I consider myself someone who is a people person. I have always enjoyed interacting and working with others as opposed to working on a task by myself. My experiences have taught me that it has always been in situations that involve team dynamics or social interactions (starting in high school as rugby captain) that I have thrived both as a leader and as a firm contributor towards a common goal. I start off with this point because to me it seems that one must have the ability to lead others and to both understand and interact with the varying personalities and temperaments of people in order to enter into such a profession as dentistry. Furthermore, I feel as though I have been trying to mold such attributes through my experiences with my fraternity,…
Finally, when I moved to New Orleans I started volunteer work at the Children’s Hospital and helped with pop up clinics for the Latino community twice. Overall I found that helping others shouldn't be something seen as duty or mandatory, it should be spontaneous. Through others experiences and hardships we learn and grow as human beings, not only did I enjoy helping others but I felt that it helped me with my problems. Having moved around so much and meet so many people and living by myself so many years I came to truly be thankful for my blessings and specially for my hardships. Hermann Hesse once said, "I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value." Helping others made me realize that we all need help and that my way to help others would be through their health. It also taught me not to judge anybody, especially if you don't know what they have been through. I am hard believer that everything happens for a reason, and all the weekends I spend watching my parents help others helping others myself made me the determined person that I am today. Finally, the most important lesson I learned was to never give up, no matter how hard the task is or how bad the problem is there will always be someone willing to help and you can always be both sides to that, the helper or the one who needs…
It has been a struggle; it has consumed a decent portion of my free time, nevertheless in the end, I have become a capable, confident writer. One single person does not accomplish writing alone. Much like raising children, it takes a village to grow and develop from infancy to adulthood and I couldn’t have come this far without everyone’s help..…
During my first semester as a college freshman I have grown a lot not only as a student, but also as a person. At first I thought of myself as a good writer, but throughout the semester I learned that I had a lot of improvements to make in my writing. Already I have made a lot of progress and will continue to improve throughout the rest of the year in core.…
Throughout my life, countless problems have plagued me, some more serious than others. Many of these issues were conquered with the help of my friends, leading to a closer bond with them. Other times, the issues have resolved themselves, providing me with more of a learning experience. There are those obnoxious problems I have not been able to solve, the issues that pester me months after they first occur. These are the problems that have truly tested my abilities and beliefs and made me think carefully.…
In life, failures occasionally happen. It befalls on everybody. However, failures don’t label us as a person but can build you as one of those experiences. The person who succeeds without first failing hasn't truly learned anything. In failures, there can be a learning experience and an opportunity to develop. Throughout my seventeen years, I've encountered my own share of blunders, each teaching me a new lesson.…
While it’s not easy to admit that you’ve made a mistake, personal responsibility means admitting when you’ve made a mistake. The definition of personal responsibility is “the quality or state of being accountable; especially: an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one’s actions.” (Merriam Webster’s Online Dictionary, 2012) Everyone needs to accept responsibility for their own actions or inactions, after all no one is perfect. Even I have made numerous mistakes throughout my life time, but I have never been afraid to admit to any of my mistakes and after I admitted to the mistakes they were easily corrected.…
Mistakes in life are like the first time you jump into a pool without knowing how to swim; it allows you to realize it’s not a good idea and learn how to correct it before you end up drowning again. You’ll never learn anything in life without making mistakes first because they are the best learning experiences.…
I never been more frighten than when I was hit by a car. Getting off the bus to cross the street was the day my life flashed before my eyes. A van came around the transportation and hit me. My body flew across the street, leaving unable to move. The ambulance came and rushed me to the hospital. It felt like I was dying but really my body was extremely sore.…
The lessons we take from obstacles we encounter can be fundamental to later success. An obstacle can be a setback and anything that challenges you. I have faced many of challenges, but all of them have made me stronger. For example, when I was in 7th grade I broke my ankle at the beginning of football season. Another example is when I was in 8th grade I found out I had ADD, which makes it really hard to stay focused. Also this past summer I gained 30 pounds, which was really hard when football season came around.…
My friend slapped my face screaming words I would forever live by, “ You may try and fail, you may try again and fail, but you only fail when you stop trying. Get back up and don’t let it weigh you down, you can only learn from failure. If you think you are at rock bottom it's all good because the only way you can go is up, I can help you let's go up together.” At that moment I realized that failure can provide learning opportunities, if I let it . I then tried to look back at my mistakes and the biggest one was not practicing for my…
As I type this essay, I am listening to the playlist that I would put on shuffle every time I put my headphones on for roughly one and a half years. I am listening to this playlist in order to help me express the feelings I had felt during one of the toughest times of my life. The playlist consists of a variety songs about heartbreak, wishful thinking, dying dreams, the kind of music you would listen to after a breakup. Because that is what this felt like- a breakup. This was not a mutual breakup though, as I did not want the split from this sport to happen. The sport that I was infatuated with was running. It was my way of escaping the stresses of life. When I was told on April 10th, 2017 that I would have to part from running, my heart shattered.…
Everyone is bound to make mistakes and I’ve seen each one of my coworkers make mistakes and errors including myself. However, I’ve learned that its not about what mistakes you’ve made or how you made those mistakes, but it is about what you do after making those mistakes or errors that really count.…
My objective was to give students the opportunity to refine their fine motor skills, recognition of shapes (specifically the circle), recognize colors and finally to use their own creative thinking in creating their individual pizza. I thought you should state your objective(s) so teacher would know what talking about when say you met them- see if the objectives I wrote are correct????All of the students met the objectives for cutting and gluing; the fine motor skills. I ended up drawing out the circles for the pizza crust for the whole class, instead of only for the 1st grade students. Was second grade the others?????? They were able…
Needless to say, that changed very quickly. I learned to always consider about the possibility of failure. I learned to look ahead and see where my actions were taking me. Whether I liked the path or not, I had the ability to do something about it. I will never let my situation get so bad that it ends up like it did before.…