day life which then enables me to get my work in on time. A thought one may have, though, is if I have too much on my plate, my work will suffer and not be as best as it can be, but, being a perfectionist, I refuse to submit work I am genuinely proud of which allows my work to never suffer.

Providence when not divine ,it is foresight' was a thought that was always haunting me from childhood,little knowing that later in my life the writer in me is taking its shape.At times I thought why I could not solve problems academic as well as personal by using the same kind of thinking which we used when we created them ,as my greatest problem was what to do about all the things I couldn't do anything about.

My name is Theresa Laquita Williams. I was born in Palatka Florida but I now reside in Zion Illinois with my husband. I am in my second year at the College of Lake County. Upon completion of my Associate of Arts degree I am planning to transfer to a university to get my bachelorette degree in social work. When describing myself I would say that I have a strong love for people of all color. I am very friendly, outgoing, free hearted, creative, and a big dreamer. I am always thinking of ways to generate money. Some of my best qualities are helping people. The neighborhood kids call me Mrs. T. and I am always passing out little treats to the kids in the neighborhood. My worst qualities as a person

As I just came out of our prayer centered worship night my heart cried out. These feelings will soon fade by the time this article actually post, but I feel like I need to reflect on it. I cried for the first time not about my lacking of faith, school, boys, or friendships, but the darkest parts of me that I try so hard to hide. Those demons that I have fought long to fight off, but sometimes they come creeping back. I reflect on the past week and the news of suicide that destroyed my small town.This is something that occurs daily,but when you can actually put a personal relationship to the name it changes things. I think of all the times the Lord pulled me from some dark places and how easily not so long ago those headlines could've been

When first coming across this course, from the title, I expected the course to discuss and educate us about aging women and the physical, mental, and emotional changes they go through as they age. For example, I thought we would be discussing health issues such as malnutrition, memory loss, and depression. Each of which are health concerns that have been found to be associated with older women. In addition, I also expected the course to go into details about the physical changes that women go through and how they affect them emotionally. However, after beginning the course I realized that my expectations of this course were very basic compared to what the course was about. In fact, I felt almost ashamed of my shallow expectations because the course covered more important, broad issues that women deal with as they age. Most of the issues discussed many people are unaware of and have no knowledge about. Women age 60 and up battle with inequality, lack of power, and how they are a less dominant group in our society.

In setting an intention for my practice throughout the semester, I knew that for it to be impactful it had to challenge me to further develop my skills as a contemplative person both in and out of the classroom. I began the Fall 2017 semester without a particularly strong intention for anything. Perhaps a simple intention to excel and get high grades in my new courses. An intention to meet new people and make friends. However, soon enough, by the end of the 2nd week of the semester specifically, it was intuitively divined that I should set an intention to listen for my 49 day project. More specifically then to just listen was a desire to allow other people, things, and situations communicating to me to be allowed to express themselves authentically while feeling that they were genuinely being heard. I considered this to be a great intention for myself, because while it is true, that on more than one occasion, I have been told that I am a good listener, that people feel I give them my full attention and am not thinking of a response instead I’m attentively absorbing what they have to say. It is also true that many people consider me to be a very stubborn person that doesn’t allow feedback, criticism, or advice to change my course of actions. People feel that no matter they tell me, I don’t change. I don’t completely agree with such assessments, but I do realize this could be an important area for my growth. Being able to listen, understand, and make people feel that what they

My senior year I worked at a local yoga studio, developing a profound connection to the instructors. One day, in a conversation with my yoga instructor, we discussed the fact that if it weren’t for his job in retail and as an instructor, he would be homeless. I was moderately taken aback by this, but instead of shying away from the topic, I asked him how it felt and what his family thought. He further explained that his father’s expectations of him hadn’t matched what his desires were in life, fracturing their relationship.

For this semester, I wanted to steer away from my usual topic of sports for research and focus on other aspects of my life that impact me personally. I then began to think about all the other things in my life that I do on a dialy basis, and that’s when music came into mind. Listening to music is a part of my life that I use to help relieve my stress, stay focused while doing other tasks, or just to fill quiet space when I am by myself. I chose to focus on Alicia Keys because I have been listening to her music for as long as I can remember, and her very inspirational persona was always intruiging to me. I wanted to find out more about her advocational identity and compare it to the details behind her musical title and see which side was more beneifcial to our society as a whole. However, since she also is considered a celebrity figure, I was worried that the information I would be looking for would be invalid or biased. When it comes to my presentation skills, I believe I have improved greatly and my strengths are now starting to outweigh my weaknesses, especially regarding how I physically speak about my choice of a topic compared to the overall setup of my actual presentatiom.

Over the past semester, I have had the opportunity to be a part of this Citizen and Self class. Throughout my time in the class, I have had the pleasure of having my world-scope expanded and my definition of a citizen challenged. A major part of this class involved group work researching a topic/issue and then using the research to write a paper and lead a class discussion on the topic/issue and potential solutions for it. Additionally, we each had the task of placing ourselves in the shoes of a stakeholder for our topic and prepare a paper discussing their potential opinions and how the issue may affect them. Furthermore, outside of my deliberation, I was able to attend two additional deliberations. “Hindsight is always 20/20,” as a former teacher of mine would always say, now that I have made it through all these projects I can reflect on their successes, failures, and my own personal growth.

My father, a small town pharmacist, and my mother, a child behavioral psychologist, each had a fundamental empathy and compassion for aiding others. Through them I witnessed, and became inspired, by the ever complicated relationship dynamics of total patient care. I realized my father didn’t just fill prescriptions as the local “Walmart Pharmacist” and my mother didn’t just convene and listen to individual’s dialogue about their personal issues. Instead, the interactions they both faced with each of their respective patients carried a multiplex of red tape, claim denials, write offs, prolonged consults, bureaucracy, and confusing medical terminology from beginning to end. Yet, somehow they both managed to offer the care, sympathy, and willingness to assist anyone and everyone who required it within our small community.

The main goals for this project, as I said in my email last year, were to improve my work ethic, and create something I was proud of. I believe I accomplished both of those things, but first I will discuss the things that I would have done differently. Most importantly I would have captured more emotion in my photos. Not just more photos, but a wider range of emotions. I did capture some other emotions, but I had a lot fewer shots of them and therefore even fewer made it into the final project. I think that Braden purposefully wore a hat when I was taking photos of him, but I didn’t notice until it was too late. I would have worked harder to make him comfortable without it, but it took me too long to realize. I think I captured the main mood of what he does which is a sort of peaceful kind of work. He really seems in bliss when playing guitar and I was really able to capture that with the images I already took. As I continue to photograph Braden I will try to get more images depicting sadness, happiness, frustration, etc. I also wish I had more time with Braden. I took very opportunity that I had to take photos of him, and I shot at many different locations, but I am looking forward to photographing him during the school year when he is not gone with his family so much. This way I will have opportunities to photograph him in even more environments and doing more than just playing guitar. I will focus a little less on composition and more on the story, emotion, etc. I think