I really believe that I have changed since the past 10 weeks plus 3 weeks of winter break, expanding my comfort zone overall. If you talked to me in my fall quarter vs my winter quarter, you would be surprised how different I was. Fall-quarter-me would be less likely to approach people to build friends, focus only on studies and would overall be clueless with things going around him. Winter-quarter-me would approach more people, talk to them, get to know them despite my shyness, divide my focus between studies, friends, and family, and have a better understanding with what I am getting myself into. To conclude what my mind was made up of during the transformation, I made a brain map which tells what my brain matter consisted of.
I chose these specific ones because they were really on my mind. To expand my comfort zone with people, I decided to talk to my hall mates, attend events and made plans. I attended different professional events to improve my networking skills. For my academics, I think about my Grades/GPA to motivate to study harder/smarter for my classes, while keeping in my mind about the major I want: Computer Science. This also keeps me motivated as my career life will receive a huge boost from CS. Of course, I utilize different sites, such as LinkedIn and Handshake to make myself available to the job market. Overall, I learn from my mistakes to improve my personal-self. To balance my important side, I often watch Netflix to pass time, play video games, and love to think about the philosophy of life in general. When playing video games, I play with friends as this also helps me de-stress from life in general, talking about our lives while playing Smash or other video games. At the same time, I love to let my mind wander into the philosophy of life, looking at what life is from an individual, societal, and global point of view. While it’s not on the brain map, sleep is an essential part of my college survival and the best way to relax.
Constantly balancing and working on myself, I was able to slowly break from my shyness, which also resulted in improving my confidence as well. Overall, I believe that I made good choices for myself because I improved myself from before. Obviously, there were some negatives, but every coin has two sides to it. With the end of winter quarter, I realized I need more naps, and saw how time flew by like a breeze; time passed by too fast. The other challenge I faced is time management because I noticed hanging out with people took a good chunk of my time, which compromised my time for sleep, as I need time to study. Nevertheless, I am happy with the changes and excited as I head into the Spring quarter, ready to face new challenges and overcome difficulties.