Exercise 1:
After reading my entire blog a couple of times over I would have to say I have gain a new found respect for my weaknesses and how to deal with them. My opinion and fears about people in general has gotten a little better, and hopefully it would continue to get better has time goes on.
Exercise 2: I would say I have learn to ask people for help, instead of trying to do things on my own.
Exercise 3:
Has I already stated in exercise 1, I have learn to identify my weakness and deal with them in order to become a better person, also my fears and opinion of people have gotten better. Overall I am really amazed at how I am able to related to the topics covered in the class, and I was really astonished at how the books for the classes were able to talk and clarify some of the questions that I have had for quite some time. I can't wait to actually reread all of them again over the summer so that I can have time to reflect on each book. Even though I am already an optimistic person, but kinda of lost regarding my future, I have a clearer view of my future now and what I am going to have to do to achieve my goals. The activities or behavior that I started to do is talking to people about my goals and asking them for help and also help others that might need my help too.
4. 3 things I liked best about this class would have to be the required books for the class, getting to be in a group and help each other out and the professor and TAs.
5. 3 things I don't like about the class would have to be the quizzes, repeating my goals over and over again to people, and.........ummmm that's all I got for now.
6. I really don't have any suggestions as to ways to improve the class, because the class style and structure is fine to me.
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
Assignment #13: Work the plan
Exercise 1:
One of my first steps is to study for my classes that are required to graduate, and I already started studying for two of the classes because finals are approaching really soon and there are a lot of material that are going to be covered on the finals for both classes.
Exercise 2:
The weekly business this week was over the phone with the same good friend of mine from last week, weekly business meeting. We went over last week, weekly business objects to see if we accomplished them or not. Overall I was able to get all the things that I said I was going to accomplished done, with some motivational nagging from my business buddy. For this week I don't really have a lot that I have to do, except study a lot since I have been procrastinating a lot lately, and read the required chapters for leadership. After my propositions my buddy is going to call during the middle of the week to see if I am on top of my studies.
Exercise 3:
This exercise is kinda of tough for me, because I am not much of a planner and I really dislike planning stuff, even if I was to plan my day out I could only plan ahead a day or two maximum. I could go into why I don't like planning things ahead or what not, but that might take ages to explain. I am more of a go with the flow of the day or moment kinda of person. But since I must (cringe) I will try my best. For this coming week:
Monday: Meet with a buddy in the morning to study for embryology lab.
go to class
more studying
Tuesday: Go class
try to go workout
do laundry
Wednesday: Go to class
Read
see where the day takes me.
Thursday: Go to class
study
see where the day takes me.
Friday: Volunteer
Go to class
study
see where the day takes me.
Saturday: Work
See where the day takes me.
One of my first steps is to study for my classes that are required to graduate, and I already started studying for two of the classes because finals are approaching really soon and there are a lot of material that are going to be covered on the finals for both classes.
Exercise 2:
The weekly business this week was over the phone with the same good friend of mine from last week, weekly business meeting. We went over last week, weekly business objects to see if we accomplished them or not. Overall I was able to get all the things that I said I was going to accomplished done, with some motivational nagging from my business buddy. For this week I don't really have a lot that I have to do, except study a lot since I have been procrastinating a lot lately, and read the required chapters for leadership. After my propositions my buddy is going to call during the middle of the week to see if I am on top of my studies.
Exercise 3:
This exercise is kinda of tough for me, because I am not much of a planner and I really dislike planning stuff, even if I was to plan my day out I could only plan ahead a day or two maximum. I could go into why I don't like planning things ahead or what not, but that might take ages to explain. I am more of a go with the flow of the day or moment kinda of person. But since I must (cringe) I will try my best. For this coming week:
Monday: Meet with a buddy in the morning to study for embryology lab.
go to class
more studying
Tuesday: Go class
try to go workout
do laundry
Wednesday: Go to class
Read
see where the day takes me.
Thursday: Go to class
study
see where the day takes me.
Friday: Volunteer
Go to class
study
see where the day takes me.
