Learning Experiences: Blog 5 As a senior, taking the chance to reflect on some of the classes that taught me more than I could imagine has been a great experience for me. One class I often think about is Poetry Writing Workshop 1, which I took last spring semester with Professor Alex Lemon. I had major doubts about my ability to write poetry. I knew I liked to read poetry, but I didn’t think I knew how exactly to write poetry. At the beginning of the semester, I was a little lost. I didn’t know if there was a specific format that I was supposed to follow, or if I even had good ideas. Yet as the semester continued, I found myself feeling lucky to have finally been able to allow myself to take a course like poetry. TCU has shown me so many different sides to not only myself, but to what there is out in the world. Learning from other students in the class was so exciting and I found many people who I look up to in there. During that semester, I found that there ar...
Learning Experiences Blog 6 The interview process. I hate it. I mean, what’s there to like, anyway? You’re being asked to expose yourself to people you know nothing about while they sit there and judge every last movement you make. They read your body language, they whisper to each other about subtleties in your words that they’re trying to make sense of, and they ask you to talk about your weaknesses. I don’t know about you, but I would rather not straight up admit I’m not the person they should be hiring. I know hiring managers would never admit this, but it’s like they’re looking for something wrong with you – some way for them to not hire you. This is madness. I’m already not one to brag about myself, but it’s prevalent even more so in settings whereby my insecurity is exacerbated. For starters, there can’t be one right answer to every question; everyone is different, and those differences should be celebrated not judgmental. Interviews in my opinion are the most flawe...
Two words: Tiger King. Scratch that, add two more words: My dad. Now, let’s just say my dad is not known for his love of television. In fact, he hates movies and most television shows…to give you some context, his idea of fun is connecting his laptop to our living room TV screen and pulling up x-rays and MRI scans and forcing the entire family to try and diagnose the patient.... Mind you, my dad is a radiologist for a living so of course he already knows what’s wrong with the patient. So, much to his amusement, he sits there with wine in one hand and teaches my brother and I how to read MRI’s and makes us battle each other to see who can correctly diagnose the patient first. He still can’t figure out why neither me or my brother chose the medical field as a career path. Imagine that?! Anyway back to Tiger King. This has become my dad’s new favorite show – of all time. I’m still unsure of how he found it, but regardless of how he did, I’ve never heard my dad laugh so hard ...
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