"Dear Mohnish, I am sorry to inform you that I will not be able to mentor you on your research. Best of luck for your future endeavours." read the email as tears started rolling down my cheeks. This was the thirty-seventh time that my request for mentorship was declined. It was heartbreaking to get rejected by all the people that I had asked for mentorship. Months of hard-work spent formulating the research project and designing the experiments had gone down the drain. After a few weeks of dwelling over the rejections, I decided to carry out the project myself. My idea to carry out the project alone was met with skepticism from many people. Friends called me mad, teachers called my idea a waste of time. My parents did not encourage this idea. But I stuck to my decision. After all, I had nothing to lose. …show more content…
The project required certain programs to be coded. My prior experience in programming was as good as nothing. School turned out to be of very little help during this time. So, I started taking online lectures offered by MIT. Hours were spent completing the coursework and ten times the same amount of time was spent practicing and getting better at programming. StackOverflow had become my best friend for the next few months. Thousands of lines of code and 93 days later, I had become proficient in the Python programming language. Having acquired the programming skills, I was now able to code the required programs. Now, it was time to find volunteers. When you are a sixteen year old with no one to back you up, it is very hard to get people to invest their time in you and your project. However, weeks of chasing and pleading finally got me the volunteers that were
You will interact with numerous people during your lifetime; however, only important and significant people will make influences in your life. In the movie Something the Lord Made directed by Joseph Sargent, Vivien Thomas, an African-American carpenter who dreams of going to college and becoming a doctor, is forced to work as a lab assistant under the instructions and guidance of an arrogant and eccentric cardiologist, Dr. Alfred Blalock. Despite having no college degree, Vivien Thomas is able to learn medical and surgical skills through the guidance of Dr. Blalock, and their cooperation ultimately leads to the discovery of a cure for blue baby syndrome. Similar to Dr. Blalock’s tutelage, I have learned to love biology under the teaching and mentoring of my biology teacher, Dr. Cron. Even though both Dr. Cron and Dr. Blalock are excellent instructors, they are extremely and uniquely different in their mentoring styles. Differences in mentoring styles can have huge influences and impacts on the mentees’ development of skills, and personalities.
This is a response to the counseling memorandum I received from you on February 23, 2017, on “outdated information”.
I think the project that most impacted me as a learner was the memorial project. This projected made me grow as a learner because I had to work with someone that I had never worked with before. When we started just getting a topic that we both wanted to do was the first thing that made me realize that this project was going make me need to use and learn some new skills. My partner and I had some trouble with trying to come up with a design to show everything we wanted to show for our topic. We had to be patient with each other making sure the we both listing to each other and understanding what and why they wanted to do this. We also has some trouble with communication because we didn’t completely understand what the other wanted making ti hard to finalize our design. Another thing with communication was who was doing what my partner didn’t always know what to do so we would sometimes end up wasting time trying to find something for her to do that she wanted to do. Communicating was something that I really improved on for this project teaching me how to be more specific with what I say so that we don’t get confused later. Over all I think that this memorial project as the one that made me use more of the learner profile skills then any other and helped me improve one one as
When I found out that I would be a mentor for next year, I knew I would be playing an important role in the lives of the incoming freshmen. Being a mentor for the Luckyday program not only means that one will be helping in the transition from high school, but also impacting the lives of the incoming freshmen. This six-week class has given me insight and a foundation that I could build on to increase my potential to be an effective mentor. I will also incorporate the information and resources that has been given to me in order to help my mentees succeed. During next year, I plan to use my experiences with my mentor, the ten characteristics of servant leadership, and what I have learned in UNV 312 to guide me in assisting my mentees in the transition
When I began high school I was taking a computer science class. The class presented many difficult concepts, some of which I grasped immediately. Others, such as the concept of object-oriented programming design, took me awhile longer to understand. When the concept was first explained to me during my first semester of computer science, I did not understand it at all. I thought to myself, “I have no idea how to use this, I don’t even know why it useful, oh well, I’ll just ignore it for now.” However, as I continued throughout the class, learning new classes and me...
I chose to participate in this work in order to spread the spirit of volunteerism. The idea for this group was already in place when I enrolled at the high school and sought participation in a service club; however, the organization was rather inactive. I was inspired to become more involved as I reached out individually to local organizations in need of volunteers, including the local school corporation and Christian ministries.
While my mentors provided guidance, this felt like a monumental task I couldn’t hope to achieve. Try as I might, I just couldn’t make any progress. I loved research, and thought I was good at it, but after this experience I
For my main Project 11, I volunteered as a tutor at Rowland Hall. I tutored three students and I helped with multiple subjects, including science, math, English, and American studies. Each day, I would help my students complete their homework, work on papers, study for tests, or understand concepts. This experience was important to me because I could tell I was helping these kids learn and perform better in their schoolwork. I was interested in this project because I wanted to directly have an impact on my community.
The Relief trip to New Jersey was my first volunteer trip. It ensued from the 2nd of August to the 10th of August 2013, barely two months after I arrived in the United States. However, it was a terrific experience for me. This trip created a wonderful opportunity for me to meet forty incredible people who had the same objective as I did: helping people. These people were more than willing to work cooperatively with strangers in order to achieve this goal. During the nine days spent in New Jersey, we became more than a team, we became a family. We went to the beach, took pictures, played games, talked, laughed and prayed together.
Before this project I was in cruise control regarding work outside of school. It never was something in which I needed to block time out of my day to do. Going into Sunday afternoon, nothing had changed, but I knew it was time to begin working. As night fell I slowly started to realize that this was no small task and I was going to be cutting this close.
As defined by Merriam Webster, a mentor is, “someone who teaches or gives help and advice to a less experienced and often younger person.” “My Mentor, My Friend” is a poem about the relationship of a mentor and a mentee that goes beyond this definition. The author writes about how their mentor not only gives guidance, but is someone they trust and can be themselves around. This mentor is seen as a friend that is looked up to for advice, life skills, and encouragement. They were always patient, uplifting, accepting, and understanding, going above and beyond the basic role of a mentor. The mentee expresses in this poem how appreciative and thankful they are to have a mentor and friend in their life. (Genter, 97)
After this project I would seriously consider not doing any projects in my classroom. But I need to remember this is only one experience (and my first one at that.) Not all projects need to go this way. Having had this experience can help me make sure I don’t have similar ones in my classroom.
I found this project to be quite intimidating considering I have zero creativity and artistic talent. Thus, this project was a learning experience for me. I decided that my project would take form in a video. I decided this because I’m incredibly self-conscious and shy. Also, because presenting is one of my biggest fears.
When first beginning the course, I was both hesitant and excited. I never had tried a fully simulation-based course, and therefore was looking forward to it. Over the course of project one, I learnt many new skills and techniques in order to communicate at a higher degree of efficiency. In the first task, I learnt how to reach out to a client in a professional manner. In the past, I would not have known to email a client to introduce myself, and therefore this was something that was new to me. Furthermore, I like to consider myself a decent writer of professional emails, so learning about vocabulary was not something I felt I needed to focus on.
My inspiration for this project mainly came from my teachers, peers, and family. They helped in brainstorming and shaping my topic, but I created the idea for my final product. Once I told my family my topic and what I planned to do, they supported me through the entire process. My mentor, Mrs. Rogers, had a huge impact on my project and helped with mentoring me through the process and ensuring me about deadlines and answered any questions I had.