First Year Seminar: Reflection

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  1. Hi. My name is Pamela Zenica, and I go by Pam.
  2. And this is my first year seminar Reflection presentation.
  3. The first slide is navigating the system
  4. and campus resources.
  5. Going into a new school system can always be very difficult,
  6. as it was for me and many other students.
  7. Week two and 3, we discussed student organizations and
  8. library services, which for me came in very handy.
  9. This helped me navigate my way through Harper,
  10. and it really allowed me to get familiar with all the
  11. material and resources provided for all the students at Harper.
  12. The first couple of weeks of this course was really important because it gave
  13. me a good idea of where to find everything located on the campus.
  14. At first I thought that every incoming incoming freshmen or
  15. transferring student that attended Harper knew where everything was located.
  16. But little by little, I realized that I wasn't alone,
  17. and I wasn't the only one who wasn't aware of all the resources provided for us.
  18. Luckily, this class guided me through that.
  19. The second slide is strategies for engagement and success.
  20. I have always been good at engaging in conversation and group projects, but
  21. because school has been online for the past
  22. two years,
  23. it's become very hard to manage those communication skills.
  24. During week six, we had many topics
  25. and many assignments
  26. one of my favorite assignments being
  27. emotional intelligence assignment as well as the study plan chart
  28. During week six.
  29. It helps me stay organized and
  30. helped keep my studies in organization
  31. and all of course assignments that I had.
  32. It also helped me improve my strengths and weaknesses as
  33. well as setting myself realistic goals and achievable goals.
  34. The 3rd slide is developing a plan and career.
  35. During week eight,
  36. we were giving a personal development plan to create for ourselves and our futures.
  37. I think this was one of the most crucial and important assignments in this course.
  38. Although this was helpful for me,
  39. I did already knew what major I wanted to study.
  40. If anything, knowing what I wanted to study as a career helped me more
  41. during the whole developing plan,
  42. becoming a child life specialist has always been one of my biggest goals.
  43. Being able to teach and shape Children's lives has
  44. always been so important and so personal to me
  45. I was able to do some research about being a child life specialist,
  46. the salary internships,
  47. the requirements and decrees that one must have to go into the profession.
  48. It not only gave me a better idea of what requirements are needed,
  49. but also made me realize that this was the right path for me.
  50. I know that for other students, this class was very helpful,
  51. especially if they didn't know what they wanted
  52. to study or what career they were choosing.
  53. The 4th slide is critical thinking and problem solving.
  54. Although I have been a critical thinker for a very long time now,
  55. I haven't been that much of a problem solver.
  56. Critical thinking involves more than just your brain.
  57. It involves analyzing the text and problem in front of you.
  58. This course allowed me to reflect on my abilities and set
  59. aside time to actually work on my problem solving skills,
  60. nation and sources.
  61. Throughout all my first semester at Harper,
  62. so much information and so many resources have been given and provided for me.
  63. This class really gave me an idea of where to get
  64. the resources and how to use it properly and correctly.
  65. My last and final slide is culture and diversity
  66. which is one of my favorite things about this class was the diversity
  67. and how much it was talked about.
  68. Being a person of color. Diversity is very important to me.
  69. It allows me to be true to myself and my surroundings as well as
  70. true to my others.
  71. During both week
  72. four and 5, we had a couple of goals
  73. set in mind. We had a couple of assignments
  74. that had a lot to do with discrimination against black individuals.
  75. Not many of these courses talked about diversity, so
  76. I truly enjoyed this topic and the light it
  77. brought to the idea of culture and uniformity.
  78. This class also allowed me to be aware of my surroundings and other people in it,
  79. as well as their cultures and all the social norms that they inquire.
  80. And that was the end.
  81. Thank you so much for listening and thank you so much for your time.