Having faculty mentor will aid in my success here at Iowa State because of many reasons. If you really think about it having a mentor that is a faculty member is a very smart plan of action. There are many experience in a field of study that you might be interested in and by talking to someone who has been through that kind of experience would be very smart. They can help to give you some insight into it that you may not have thought about before. They can also help you find the best way to get the opportunity to have the experiences that you are interested in.
For me I don’t really know what area that I want to pursue and so that makes it hard to know who would be the “best” faculty mentor. So I suppose it would be a good thing for me to figure out a plan of action for what I want to do with my life. Sadly that is something that is much easier said than done.
Even though I don’t really have a faculty mentor right now I know how much it was helpful in high school so I do know how important they can be.
Monday, November 9, 2009
Monday, October 12, 2009
An Organization That I Joined
When I went to the ClubFest it was completely crazy. There were so many people all trying to get the chance to join really great clubs and organizations. An organization that I found and really like was the St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church Student Group. This group is designed to be a way for students to feel more a part of the Church.
St. Thomas Church holds a thursday night liturgy also known as TNL that is a student planned and a “come as you are” Mass. Its just a really fun way to go to church and really be apart of the Mass. As a part of this organization I have had so many opportunities to do a very wide range of activities. One that I have really liked is singing with the choir. This has been my favorite activity because it reminds me a lot of home. I always really liked singing at church and getting to help lead everyone in the songs. So this was a really cool thing to find here at Iowa State. This involvement will help me in the future because it provide a low key way to continue being part of the church which was something that is very important to me.
I really like this organization and they are very welcoming and make it very easy to feel a part of the group and how they provide the chance for me to continue something that is important to me.
St. Thomas Church holds a thursday night liturgy also known as TNL that is a student planned and a “come as you are” Mass. Its just a really fun way to go to church and really be apart of the Mass. As a part of this organization I have had so many opportunities to do a very wide range of activities. One that I have really liked is singing with the choir. This has been my favorite activity because it reminds me a lot of home. I always really liked singing at church and getting to help lead everyone in the songs. So this was a really cool thing to find here at Iowa State. This involvement will help me in the future because it provide a low key way to continue being part of the church which was something that is very important to me.
I really like this organization and they are very welcoming and make it very easy to feel a part of the group and how they provide the chance for me to continue something that is important to me.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
A Time When I Was at My Best and Wasn't at My Best
There is a time in everyone life that you have to do the best that you can to help a team or group of people reach the goal you had set for yourselves. This time always seems to fall in a time when there are so many things that are in need of your attention. My junior year of high school I had just such an experience.
It was the last week of rehearsal for our schools spring play. We were doing the show “Cheaper By the Dozen” and there were so many things that I had to deal with at the same time. During this week I part of many activities including finishing building and painting the set for the show, making sure I knew all my lines for the show, normal everyday homework and I also was driving half an hour to get to physical therapy twice a week because of my ACL surgery earlier that fall.
On Wednesday of that week I went up to Iowa State to attend an engineering work shop. While up in Ames I became sick because of all the stress I had been under that passed few days. So I ending up coming home early from the work shop, but I still had to go to play practice that night and work on finishing the set. So when I got home from Ames I had time for a short nap and then I had to be back at school.
Even though I still wasn't feeling well I went to practice and did the best I could. This became harder than I had thought it was going to be when my knee started to really bother me, but I went through the pain and by the end of the night I couldn't even bend my knee. There were many times during the night that I really wanted to just say, “Sorry that’s it, I’m going home. I can’t do this right now.” But I knew that this wasn't an option for many reasons. The whole cast was counting on me knowing my part for the show and they were also counting on me to help finish building the set. I knew that no matter how much I wanted to just give up and give in to the pain that I had to keep going.
I learned a lot about myself that night. I was still just learning how to deal with the fact that my knee wasn't what it had been and that night I found out that I could still do things that I had wanted to do before, it just took more work. In some ways it was one of the greatest things I could have gone through because it taught me that in order to do something right it takes more work, and that even though I had been through the experience of having knee surgery, I could still do the things that I had done before. It was just going to take more work on my part.
It was the last week of rehearsal for our schools spring play. We were doing the show “Cheaper By the Dozen” and there were so many things that I had to deal with at the same time. During this week I part of many activities including finishing building and painting the set for the show, making sure I knew all my lines for the show, normal everyday homework and I also was driving half an hour to get to physical therapy twice a week because of my ACL surgery earlier that fall.
On Wednesday of that week I went up to Iowa State to attend an engineering work shop. While up in Ames I became sick because of all the stress I had been under that passed few days. So I ending up coming home early from the work shop, but I still had to go to play practice that night and work on finishing the set. So when I got home from Ames I had time for a short nap and then I had to be back at school.
Even though I still wasn't feeling well I went to practice and did the best I could. This became harder than I had thought it was going to be when my knee started to really bother me, but I went through the pain and by the end of the night I couldn't even bend my knee. There were many times during the night that I really wanted to just say, “Sorry that’s it, I’m going home. I can’t do this right now.” But I knew that this wasn't an option for many reasons. The whole cast was counting on me knowing my part for the show and they were also counting on me to help finish building the set. I knew that no matter how much I wanted to just give up and give in to the pain that I had to keep going.
I learned a lot about myself that night. I was still just learning how to deal with the fact that my knee wasn't what it had been and that night I found out that I could still do things that I had wanted to do before, it just took more work. In some ways it was one of the greatest things I could have gone through because it taught me that in order to do something right it takes more work, and that even though I had been through the experience of having knee surgery, I could still do the things that I had done before. It was just going to take more work on my part.
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