Let’s Begin Actively Brainstorming for Project #1
Project #1 is due in two weeks (10/20)! If you haven’t already, now is the time to think about what you might want to write about. Most importantly, let’s focus on what matters to you most out of the 50+ paragraphs you have written about yourself for this class. What stands out to you as potential topics that you can begin to think about for Project #1?
Directions
- Reread the assignment for Project #1.
- Watch the entire class Zoom video for 10/6 in Google Drive folder so you understand how to approach Project #1 as a process.
- Write two paragraphs in response to things that you have written about previously in this class that you think might be starting points for Project #1. Specifically, what have you written about yourself, or noticed within the context of this class, that you feel you understand better, have clarity on, or are interested in exploring more. Elaborate. Give me a two paragraph analysis!
Grading
This is class discussion work for our online course. Please post your response as a comment. These are due by Sunday at 11:59 p.m. during the Week they are assigned, making this one is due 10/11/20. A complete response is worth up to 15 points.
What I have written was about myself and what I believe in. I still believe that I am consistent. I know once I have my eyes set on a goal I don’t stop working on it till I complete it. Every time I have a goal and tell someone about it, they always doubt me, and sometimes I would believe it and be to scare to complete my goals, but over time I learned that people would doubt me only because they wouldn’t do what I have my mindset for and would be too afraid to take the step forward. One of my big goals is that I want to make an impact in the world, and everyone I talk to always doubt me. They tell me many things like, I can’t do anything or that I’m too young to even know what I wanna do. Sometimes I believe it but only because I don’t have a plan on how I want to impact the world.
At the end of the day, I want to show my siblings that hard work does pay off in the end. I only get scared when I think what if I make a hard goal and if I fail it? Is that a bad example for my siblings? I’m the oldest of 5 siblings 2 girls and 3 boys. I want to show my two baby sisters, that women don’t need a man to be successful. I know it will be hard but nothing is impossible if you put your mind to it
Certain things that I have written previously that may be starting points for project 1 is when I wrote about myself in an assignment that was given at the beginning of the semester where I talked about the problems that I had and about the things that I liked, plus about my life in general. Besides, other previous writings that I can use is when I talked about the obstacles that came across my way and how those obstacles shaped me, and as a result of that, I am how I am. Furthermore, another starting point would be when I wrote about how this pandemic has impacted me negatively; despite it, I learned to learn from it and not think about the what if because I will only bring myself down. However, I thought about the good things that happened because of it, even though it was hard to think of any good stuff.
I feel like there are different aspects about myself that I would want to explore more about when I am writing as who I am exactly as a writer and as a person because it helps out to get to know one through their writing. After all, I always felt that I forgot certain things, but when I wrote in previous papers when I read it, it was like I always reminded myself about the bad moments and not the good moments. However, now I understand that I should write my good moments and bad moments in a separate paper because I do have good moments, but it is hard to find them because my worst moments weigh more for me.
One thing I have previously talked about and written in class is about the change I went through when I first moved to this country. Learning a new language, a new culture, meeting new people, these were all things that I had to learn to do when I moved here and they were the things that made me the way I am today. Those were the things that shaped me. If my experience when I first moved here had been easy, then perhaps I would not appreciate where I am. Perhaps if I had not encountered all the closed doors, all the problems, all the people who one day tried to put me down, then I would have never had to push myself harder to become who I really wanted to become. I can also say that the experience of living here helped me appreciate my parents, because they had been through the same experience, but alone. Without their parents or loved ones, and I could only imagine how hard that was. It was this realization that led me to want to continue my education and be someone in life.
The next topic I want to focus on in my Project #2 is when I participated in the Careers through Culinary Arts Program Cooking Competition for Scholarships, and this was the event that would help me continue my college education. Going to college was important to me because it felt like a way to show that I appreciated my parents and their efforts to bring me here. I also wanted to not fit the stereotype that others had for me my whole life. People believed I would never go to college or that I would not even learn English. I wanted to be able to prove that I could be someone in life. Sometimes I wonder if the reason I worked so hard in school was because of the things I heard people talk about me. I also wonder if those things had not happened then perhaps maybe I would have fit the standards people had for me. Writing this assignment will probably help me learn a little bit more about myself.
One of the topics I wanted to talk about was the reality of losing someone special like one of your parents. I want to focus on this because I want to open up myself and elaborate on what it feels like to go through such a life changing experience. Going through that was honestly a never ending rollercoaster, one day it was okay and then the next day it was three times harder. Its hard to go through something like this which is why I want to focus on it because I want to be able to make connections with things that are normalized but also connect to my past self. I believe the main thing in this assignment is to make connections which is why I want to talk about how this hard time has lead me to growth and independence because what was once me 3 years ago is not what I am today.