Saturday: Work
See where the day takes me.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Assignment #12: The buddy System
Exercise #1: First steps
One of the goals that I had on my planing wall is to graduate with a bachelors degree, which I am going to accomplish next month. But in other to accomplish this goal I have to finish all the required classes for the degree. In other to finish all the classes I have to do all the homework for each classes and pass all the test given in each class. So this week I am a step closer to achieving my wall plan goal, which to graduate next month. By finish a 12 page term paper for one of the required classes. I also just learned that I got an A for another class..... YEAAAAAAA BOIIIIIIIIIII! For the rest of the required classes I already started studying for the upcoming test required to pass and get good grades in all of them so that I could graduate this May.
Exercise #2: The Buddy System
1. My buddy for the buddy system is one of my good friend A. I picked this buddy of mine because our academic goals and plans to achieve them are sort of the same and we bounce ideas off each other when we have problems or questions.
2. The meeting was Monday around 3:30pm, because we were getting together with two of my other buddies to discuss the lease process to our spanking new apartment... but yea back to business.
We decide to meet every Monday around the same time, since it seems we both are free around that time for about 30 minutes until we graduate so we discuss:
- How the lease and the move in date for our SPANKING new apartment is going.
- How we are going to divide housework for all four of us living in the apartment.
- Work on resumes for getting jobs and start making some $$$$.
- If there are any activities going on campus for the coming weekend.
- What time in the summer we will start studying for graduate school entrance exams, me=PCAT A.=MCAT.
- Set another time during the week to help each other with class homework that we might be having problem with.
The whole meeting lasted about 20 minutes.
One of the goals that I had on my planing wall is to graduate with a bachelors degree, which I am going to accomplish next month. But in other to accomplish this goal I have to finish all the required classes for the degree. In other to finish all the classes I have to do all the homework for each classes and pass all the test given in each class. So this week I am a step closer to achieving my wall plan goal, which to graduate next month. By finish a 12 page term paper for one of the required classes. I also just learned that I got an A for another class..... YEAAAAAAA BOIIIIIIIIIII! For the rest of the required classes I already started studying for the upcoming test required to pass and get good grades in all of them so that I could graduate this May.
Exercise #2: The Buddy System
1. My buddy for the buddy system is one of my good friend A. I picked this buddy of mine because our academic goals and plans to achieve them are sort of the same and we bounce ideas off each other when we have problems or questions.
2. The meeting was Monday around 3:30pm, because we were getting together with two of my other buddies to discuss the lease process to our spanking new apartment... but yea back to business.
We decide to meet every Monday around the same time, since it seems we both are free around that time for about 30 minutes until we graduate so we discuss:
- How the lease and the move in date for our SPANKING new apartment is going.
- How we are going to divide housework for all four of us living in the apartment.
- Work on resumes for getting jobs and start making some $$$$.
- If there are any activities going on campus for the coming weekend.
- What time in the summer we will start studying for graduate school entrance exams, me=PCAT A.=MCAT.
- Set another time during the week to help each other with class homework that we might be having problem with.
The whole meeting lasted about 20 minutes.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Assignment # 11
Exercise #1: First step
One of the next steps toward my goal is to graduate with a bachelors degree, which I will accomplish this May. So there isn't a lot to blog about except that I am hanging in there till and busting by butt in all my classes and hopefully I get good grades this semester.
Exercise #2: Reflecting on Fear.
1. The type of resistance that I would say I am facing right is the uncertainty of the future and the frustration of time and obstacles (...getting good grades in classes, retaking classes, talking to pharmacists and professors for letter of recommendations, improving myself personal and professional..e.tc) that keeps coming up and getting in the way of the steps that I need to take to accomplish my goal.
2. This issues manifest themselves for me through crippling anxiety, fear and utter hopelessness, which have had a great impact on my academic course work and self-esteem. Even though I know and understand very well that people reach their goals at different time or in a different ways there is always that constant inner voice that presents itself in a negative way, which reveals my inner fears and insecurities every time I try to overcome them.
