Jose Adan Pena

LR Final

Closing my eyes, I have realized that there is so many things that I still need to perceive in many different point of views.  My pilgrimage began the moment I saw what my goals in life were. Perceiving obstacles was not a problem. My biggest fear as a student was setting my goals in life. Every time I think about my future I see myself lost without a hope of achieving my dream of becoming a very successful pediatrician. This mood disorder only leads to a major depressive disorder. Perhaps you know what depression feels like. If you are like most college students, at some time during this year more likely the dark month of winter than the bright days of summer you will probably experience a few of the symptoms of depression. You might feel deeply discourage about the future, dissatisfied with your life, or isolated from others. You might even lack the energy to get things done; or even wonder if you were better off dead. It only took the advice of brilliant man who said, “Hammer your thoughts into unity” which help me understand life into a different point of view.

Trying to sum up the entire semester of my Freshman Seminar I would say that everything that I experience; the trip to the museum, the ponds, Dobbie’s House, the trip to nature, and the pleasant time at Waller Creek seems as if I am reliving this experiences. By focusing on the goals I set for myself I can more easily adjust all the excessive amount of data which is stored in my long term memory which in turn can help me understand what life is all about?  I have also adjusted methods of using mnemonic devices that are very useful when it comes into memorizing facts. I have adapted many different concepts in which I can retain a lavish amount of information in which I believe will be helpful when I establish my motive in life.

My time at Dr. Bump’s class was filled with laughter, tears of frustration, failures and accomplishments that I never dreamed could be.  With the guidance and tutorage of Dr Bump, I learned to assemble learning centers, I have learned time management, and most importantly I learned that life is full of many pleasant moments. With the guidance of Dr. Bump and with the help of my peers I have realized the important aspects that are established in our thoughts. Most importantly, I established my pilgrimage when I saw my surrounding and what life was offering me. My first project of the year was the Road Map. Doing the road map I have seen all the bumps that I have encountered through out my years in life. At the beginning of my childhood years I saw how difficult it was when I had to share my toys with my significant others. At my formal operation stage I was able to think outside my awareness. The road map was a very important because it enabled me with a lavish amount of data that I was unaware off.. I loved the idea of discovery learning and how it has changed my thinking into a more positive aspect. My favorite thing about this class is that Dr. Bump is a very self trusted person in which I can trust. He gives you lots of opportunity to get extra credit. For example he has given me and opportunity to mange and A in this class only if I prove to him that I am willing to take any risk that is necessary to accomplish my task . This class in general has changed every aspect of my learning life especially my grammatical errors I used to make when I wrote a six page essay for my rhetoric class. I know stand outside my self awareness and I see everything that I have gone thought in the eyes of another person…………

In life you have one shot, one opening, you either grab it or you let it go. José Adan Pena, choose to strive to the top, so he decided to attend to the University of Texas at Austin.  He wants to pursue a career as a Pediatrician. His plans is to get a Biochem major then he want to be enroll in a medical school to accomplish his deepest desire of becoming a Pediatrician. . He has selected to research the medical profession of pediatrics, due to his life-long desire for a career in pediatric medicine .Ever since he was a small kid his passion of becoming a Pediatrician was growing due to the admiration of his Pediatric.  He has decided that he wants to work in and around with children and know that in order to fulfill his dream he will have to put in a lot of hard work and time.  Jose Adan Pena is a student who can accomplish things because he is a really devoted student who is willing to take many risks in life to accomplish his deepest desire. Looking for the right choices and enabling every retrieval cue that he could get is the most astonishing advantage of being a student in the University of Texas at Austin.

