Over the course of this school year, I feel like inlab has helped me improve as a communicator. In humanities, most of our project are done in groups, which has helped me learn how to better communicate with other people and express my ideas. Right now, I am in a group of five people, which posed multiple challenges in the beginning of our project. We were constantly stepping over each other’s toes and were always speaking over each other, which resulted in our project not improving as much as it could of. Experincing something like this forced myself and the other members of our group to improve our communication ability so we could work better together and improve our work. Another example of my communication ability improving is when our humanities class built our Germany memorial, when again, we were assigned to work in groups. In this project, my partner and I texted one another multiple times after school hours in order to be prepared for the following day. This form of communication was very effective and greatly improved our project, as it allowed us to focus on building the project during the class time we had to do so instead of gathering materials and forming a desgin.
When I come accross difficult porblems, I typically immidietly give up without even attempting to solve it. This is an issue that I came across multiple times in bio, which is my weakest subject. Early in the year, I was in way too difficult of a class for science, and because of this, I stumbled early on in the year. Most concepts we learned didn’t stick with me all that well, and because of this, I didn’t even know where to begin when it came time to study for tests and quizes. At the end of second quarter, I had a D in the class, and my midterm grade would determine whether I would pass or not. During this time, I started studying very hard and ended up eventually scored well on the midterm. This experience showed me that when I was forced to, I could buckle down and solve complex problems when there was no other option. For the future, I need to teach myself discipline and find a way to get myself to work hard by myself so I can bring out the best in me academically.
Joe 