What makes us who we are? We need to learn how to identify our identity in order to develop our personality. Most of the times it is really hard to identity what we are so we tend be develop a fake identity. In society people live in two worlds where one world is of your home life and the other world is of your public life in society. It is very hard to balance your life in both worlds because it makes it difficult to choose which world represents you more. As I started growing up I used to believe that life had no point. It was a daily routine where people do many things at the same time. What is the point of life, if you don’t have the chance of doing different things from everyone? We are like cars produce in the same assembly line. Eventually I lost my interest in every thing and held an indifferent attitude instead. When I graduated from high school I didn’t know what life had to offer me. Instead of achieving like other students, I decided to work with my father as a full time worker. Work was pretty hectic and it got to the point where I had to distinguished reality with unreality. Working six days a week was not the live I was waiting for. It was either work and be like my father or attend the University of Texas at Austin.

            As a student of the University of Texas at Austin, I had the choice of choosing classes that would help unlock my self awareness.  The class that got most of my attention was the Freshman Seminar. As a member of the FS, I feel I have learn so much more than I ever expected to.  Stubbornly, I feel like I was going to be able to reject the influence of this class away, but I have now been proven wrong. The class in general has been so important, that I have realized the importance of having friends who you can trust and communicate with the fear of rejection. I have been affected in such a way, that even my life habits have been altered or changed. I also feel I have learned more than before because of the mistakes I’ve made.  I learned to communicate with different people and this bonding has influence my character in which I can correlate their experience with my learning experiences. I learned some extremely valuable aspects of English that I have attempted to apply in all my work.  I can see the difference since the time I started taking this course. In high school it was very stressful giving speeches and presentations to large group of people, especially courses dealing with communication. Many times as a student I had to present presentation proving the point I was trying to get. I even remember the time I screw up in a community college. I had to present information about a famous artistic person from the Renaissance period. Being in front of a large number of students was very hard for me. I felt like if I was at the North Pole, my whole body was stiff that my consciousness was not in tact. Now I can correlate what I have learned in this class in the process of finishing a paper in a simpler fashion.

Everything that I learn I try to store in my long term memory. When the time comes it is my job to retrieve this information and apply it to where it is necessary.  Most of the time it is very hard to encode what I see, it is like if I am suffering from source amnesia. I have learn many different concept in the University of Texas but I feel I still need to learn to automatically apply the new forms, styles, and implications in my work before the omission is brought to my attention.  I am in a constant battle with my memory to include everything I’ve learned into my class work.  Although, I am winning the battle and making the attempt to completely adjust to the different kinds of learning. “The American Psychologist and Educator, Howard Gardner’s (1993) theory of multiple intelligences suggests that there are a number of distinct forms of intelligence that each individual possesses in varying degrees. Gardner proposes seven primary forms of intelligence: linguistic, musical, logical-mathematical, spatial, body-kinesthetic, intrapersonal and interpersonal.”(MYERS). As Gardner said, “there are many different kind of intelligence certain individual poses better than others.”  With the help of different classes, I have discover that I posses different kind of intelligence such as spatial, logical, and intrapersonal. This type of intelligence reveals that I will make a successful mathematician as well as a surgeon. The best thing I can say about my learning style is that I never give up even thought I might take days or weeks to solve a solution to a problem. To solve a problem I use many kinds of mnemonic devices which helps retrieve information outside my awareness. One type of mnemonic device in which it retrieves information easier and faster is chunking. Chunking which is the organization of units into a manageable fashion facilitates my memory to encode, store and retrieve information faster.

Although I have learned many different kinds of concepts and ideas in which to apply, I can now face critical points in my life and adjust to these points within time. I feel extremely for the opportunity I have to be in a class like this.  I am appreciative for the learning community and the lengthy time we get to spend in class.  I understand that there is much more for me to know and learn, but I will make a full out effort in obtaining the best instruction I possibly can now and later.  I will forever remember the self, content and rhetorical knowledge I’ve learned from this class as my life is deeply enriched.