Learning Revolution!

If I had unlimited time and resources, I would learn Spanish, French, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Slovak, and Russian. I think language is so interesting and if I had unlimited time I would love to learn many more languages because it is such a valuable resource.

I believe attitude is more influential than aptitude. Though aptitude is very important, attitude seems more important. You could have all the aptitude in the world and have no attitude and that would be a waste of God’s gifts to you. Attitude makes the difference. Attitude can either dramatically accelerate you forwards or backwards but when it accelerates you forward, the sky is the limit.

I don’t necessarily believe the current grading system should be abolished but rather restructured. I feel like so many students just try to “get by.” Therefore, I believe grades below 80 percent should be considered failing. Also something I see a lot (outside of my classes) are students who don’t work at all and then expect their teacher to pass them with a 70 when they deserve to fail. I think failure is something schools have reduced too much. Sometimes it takes a flat out failure to teach you a lesson. However, when students are handed a passing grade with no effort, they believe this will happen to them the rest of their lives and it actually won’t. That is one area I think should be changed.

The Honors Mentorship Program has definitely brought to my attention the necessity of computer skills. Though I consider my computer skills to be at an intermediate level, there is still a lot I don’t know, especially in the medical field. All of my mentorship activities require computers including looking through past medical files and inputting data into computer databases. Computers will always be around so it has made realize that it is really important to adapt or else technology will keep progressing without you.