Self Reflection Essay

While I appreciated that one of my peers provided feedback on my work, I feel that the feedback that was provided did not fulfill the assignment. My peer did not provide detailed feedback on my paper that could be adequately incorporated in my review and revisions. Most of the information that was provided as feedback were simply statements that reiterated what the prompt question was. Please see the below feedback provided to me by my peer.

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 College of Charleston was my preferred college out of the colleges I applied to. A majority of the time this was a good choice. Then there are times when part of me thinks attending a different college would have been a better idea. Then again, it is only the first semester of my freshman year. Freshman year has a handful of requirements for classes, including the First Year Experience and the seminar that goes with it and many other general education courses. There were a good many choices to choose from for my First Year Experience class and The Gullah Community: Ethnographic Research in Gender and Identity was the one that stood out to me the most.

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.

Writing provides an outlet for careful thought and expression. Ever since I was young, I have always been exposed to the world of reading and writing. I started of creating stories about my friends and our imaginary adventures and now I am analyzing the effects of discrimination to the American Dream. Writing allows you to go places and consider circumstances that you may not have otherwise done. For me, I had the opportunity to grow up in a house that loved the art and beauty that came from a good book or written piece. My dad a history teacher turned librarian would always bring home books that he thought would peak our literary interest while my very English mother always enjoyed reading a good Jane Austin with some tea every chance she was given. I will have to admit, reading was always my favorite part about English. However, in my later years I have come to appreciate the art that goes into a written piece. The sitting and tapping of pens or feet as you wait for a point to form in your head that will catapult your mind over any writer’s block. The feeling when you have finished a piece and you are satisfied with it has always brought me joy.

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.

On Section 3 (Build Your DREAM Team) Module 1 (Develop your Social Network) Exercise 2.16 (How To Maximize Your LinkedIn & Facebook Profiles & Expand Your Networks) I began to reflect on what I learned in order to evaluate and maximize my social capital and build my brand. Since I did not have a LinkedIn.com profile, I started from scratch. I was very skeptical about creating a LinkedIn.com profile because once something is on the internet, it is forever, which I was reminded in class. However, prior to class, I learned that LinkedIn is an important factor in networking, finding job opportunities, and in the hiring process. Therefore, it is essential for me to have a profile to help me find a job and enhance my career. Without a social presence, I am invisible. As Professor Harry suggested, I pulled up his profile and started on mine. I began to realize that I have a gap. Everything I was involved in at high school was no longer significant. I was starting over. Some elements could carry over, but the majority could not. In class, we learned that creating a LinkedIn.com profile now, as a freshman, will help convey how much I need to do to make the difficult transition from college to the professional world a bit easier. I learned many things from completing my profile. I realize that it is important for me because as I was completing my LinkedIn profile I got a sense of direction and awareness as to where I am headed and what I need to accomplish to be a candidate for the

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.

It’s my first week. I’m stressed, I’m anxious, I’m overwhelmed. Am I in over my head? I can’t help but think I don’t belong here, that I’ve made a mistake. It’s freshman year, and I’m two days in. I was so eager to get here, and after only two days of class, I start doubting myself. Know the feeling? I couldn’t wait to get away from home, I was ready for this, I could taste the freedom. And yet, here I am, jolted into self-reflection, questioning if I was truly ready. I had no idea what I wanted to study, what career I wanted to pursue, or even how to make it through the next week. My college transition truly tested my perseverance and resilience, however, it all paid off when I stepped foot in my first psychology classroom.

In this journal, I will be reflecting on my last eight weeks of this course. In this class, I was unfortunate enough to receive the opportunity to practice writing essays in APA style format. If I were to describe this class to others, I would tell them to stretch their fingers, because of the sheer volume of essays is staggering, considering the topics. If this were a marketing class, I would not sell this class to anyone, unless there was a high monetary profit for me, but morally and ethically, I would not recommend this class. For me personally, now at this point in my life, I don’t think the information will help me.

The time was 7:15a.m. and the day was Wednesday, September 13th, 2017. Sitting at home on my old, worn out, brown reclining chair, I casually sipped my morning cup of coffee pondering my strange and unfamiliar dream from the night before.[Parallelism & Balance] It left me with a feeling of curiosity at its similarities with reality, but then I reminded myself it was just a dream and that no one really meets god for he doesn’t exist.[Self Reflection] As I sat reading The Washington Post from my apartment on the sixth floor of a highrise in New York City, New York, my mind slowly strayed towards work.[Where] After looking at my physics phd diploma, I began fretting the long day I have ahead of myself at a secret lab in New York, where the old manhattan project took place; which was being repurposed for my research.[Irony] To alleviate the dread and despair I now contained, I came upon the decision to go on a walk before work.[Balance]

Through my my journals and the time I’ve spent at Gardner Pilot Academy, I’ve noticed more and more the importance of developing good relations with students and fellow teachers. At the start of this program, I did not even consider the impact of relationships on learning. This may be because although relationships have a vital role on one's education, they are so commonplace in our lives they go unnoticed by students in the classroom. The impact of these relationships, though, is very noticable when teaching. While assisting Ms. Ramon with her classes, I not only saw the relationships she had with her students and how they created a more positive and productive environment, but also the impact of those relationships. During the first couple days I was assisting, I noticed she always expressed interested in her students and treated them with respect. Throughout the rest of my time, I continued to notice this, and have also observed how she makes students feel their contributions are welcomed and how she collaborates with fellow teachers. Experiencing her relationship building process has helped me develop my own relationships, both with students and teachers. Relationships are key in creating a productive and positive learning environment.

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.

In general, how successful was the lesson? The presentation was successful. There was a large turnout of 12th and 11th grade students as well as parents/guardians. The students and parents/guardians were engaged in the presentation and information that was being provided. It was also a great time to provide resources to the attendees, such as the HAAS counseling website.

As the saying goes, we all have skeletons in our closet. As you get older you have more and more things in your past that you are ashamed of. There are two kinds of ways you can handle these regrets. The first one is the easiest, let your past mistakes consume you and fall apart. The other option is a bit more difficult, reflect on these mistakes and learn from them. For this assignment I will be discussing my own past, revisiting bad memories and reflecting on some of my mistakes.