For my Unit 1 assignment, one event from my life that I can use and changed my views on education was back in my junior and senior year of high school. They were very difficult years of my life and it profoundly changed everything I thought I was supposed to be doing as a student trying to learn and be the best that I could be. The reasons for what and why I was studying so hard for changed drastically and it changed my perspective on life itself and what I was living for past being a student in school.
One topic I can think of for the Unit 1 assignment is how to keep yourself together through times of significant change. From childhood, through our teenage years, and then finally to the beginning of our adult lives we go through such drastic changes in ourselves both within us and around us. Having the mental skills to cope with those changes can allow us to better comprehend ourselves in truly understanding what we want to do in order to achieve as close to the most ideal life as possible that is the best for our individual needs both in school and outside of it.
One idea that can be used for the Unit 1 assignment is that you don’t have to aim big in order to feel like your are successful. A lot of people from the moment they enter school believe that this is where they have to give it all they have or else they won’t be able to live a happy life when that is simply not true. You don’t have to go to Harvard or Columbia University and accumulate hundreds of thousands of dollars in student loan debt in order to feel like you succeeded. You don’t have to be the top of your class in order to feel like you won and you did what you were supposed to do. Everything should be based on what you believe your needs are and not what institutions and society deem you should do in order to have the best chance at living. There are an endless number of ways to live and whether you are the CEO of a major corporation or just a simple sanitation worker, you can have a chance at being happy.