3. I would have to say it is a combination of both stage fright and survival fear, but there is more survival fear than stage fear. I am a very naive person, which is the reason why I am quiet and prone to making a lot of mistakes. Even though I know this about myself every time I study for a test and I know I will do good, I always experience stage fright, because all this thoughts of what if I don't do good even though I have study as much as I can starts to creep into my mind and never goes away, which always affect how I perform on a test. This eventually leads to survival fear, because if I do not perform well on a test (just one freaking test) I start to doubt myself and the uncertainty of my future starts to creep in and brings upon me fear and anxiety and I start questioning if the career path I have chosen is right for me, or if I am ever going to make it into pharmacy school and if I have to change career what would I do, because I really don't know.
4. I really can't say I know the underlying messages expect for probably that's the way the mind deals with obstacles and hardships of life, so as to in still hard work and various ways to accomplish a goal.... probably like a reverse psychology mechanism that the human mind uses to test, motivate, and encourage different methods or ways to accomplish certain goals that we human being put our mind to in order to achieve fulfillment in life. Sure this might be a cruel joke by the mind and explains why a lot of people give up or fail in their pursuit for fulfillment in life, but it's those people that keep going and never give up in face of an obstacle or failure that eventually achieve their goals.
5. The way I moved through my fears is I just stop caring and paying attention to them, when they present themselves I just ignore them and just keep plowing through any obstacles that presents itself and stops me from achieving my goal and it doesn't matter how I plow throw them as long as they fall.
One of the next steps toward my goal is to graduate with a bachelors degree, which I will accomplish this May. So there isn't a lot to blog about except that I am hanging in there till and busting by butt in all my classes and hopefully I get good grades this semester.
Exercise #2: Reflecting on Fear.
1. The type of resistance that I would say I am facing right is the uncertainty of the future and the frustration of time and obstacles (...getting good grades in classes, retaking classes, talking to pharmacists and professors for letter of recommendations, improving myself personal and professional..e.tc) that keeps coming up and getting in the way of the steps that I need to take to accomplish my goal.
2. This issues manifest themselves for me through crippling anxiety, fear and utter hopelessness, which have had a great impact on my academic course work and self-esteem. Even though I know and understand very well that people reach their goals at different time or in a different ways there is always that constant inner voice that presents itself in a negative way, which reveals my inner fears and insecurities every time I try to overcome them.
3. I would have to say it is a combination of both stage fright and survival fear, but there is more survival fear than stage fear. I am a very naive person, which is the reason why I am quiet and prone to making a lot of mistakes. Even though I know this about myself every time I study for a test and I know I will do good, I always experience stage fright, because all this thoughts of what if I don't do good even though I have study as much as I can starts to creep into my mind and never goes away, which always affect how I perform on a test. This eventually leads to survival fear, because if I do not perform well on a test (just one freaking test) I start to doubt myself and the uncertainty of my future starts to creep in and brings upon me fear and anxiety and I start questioning if the career path I have chosen is right for me, or if I am ever going to make it into pharmacy school and if I have to change career what would I do, because I really don't know.
4. I really can't say I know the underlying messages expect for probably that's the way the mind deals with obstacles and hardships of life, so as to in still hard work and various ways to accomplish a goal.... probably like a reverse psychology mechanism that the human mind uses to test, motivate, and encourage different methods or ways to accomplish certain goals that we human being put our mind to in order to achieve fulfillment in life. Sure this might be a cruel joke by the mind and explains why a lot of people give up or fail in their pursuit for fulfillment in life, but it's those people that keep going and never give up in face of an obstacle or failure that eventually achieve their goals.
5. The way I moved through my fears is I just stop caring and paying attention to them, when they present themselves I just ignore them and just keep plowing through any obstacles that presents itself and stops me from achieving my goal and it doesn't matter how I plow throw them as long as they fall.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Assignment # 10
First Steps:
The two steps that I wrote that I was going to do to move towards accomplishing my goals were to study for my Vertebrate Embryology class test that I have Thursday after spring and to finish my Anthropology essay paper that is due Tuesday after spring break. So far I have not started neither because I thought I would have time over spring break, but as the saying goes " nothing ever goes as planned". To accomplished this two steps I will start to study tonight and everyday until Thursday for my vertebrate embryology test. For my Anthropology essay that is due on Tuesday I will probably spend all Monday to finish it.
