Personal Reflection On Self

Over the course of my academic career, I have volunteered with Key Club at my school and other various places, such as the Poe Center for Health Education and WakeMed Health and Hospitals. Involvement with each organization has had a tremendous impact on my character. Often, while at the Poe Center, I had hours alone to create educational tools, file papers, and enter data into spreadsheets which taught me responsibility and integrity. I always strived for the best when I completed tasks at the Poe Center and at WakeMed. Each organization has been impacted through my volunteer services. With Key Club, we had monthly trips to the senior home. Each time I visited the senior home, the elder’s faces would light up because many of them did not have

My freshmen year at Loyola, during spring break I went to East St Louis, Illinois for an Alternate Break Immersion trip. The key focus of this trip is the immersion aspect, this was not just a service trip, and it focused on building community and solidarity. While in East St Louis, I worked at Catholic Day Care, which is a predominantly black catholic day care that is centered on the low income housing of East St. Louis. I was tasked with aiding the preschool teachers and helping the kids learn how to use the computer and play educational computer games. In the afternoons, I went to the local community center and helped with the afterschool program. This included helping them with their homework or even just playing board games with them, building community. This school year I am a STARS, Students Together Reaching for Success, mentor. The STARS mentorship program is for students of color and first generational college students, specifically serving freshman. I have four mentees who I mentor throughout the school year, working on anything from academics to identity development. I am a resource that they can utilize off and on campus. STARS mentors also compile different committees and facilitate monthly gatherings for all 63 mentees. These usually center on different social justice initiatives, development of the person. I worked on the retreat committee where we facilitated a retreat for 50 STARS mentees and mentors, as well as working on a gathering that focused on professional development in future planning and

During the high school summers, I worked on a country club golf course. My job mainly consisted of greeting the members as they came to golf, clean their clubs, and wash the carts. I was basically the face of the country club golf operations. Many members are regular golfers whom come by the club multiple times a week. Through the years, I met and formed really close friendships with a select few members. These members collectively decided to take me under their wing. This was around the time I was applying for colleges. Through our many conversations, and learning about their lives (they are both in the business field), I changed my intended major from chemistry to finance, and switched my intended school from the out-of-state University of Michigan to the in-state Indiana University. These men have influenced my life so significantly, I would not be where I am today without them. Because of this experience, I hope to mentor an ambitious, young student one day.

Over a century ago, Woodrow Wilson implored higher education to seek to answer the questions and challenges of our community and nation by sharing ownership of the issues that define the well-being of our society. More recently, President Barack Obama stated: “Our task, working together, is to constantly widen the circle of our concern”. Service to others has been an integral part of my life that I anticipate continuing through adulthood. A service project that I completed over the summer taught me about the resiliency of the human spirit and the importance of widening my circle.

For 4 years, I was a student for an academically oriented summer program, in which we had the opportunity to experience the college lifestyle. Being a student in the MI Gear Up (M.I.G.U.) was a transformative opportunity; I recognized then that I wanted to transform other student’s life just as my leaders had done for me. Later after I graduated from the program, in 2012, I was promoted as a leader. As a junior leader, I worked with urban city students from the age of 14 to 18 all throughout the Mid Michigan area. As a mentor I had the role of teaching them the importance of their education, by being a guild throughout many exercises, and hosting many hands on activities being done on and off campus. M.I.G.U was more than an education program,

Out of about 100 applicants, I was on of 18 inductees selected to become part of the Society this school year. This organization has increased my participation in the government greatly and has opened my eyes to some of the needs in the community around us. One event that impacted my current perspective on life was an event for a local organization called A Touch of Understanding. In this event, I helped younger children understand the plights their mentally and physically impaired classmates deal with by leading activities that simulated those trials. The opportunity to bestow a compassionate worldview on a younger person through leadership was extremely rewarding and reminded me of how even the simplest actions perpetuate understanding and compassion in

Throughout my life, I have been shaped almost entirely by my experiences in academics, athletics, and social involvement in my community. . These experiences, both positive and negative, have one thing in common; I have learned from each and every one of them. . The negative experiences have helped me to better myself as a student, athlete, and citizen. The positive experiences have motivated me and pushed me to keep striving for further success.