Jose Adan Pena has successfully accomplished his goal of finding his self identity. This problem occurs mostly during your adolescence year. You don’t know what identity you must wear in order to classify the person that you are. Jose Adan was capable of establishing his identity and fulfilling his phobias of not getting good grades in school. At the beginning of his college years his anxiety towards school was only taking him apart. His experience of being independent and establishing goals for himself is the leading factors of his success. Being independent throughout his semester in Austin is a learning experience in which he sees how difficult life can get without the help of parents. His learning style is something that is extremely useful. He is now capable of finding the environment where his learning will flourish. He doesn’t depend on many people, but in the past he always had someone there in his shoulder pushing him to the limit. Seeing everything from the beginning of the class Jose Adan Pena can now say that he had the privilege of sharing his learning experience with friends in which he can trust without the fear of losing their trust. A weakness that has to change is his confident. On the very first day of his Biology class he felt weak in contrast with the rest of the class. The students where already talking about cell diffusion, and about the founders of the cell theory. Jose Adan had doubt in his character. He felt that he was unable to accomplish things. Everything was falling apart, when he realized that the only way to successes in life is being a more competitive student. Jose Adan Pena proposed that he was never going to put his identity at the bottom of the rung. Instead of seeing things in a very negative point of view he has realized the importance of establishing a self reliable character that will lead you only to success. Jose Adan Pena , is ready for action. His motto is try to accomplish your dreams so you can be a more self reliable person. As Jose Adan Pena was struggling with his inner thoughts, his will, enabled him to perceive his goals and conquer the world as Napoleon Bonaparte did. As a student and as a friend, Jose Adan is a person who can be trusted and if you ever need the need for a friend you know that Jose is a person who you can trust. At the beginning of his college years , Jose Adan Pena felt lost and depress; his whole vision of being in a perfect University diminish the moment he saw how hard life was getting. It is very rare when a person cannot understand the meaning of getting and education. You see in every corner of the world, students having parities, doing drugs, having intimate relationships and forgetting the fact about perusing an education that you can rely in the future. Jose Adan Pena is a person that controls his emotion and is willing to leave everything behind just to pursue his dream of being a Pediatrician. He has already accomplish a section of his life in which he feels overconfident that life in this university is simple enough only if you have the proper material to handle all the pressure that he encounters in every corner of this university. Jose Adan Pena has established the agenda he needs in order to succeed in life. At the beginning when he was taking a freshman seminar he felt lost with his own thoughts. He felt alone and depress because he was the only Mexican American in his class. Now his perseverance is leading him into a more self reliable, person. His biggest accomplishment is meeting many different kinds of people. Who would have thought that he had the talent of making friends at the blink of the eye? Another accomplishment is learning how to balance his schedule. At the beginning of the semester José Adan was always late to his classes. He was unorganized; he used the same notebook for all of his classes. Seeing all the negative aspects, he was able to accommodate many different traits and established every single trait into a more positive source.  He has also established better studying habits. With the help of many retrieval cues, chunking information into a more self reliable source and using other mnemonic devices he has store more information into his long term memory. He can also encode different kinds of information and used that information in the long run of his life. As a student and as person he is capable of choosing different kinds of tactics that can help him establish a more positive character. His self-esteem and his motive for life are more positive.

Jose Adan Pena has also realized that whenever he makes a mistake in life he tries to manipulate and construct a schema that will enable him not to commit the same mistake over and over. His schema is something that he can adapt whenever he experience different kinds of aspects in his life.  He can also accommodate his schema into other learning experience. A brilliant person once said, ‘you need to assimilate and accommodate your schema to have a better understanding of life’.

Jose Adan major concern is being along with out his family. His parents are the most important people in his life. Without the help of his parent he wouldn’t have the courage to face the world and challenge every obstacle that he has encountered. Everything around him is now more comprehensible. He has found the answer too many of his problems. Now everything seems more reliable due to the fact that I perceive things in a more positive point of view. His thoughts of becoming one day a very successful person are always in touch with his awareness. To sum everything that I have wrote in this paper. I, Jose Adan Pena, have come to a critical point in my life where I have established the proper ingredients that will lead my career into a more understandable life.  My goals, my agenda for life are a top of my mind and I only need a few more ideas and concepts that I need to adjust. I can say that my identity now is more comprehensible now that I have established my goals and my agenda for life.