Reflective Essay On Student Development Class

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I knew what I was going to major in ever since I started High School. I had a passion and I wanted to pursue it, no matter the challenges or consequences. So, when my scholarship required me to take a Student Development Class, I signed up for the class that was open and seemed interesting. When I walked into class for the first time, I was confused because I was surrounded by many people who had no idea what they were going to do. This was a very unconventional experience because I have always known what I was going to be and have always planned out my life accordingly so. I had to force myself to take a step back and start viewing the world from my present college life instead of basing everything on future ambitions. By doing so, I was able …show more content…

I have planned a lot of great things for the future, but I tend to wait for an opportunity to turn up instead of pursuing different acts that would lengthen the stepping stones in front of me. Career Development enlightened my understanding of my weaknesses and how those are actually holding me back from accomplishing a successful college life. This includes the personality tests at the beginning of the semester, which informed me of my inability to act on instinct and turn down opportunities because I am waiting for a good time to pursue them. In addition to that, self-promotion and leadership are two traits to the lifestyle I am trekking towards, but I am doing so with an ignorant idea of leadership. I learned how I can enhance my skills and experience with leadership; including understanding the challenges and intimidating aspects. Being someone who has a hard time talk in general, I have a bad experience with self-promotion because I would get confused on what is good to talk about and what was more unnecessary; so, the knowledge I gained was very influential to my personality as well. To enforce these lessons, I have looked up different video contests that I would always excusably miss out on, because I didn’t want to put so much time into a project that had a good chance of not winning. Nevertheless, with a renewed determined to try to gain as much experience as possibly outside of

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