My Career As A Learning Assistant

My failures in life have only propelled me towards leadership. In the four years of my undergraduate career, my worst grade in college has been a “C” in my General Biology I class in my freshman year. The reason that I attribute to this failure was the fact that it was my first attempt at trying to balance a full time job along with being enrolled as full time student at the University of Colorado. Additionally, I had recently moved to the United States from Nepal. I was still experiencing culture shock and it was definitely a challenge for me to have a balanced work and study. However, the next semester I analyzed all the stages of progress. Trying to maintain a full time job and a full time credit hour load at school became a game I wanted to

It was a realization that I cannot forget even to this day. It is very important that in life, we train for failure and for success too. I did not let my bad grade affect me negatively nor undermine my potential in learning difficult information. Going forward, I pursued the position of a Learning Assistant at the University of Colorado, Denver for Organic Chemistry I and II. I spent my time assisting Dr. Lisa Julian in a class of 160 students. I enjoyed tutoring students and took the time on my weekends to grade test paper. A critical role for this position was to prepare worksheets for the students to practice before the exam. I knew what I had done in the past to get that “A-“ in General Biology class and I prepared the worksheets that targeted weakness in various aspects of the subject. My failures didn’t let me down; instead it inspired me to challenge the outdated assumption that “if you got a C in a specific subject, you might not be competent enough to teach harder materials to other students.” I did not let myself be in the category of average people, instead I positioned myself in the category of achieving