Another topic I had in mind was to focus on the exceptions we face. I feel like personally there are situations which everything just piles onto of you and you’re expected to succeed no matter what, which is as tough as it sounds. I want to focus on this because because there are probably many people who would feel the same way or even worse. As hispanics there are a lot of things that are so normalized, like the examples included in how to tame a wild tongue, but growing up you kind of get tired of doing the same routine and never being able to fall back and catch a rest. I believe it would be a good topic to talk about because its something that is so generalized and its always good to bring the light onto something that many people can relate to. Lastly I would connect my own ideas, strengths and weaknesses in order to conclude how these experienced have shaped me today but also what I want to do in oder to grow from this experience.
For project #1 I would like to focus on how my high school years changed me as a person. I will talk about my weaknesses and strengths, how I overcame situations in my life. Throughout my all my four years in high school ive learned alot about friendships and that you are alone at the end of the day. I was hurt a lot, like a whole but I learned from it and it took me around 3 years to figure it out. Senior year was the best year I had the people that I needed around me and believe or not I was always happy.
Another topic would be about how I was very much alone without my parents, like they were with me but never to talk. It was always just me and my sister and I really enjoyed the fact the she was a parent for me. I wish sometime that my parents where there for me but I would be the strong independent person that I am now. I have learned so much on my own have have moved on from a lot of stuff, Im glad with the results so far.
For project one, the ideas that would be great to include in my essay are my strengths and weaknesses, task I enjoy to do in a everyday basis, situations that helped me become a better person, things I can improve in, and challenges I have overcome in life. All those ideas would be good to include in my essay because it will show the reader the type of person I am and the different things I am interested in. I want my reader to build a connection with me and have similarities. There are many challenges I have overcome and I want to show my reader the steps it took me to overcome those challenges. In life we all go through ups and downs and those ups and down help shape us into a better person. In this class, I have written many paragraphs that show who I am and what I like to do. For example, I have written 40 paragraphs and those paragraphs show you the experiences that define me and who I am. Those 40 paragraphs helped me become a better writer and helped me realize they type of person I am. In addition, there are many things I am interested in and would like to explore. I would like to include all that information in my essay. I would like to also include lessons I have learned and what those lessons taught me in life. It is important to learn from your mistakes and learn from the lessons that life is trying to teach you. If you don’t learn those lessons, it will be taught over and over until changes are made.There are many times where I have suffered and felt unhappy. Those times made me stronger and helped me build more strength. In my essay, I want to truly show the reader how life is not always perfect and all humans go through things.
Hi Darimari,
You have a lot of ground to cover here. How will you narrow it down as you work through your project?
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In this project, I would like to focus on the academic development that I carry out due to the pandemic-covid19, in the recent year. New York City students have been through difficult and distressing times. The preparations for this year have been different from other years. The use of technology has been essential for communication with my educators, so I consider it a topic to discuss in this essay. Also, the changes have affected my academic habits. I am not a fan of technology, but I have adapted during virtual classes. I have faced some problems in relation to my education and my future, the difficulties that a student can have in the first year of college. I consider it important to develop the objectives-goals and thoughts that led me to make the decision to continue studying and why I chose it. I have chosen this part of my experience because it has affected us (students) all in some way, differently.
The expected performance academic is one of the concerns for many students like my classmates and me. I am considering my insights and perspectives of my experiences. Personally, I will expose some experiences about adapting to the new normal, concerns in the academic and work areas. I hope that when we graduate, we can develop and test our skills and values in the hospitality field. There are many aspects to cover and much to say, but I consider these to be the most significant ideas that I have to develop in this essay.
As for project #1,the ideas that would be great to write about is the strength I lost and the lesson I learned after a terrible situation that has took over my mental and physical state. I can go ahead and say I went through a heartbreak and behaved like a depressed teenager. I thought my life was in hell and nobody understand how I felt no matter how much signs I shown. I have learned that no matter if your the happiest person on earth,there is things that will break that happiness and make you think that,yes bad things happen to any type of person whether your bad or good. Also I learned that,life is just life and we should go through it and always keep our head up and head for success no matter the challenges we go through.
The other idea I learned about is I tend to think nothing will happen to me and everything will just go as planned in my head,total mistake. I overthink situations but I doubt the ideas that I am thinking but unfortunately they were true. There is always that second voice in my head that tells me something and I fully doubt it,so it seems that I have to listen to it from now on. My mental state at the moment is healing and I can see my happiness is being returned slowly. I love being happy and I learned that,I should be the person that should only makes me happy. That is the biggest lesson of all.