Optional Role Model Interviews :
Since I went home to the suburbs for spring break, I pay a visit to the old pharmacy that I used to work at before so that I could see how my old co-workers/friends were doing and also interview my old pharmacist boss, but she wasn't working on the day that I went to visit. I tried to interview the floater pharmacist that was working, but the pharmacy was really busy and the floater pharmacist told me to come back later, but my schedule did not permit to go back. I will probably call the pharmacy this week and interview the floater pharmacist or my old boss, which ever one is on duty this week.
The two steps that I wrote that I was going to do to move towards accomplishing my goals were to study for my Vertebrate Embryology class test that I have Thursday after spring and to finish my Anthropology essay paper that is due Tuesday after spring break. So far I have not started neither because I thought I would have time over spring break, but as the saying goes " nothing ever goes as planned". To accomplished this two steps I will start to study tonight and everyday until Thursday for my vertebrate embryology test. For my Anthropology essay that is due on Tuesday I will probably spend all Monday to finish it.
Optional Role Model Interviews :
Since I went home to the suburbs for spring break, I pay a visit to the old pharmacy that I used to work at before so that I could see how my old co-workers/friends were doing and also interview my old pharmacist boss, but she wasn't working on the day that I went to visit. I tried to interview the floater pharmacist that was working, but the pharmacy was really busy and the floater pharmacist told me to come back later, but my schedule did not permit to go back. I will probably call the pharmacy this week and interview the floater pharmacist or my old boss, which ever one is on duty this week.
Monday, March 16, 2009
Assignment #9 : Reaching out Part III
Exercise #1 : Interview 2 of your role models.
First interview : Karon H. Pharm.D
My first interview was with one of the pharmacists that I work with. It was a face to face interview and she is African American. Even though I have known her for a while now, wow... was it awkward asking her about how she became a pharmacist. I asked her what path did she took to become a pharmacists and she said:
At first I was going to go to medical school, but after I did some internship at hospitals and see first hand what doctors do and other aspects of being a doctor I decided not to pursue being a doctor because I could not handle being a doctor and it wasn't for me. But since I have taken all the science class that are towards the medical field and I didn't want it to go to waste or start over in another field. During my internship at hospitals I saw what pharmacists do and some of my friends that were already in pharmacy schools encourage me to look into being a pharmacists, which I did and here I am, I have been a pharmacist for 15 years at Wal-Mart.
I was not able to ask her other questions, because we did not have enough free time to go through the rest of the questions. I probably ask her this coming weekend when I work with her again.
Second Interview : Courtney T. Pharm. D
My second interview was with a floater pharmacist that regularly work at the pharmacy that I work at. She is Vietnamese and graduated from UIC college of pharmacy. I asked her what path did she took to become a pharmacists and she said:
I was born in Vietnam, I was put in jail for a couple of months for trying to escape from Vietnam when I was 8 or 9 years old.... ( And me IDRIS said: WHATTTTT ARE YOU SERIOUS) I am serious because back then Vietnam was a communist country and the government wouldn't let any one leave so people have to find ways to escape to other countries and finally to America. When I came to America me and my family were on welfare for a while and one of the hardest thing for me was learning English and plus when I came to America I used to live down south, which explains my southern accent sometimes. I went to UIC for my undergraduate studies and when I was in school I had to work two jobs and when I got into pharmacy school I used to study all the time because I did not want to be a mediocre pharmacist. I wanted to graduate pharmacy school with honors... ( and me IDRIS said: Did you?) yes I did. It didn't matter if it was friday night, saturday or sunday I always study everyday during pharmacy school.
During the interview the pharmacy got really busy so I was not able to ask her other questions, but I will save that for the next time she work, but I was surprise about the stuff that she told me.
Exercise #2 : Complete your planning Wall.
I have to say after finishing this part of the assignment I realized the importance of having a digital camera and that camera phone are crap. Just thought I vent a little bit.
Exercise #3 : Complete your first step.
