Reflection Instructions
For this assignment, please reflect on the Fall 2023 semester, and your experience as a whole. For each question, please provide a few thoughtful, well constructed sentences.
Your First Semester
- Tell us how you have grown from the beginning of the semester to now.
I struggled with time management at the beginning of the year and felt like I had no energy to do anything, but now I feel like I’m getting better at managing my time and having more energy.
- What were your expectations for this year? Did this semester’s experiences meet your expectations? Explain.
This year, I expected college life to be hard and stressful, but it hasn’t been as bad as I expected since we have more independent time because of our classes being spread out.
- What is something you wish you knew 14 weeks ago?
Since I learn something new every day to improve myself and not stress out, there’s nothing I wish I had known 14 weeks ago.
Study Habits
- How much time do you spend studying for each class now vs. at the beginning of the semester?
I spend more time studying for each class than I did at the beginning.
- How have your study habits changed?
I started to study more and try to prioritize my time but I still end up studying like 2 days before each exam.
- Tell us about a resource that you have used/learned about this semester that will assist you next semester.
One valuable resource that I learned this semester was the time management wheel and it showed me how much free time I have in between each activity I do every day.
- What study habits/techniques will you use going into next semester?
I want to try to study at least 30 minutes every day for each class I’m taking.
Health Professions Learning Community
- This semester you were enrolled in at least SOC 201S, and HLTH 101. Many of you were also enrolled in CHEM 105N and CHEM 106N, and some of you were enrolled in HIST 104H with Professor White.
- On the surface these classes do not appear to be connected; however this semester each professor was intentional about drawing connections between the content, and the subjects discussed. Discuss the ways in which these courses are tied together.
During this semester, I took SOC 201S and Chem 106N. These two courses are related because you use them every day, but you don’t realize that, so I learned a lot from both classes.
Parallel Plan
- This semester we had presentations from different majors in the College of Health Sciences as well as from different majors on campus. This was to give you an idea of possible parallel majors to your current intended major.
- Which two other majors would you be most interested in? Why?
Speech Pathology and Cyber Security are the two majors I was interested in. When we did the one activity that the Speech Pathologist made us do it was really fun and taught me something new. Cyber Security was another major I was interested in because I originally wanted to do that because I like working with computers but I found out that wasn’t my passion.
- What benefit is there to having a parallel plan (or two) in place?
It is beneficial to have a parallel plan so that you do not regret your choices in the future and are satisfied with your work.
- How could one or both of these two majors benefit your current intended major?
Well, they could benefit because Speech Pathology focuses on how the mouth works and Dental Hygiene works in the mouth. Cyber Security could also help because Dental Hygienists also use technology to do scans of the mouth and do research about it.