Key Moments Of Sophomore Level In My Education Journey

It is week 4 of the new quarter, Sophomore year. I have come to notice a lot of small specific details that ended becoming a part of my education journey throughout all my years of school. Realizing my work patterns and ethics in the past, I found it very important to use each of those details as specific guidance, encouraging me to set myself up to improve my goals that has become concrete in my second year. All my classes right now are the same, challenging in terms of assignment load and thinking outside the box, understanding what is IAS. I still keep close attention to key moments in terms of if I advanced on one of goals or stumbled down in my current quarter.

What I notice throughout the first few weeks as an IAS student was that all my classes have many varieties of experience that were all relevant in one thing, cooperative learning. That was more of a personal skill that college influenced me on, with my social skills. For me, collaboration provided me an opportunity to not only interact but also meet other people and learn about them as themselves and as a IAS student. I have met many classmates from diverse backgrounds and each of them self have many preferences different or in common with others. An example I would use was an artifact from my Introduction to Psychology class. It was group project in terms of understanding the components of the assignment and the mindset of finishing the objective and returning home. For me as a personal goal, this advance me in term of becoming a better person of interacting with others and improving my communication skills that helps me prepare for the future. I am now able to not assume stereotypes and other common myths. This artifact was showing multiple objectives that I crossed upon in terms of developing collaboration and leadership abilities to refine ideas. I am confident I advanced because as a collaboration, we knew what strengths we had in this project and all listened to each others opinion, respecting each other and were able to critically analyze the type of proposal to work on. I usually look back to most likely highschool to still how much I advance from then or what can I do to improve. It was very confusing for me in the first two years of high school since it was just studying and volunteering in various activities. I then slack off my last two years of highschool just becoming more of procrastinator.

My learning style during those times ranges depending on what mood I am in. After that, I technically started Cascadia as my first college quarter to help me understand the college setting. I thought the atmosphere would be more similar to highschool in terms of just doing homeworks and passing assessments. What made me realize that I my habits were not working in that environment after seeing my first grade on an English paper. I thought my own standards were considered to be “A” work but I was terribly mistaken. That gave me the realization within my mindset. I then started pushing myself harder everyday, spending hours working with my professor or with a peer on drafting, writing, etc. It paid off when I saw an improvement on later assignments and later courses, for example, a research paper on a certain horrific event in my BWRIT135. This artifact showed one of IAS objectives of further developing their ability to conduct individual research across multiple areas of knowledge and develop research questions to analyze critical information. I learned more about rhetoric and writing and analyzing critical information about this horrific event in terms of gathering information from primary sources and evaluating how relevant it is to be put to use.

These 3 sample artifacts are my improvement of my advancement through my college education. I still have a lot to prepare for in terms of preparing myself into having a successful future. Starting college has advanced me as a students in terms of thinking critically in education goals while internally, developing a mature character that understand he has a lot of responsibility in school. The goals for an IAS student is advancing proficiency in different skill areas such as critical thinking and gain proficient knowledge of methods of cross-cultural analysis. I understood the importance of collaboration in terms of respecting my team’s opinion, further analyzing the idea in order to successfully generate new ideas and understanding my awareness of identifying central questions and interpreting/ analyzing central ideas within a reading or information. I still further want to advance those goals in mindset, overall improving mostly my writing capabilities.