One of the first step that I have to do to achieve my goal, is to study for the tests that I have to take for the classes that are required for my goal. I started studying for one of the three tests that I have to take this week. The first test I have to take is for the class Vertebrate Embryology lab, which requires me to memorize 100+ words of different parts of a developing chick embryo. I started studying on Sunday evening and studied with a friend this morning. I am almost done studying for it, but then again only after taking the test would I know if I know each embryo structure. The next test I have is for community psychology, which is on Thursday morning, I am going to start studying for that test tonight then alternate between community psychology and Vertebrate Embryology tomorrow and Wednesday. The last test I have is french, which I will start studying for on Thursday night and Friday morning and hopefully be ready for the test on Friday afternoon.
First interview : Karon H. Pharm.D
My first interview was with one of the pharmacists that I work with. It was a face to face interview and she is African American. Even though I have known her for a while now, wow... was it awkward asking her about how she became a pharmacist. I asked her what path did she took to become a pharmacists and she said:
At first I was going to go to medical school, but after I did some internship at hospitals and see first hand what doctors do and other aspects of being a doctor I decided not to pursue being a doctor because I could not handle being a doctor and it wasn't for me. But since I have taken all the science class that are towards the medical field and I didn't want it to go to waste or start over in another field. During my internship at hospitals I saw what pharmacists do and some of my friends that were already in pharmacy schools encourage me to look into being a pharmacists, which I did and here I am, I have been a pharmacist for 15 years at Wal-Mart.
I was not able to ask her other questions, because we did not have enough free time to go through the rest of the questions. I probably ask her this coming weekend when I work with her again.
Second Interview : Courtney T. Pharm. D
My second interview was with a floater pharmacist that regularly work at the pharmacy that I work at. She is Vietnamese and graduated from UIC college of pharmacy. I asked her what path did she took to become a pharmacists and she said:
I was born in Vietnam, I was put in jail for a couple of months for trying to escape from Vietnam when I was 8 or 9 years old.... ( And me IDRIS said: WHATTTTT ARE YOU SERIOUS) I am serious because back then Vietnam was a communist country and the government wouldn't let any one leave so people have to find ways to escape to other countries and finally to America. When I came to America me and my family were on welfare for a while and one of the hardest thing for me was learning English and plus when I came to America I used to live down south, which explains my southern accent sometimes. I went to UIC for my undergraduate studies and when I was in school I had to work two jobs and when I got into pharmacy school I used to study all the time because I did not want to be a mediocre pharmacist. I wanted to graduate pharmacy school with honors... ( and me IDRIS said: Did you?) yes I did. It didn't matter if it was friday night, saturday or sunday I always study everyday during pharmacy school.
During the interview the pharmacy got really busy so I was not able to ask her other questions, but I will save that for the next time she work, but I was surprise about the stuff that she told me.
Exercise #2 : Complete your planning Wall.
I have to say after finishing this part of the assignment I realized the importance of having a digital camera and that camera phone are crap. Just thought I vent a little bit.
Exercise #3 : Complete your first step.
One of the first step that I have to do to achieve my goal, is to study for the tests that I have to take for the classes that are required for my goal. I started studying for one of the three tests that I have to take this week. The first test I have to take is for the class Vertebrate Embryology lab, which requires me to memorize 100+ words of different parts of a developing chick embryo. I started studying on Sunday evening and studied with a friend this morning. I am almost done studying for it, but then again only after taking the test would I know if I know each embryo structure. The next test I have is for community psychology, which is on Thursday morning, I am going to start studying for that test tonight then alternate between community psychology and Vertebrate Embryology tomorrow and Wednesday. The last test I have is french, which I will start studying for on Thursday night and Friday morning and hopefully be ready for the test on Friday afternoon.
Monday, March 2, 2009
Assignment # 7
I was not able to get in touch with any of my role models, due to scheduling conflicts and lack of means of communicating with them over the internet, since most of my role models are still stuck in the age of big brick looking cell phones, big floppy disks, computers with Kilobytes RAM and dial up connections. But hopefully I will be able to figure out something by next week.
And for some odd reason I am missing and can't find my in class activity about the activities I love... damn why is it I have been forgetting where I put stuff lately, crap! hopefully Alzheimer is not kicking in yet.
And for some odd reason I am missing and can't find my in class activity about the activities I love... damn why is it I have been forgetting where I put stuff lately, crap! hopefully Alzheimer is not kicking in yet.
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