Being awarded the Truman scholarship, a grant awarded to students who will work in public service post-graduation, Daniel cites his parents for his global perspective. “They always encouraged me to be civically minded and to think globally, not just locally.” Taking that perspective and applying it to his fellow graduates, Daniels upcoming message is about encouraging community involvement—especially on campus. “Remain open-minded and optimistic about the things you can do at UNLV,” he suggests. “The connections you can make with people from all different walks of life, the diversity that you see here at UNLV is the face of

In the spring of my junior year, myself, other National Honors Society members, and members of the community came together to put on a spaghetti dinner fundraiser. This fundraiser was to help the family of a freshman who was battling cancer. This experience impacted me in a way that I will never forget. By working to put together this dinner and working as a waiter at the dinner I realized how much I take for granted, and that I need to be more grateful in every aspect of my life. In preparation for this dinner I went to businesses for donations, made personal donations, and worked to get district and community involvement. As a waiter at the dinner I greeted the public, served the three-course meal, and helped to accept further donations for

Being able to communicate with them, share laughs, answer the million questions they had for me, and helping them with their homework, it was all a privilege. They made me realize how much I enjoyed helping others. It wasn’t easy finding time to be able to do what I enjoyed, servicing my community. I worked during 3 summers in high school, at the San Antonio Zoo, Burger King, and the Presa Community Center. I take part in the Math Honor Society at my school as the President. I am also in the National Honor Society, Spanish Honor Society, Rho Kappa Social studies Honor Society, Girl Scouts, Random Acts of Kindness club, and U.I.L Academics team. I participated in these clubs while being ranked one in my class. It wasn’t easy finding time, but I managed to do so to do what I

To start, I learned even though we live in the United States not everyone lives the same way such as the students from Myra Linn Elementary living close to universities here in Riverside have not yet seen or stepped on foot to even one of them in which I can say now that the twenty-five students who came did. Second, through this Senior Seminar Project, it has showed me to appreciate things that I have such as being able to attend college, as many are unable to do and to give back others to have the same opportunities as I do has truly impacted my commitment to others. Third, though this service-learning I have learned more about myself that I can bring change to this world by simply creating a Kid’s College Day for students to experience college and by when people come together many things can happen. Fourth, this Senior Seminar Project experience has greatly influenced and changed my life for the better to serve my community and the Lord. To sum it up, it has my shaped in life in a new perspective of when you help others you really feel good inside because you are not only thinking about yourself anymore, but you start to think about the world around you to become better as making me socially responsible of having a commitment to my

My cooperation has helped me establish strong relations with both student and faculty. I took advantage of the dynamic opportunities available by these organizations and assisted with raising donations, working at food banks, helping underprivileged students and mentoring lower class men. I have had the privilege to attend various leadership conferences and participate in many team building workshops to enhance my work ethic and improve as individual. It has help me understand as well as comprehend the importance of empowering one's community through the power of learning and education. As a first generation college student, I want to make my family proud and fulfill all their expectations.

Since I have started this class from the first lecture, it has been a very enjoyable time with this class and meet and make new connections. I also have had the opportunity to learn and reflex on myself through using the material that has been given in the course. This course not only taught me how to be a successful leader or how to engage with activities but it also taught me how to analyze myself as well. The best was to know yourself is to analyze your strength and weakness and also the barrier or obstacle that I found in order to develop myself.

The writing I did this semester for Engl 110c has meant alot to me because I was able to pick a topic that has such a huge impact in my life. I was able to do the topic about Navy Wives, which has a huge impact on me. I recently became a navy wife a year ago and my life has changed drastically. I was able to share everything I wanted to about the life of a military wife through my writings, as well as share to my classmates about my topic. I really enjoyed creating my ePortfolio because I could come out of my shell and be me. I made a ePortfolio website that would be for military wives to read. I believe this website would be perfect for any military wife reading it. I was able to give tips and information on what it’s like to be a military wife, how to prepare for deployments and how to stay strong being a military wife.

The class discussion about difference makers prompted me to evaluate my life and consider the type of impact I want to make during my time at APU. After careful consideration, I came to the conclusion that the most impactful difference I can make during my time at APU is being present for my peers. I am on Living Area Council for my hall, which means that I work closely with my RA, LAC representatives on other halls, and Jess, our building’s Community Advisor to plan events for all of Trinity and for third south. This position requires me to spend one on one time with my RA, and because of that I am able to get to know her better and learn different ways I can support her. I also have the opportunity to intentionally get to know my hall so that I can plan events that they would find interesting and want to attend. I want to be the type of person that my hall mates can depend on when they need someone to talk to, someone to give them snacks, and someone who can give them cough drops when they are not feeling well. I try my best to be engaged, have my dorm door open, and ask people about their day when I see them in the hall or the bathroom.