End Of The Semester Reflection
Did your semester go the way you had imagined? Why or why not?
It did, because I didn't think I would working with the freshmen, and I honestly didn't. I think it was an uneccesarily frustrating challenge and it caused more problems for me and people around me and it went pretty much as I expected.
List and elaborate on at least three areas of personal growth.
I feel like I've manged my stress levels. I used to shut down immediately at the first sign of stress, and though I still don't function very well under a lot of stress, I don't get that stressed as much anymore, and I can work through the stress. I've been more motivated to work, I'm not sure exactly what happened but a switch flipped and even if I don't enjoy doing something or don't feel like it, I still do it and I can do it to the best of my abilities. I also found the right balance of stepping up and stepping down/standing up for myself and staying quiet, which was a very good thing for me because I was either too quiet or too aggressive.
List and elaborate on at least three areas of academic growth.
This ties in with personal growth, I have been more motivated to do school work that I don't necessarily want to do. I didn't necessarily want to edit the movie, but I finished it in time, pulled through, and in my opinion, made a great final movie. I did this by taking quick breaks when I became a little overwhelmed and bored of working basically non-stop. When I was motivated, I took advantage of it. I've become more organized with my work, which was a goal of mine, though I am still messy, there is now a method to my madness, it seems being in the film crew and working with all of the footage somehow helped me improve. I also have a reborn love for writing and a want to work on it more, since I basically abandoned it last year.
Did you accomplish or move closer to accomplishing any goals you had at the beginning of the semester? If so, explain how, if not, explain why.
I did manage to try to be open minded with the change, despite my initial "disgust" at the idea. I remained positive until I realized that it just really wasn't the ideal situation. As far as a less negative goal, as I stated before, my work has become more organized.
State and describe two goals for next semester. One in an area of personal growth and one in an area of academic growth. Additionally, very specifically explain how you plan to accomplish them.
Personally, I would like to continue heal old wounds with people and let go of anger in the past, because all it does is stress me out and diminish my quality of work and life. I plan to do this as I have so far, by finding the right time and place to pull people aside and talk things out. Academically, I would like to work on being able to take things home. I don't like to take work home because I try to work as hard as possible in school and I like my home to be a relaxing place, but since I'm dealing with my stress and would like to continue getting rid of it, I may be able to convince myself to take a little time to work at home if necessary to meet deadlines.
Did you engage in our project and the work that surrounded it to the best of your ability? If yes, cite and explain examples, if no, reflect on why that was, and what could have been done differently to get you to engage.
I think I did, mostly with the film. I didn't always like doing it, but I ALWAYS worked. I put my all into it, and though I'm not extremely proud of the product itself, I am proud of it because of the amount of focus and work I put into it.
If you could design and execute your own semester, your own project, what would it be and why? What would you hope others would learn from it?
I would do an arts project for selfish reasons (I like drawing) and because I believe that art is a necessity in people's life. Not just painting/drawing/sketching, things liek sculpting or music or writing, just something to spark the creative side of people, because some have convinced themselves that they don't have one, which is completely untrue.
What feedback do you have for us, Andrew and Adam? How could the project have been better? How could our individual classes have been better?
I think that the project was a little more chaotic than it should've been with all of the extra background work like the blog posts and such. It was hard to keep track of everything and it was kind of stressful, and I liek to feel relaxed and like I can sort of take my time with a project.
It did, because I didn't think I would working with the freshmen, and I honestly didn't. I think it was an uneccesarily frustrating challenge and it caused more problems for me and people around me and it went pretty much as I expected.
List and elaborate on at least three areas of personal growth.
I feel like I've manged my stress levels. I used to shut down immediately at the first sign of stress, and though I still don't function very well under a lot of stress, I don't get that stressed as much anymore, and I can work through the stress. I've been more motivated to work, I'm not sure exactly what happened but a switch flipped and even if I don't enjoy doing something or don't feel like it, I still do it and I can do it to the best of my abilities. I also found the right balance of stepping up and stepping down/standing up for myself and staying quiet, which was a very good thing for me because I was either too quiet or too aggressive.
List and elaborate on at least three areas of academic growth.
This ties in with personal growth, I have been more motivated to do school work that I don't necessarily want to do. I didn't necessarily want to edit the movie, but I finished it in time, pulled through, and in my opinion, made a great final movie. I did this by taking quick breaks when I became a little overwhelmed and bored of working basically non-stop. When I was motivated, I took advantage of it. I've become more organized with my work, which was a goal of mine, though I am still messy, there is now a method to my madness, it seems being in the film crew and working with all of the footage somehow helped me improve. I also have a reborn love for writing and a want to work on it more, since I basically abandoned it last year.
Did you accomplish or move closer to accomplishing any goals you had at the beginning of the semester? If so, explain how, if not, explain why.
I did manage to try to be open minded with the change, despite my initial "disgust" at the idea. I remained positive until I realized that it just really wasn't the ideal situation. As far as a less negative goal, as I stated before, my work has become more organized.
State and describe two goals for next semester. One in an area of personal growth and one in an area of academic growth. Additionally, very specifically explain how you plan to accomplish them.
Personally, I would like to continue heal old wounds with people and let go of anger in the past, because all it does is stress me out and diminish my quality of work and life. I plan to do this as I have so far, by finding the right time and place to pull people aside and talk things out. Academically, I would like to work on being able to take things home. I don't like to take work home because I try to work as hard as possible in school and I like my home to be a relaxing place, but since I'm dealing with my stress and would like to continue getting rid of it, I may be able to convince myself to take a little time to work at home if necessary to meet deadlines.
Did you engage in our project and the work that surrounded it to the best of your ability? If yes, cite and explain examples, if no, reflect on why that was, and what could have been done differently to get you to engage.
I think I did, mostly with the film. I didn't always like doing it, but I ALWAYS worked. I put my all into it, and though I'm not extremely proud of the product itself, I am proud of it because of the amount of focus and work I put into it.
If you could design and execute your own semester, your own project, what would it be and why? What would you hope others would learn from it?
I would do an arts project for selfish reasons (I like drawing) and because I believe that art is a necessity in people's life. Not just painting/drawing/sketching, things liek sculpting or music or writing, just something to spark the creative side of people, because some have convinced themselves that they don't have one, which is completely untrue.
What feedback do you have for us, Andrew and Adam? How could the project have been better? How could our individual classes have been better?
I think that the project was a little more chaotic than it should've been with all of the extra background work like the blog posts and such. It was hard to keep track of everything and it was kind of stressful, and I liek to feel relaxed and like I can sort of take my time with a project.