An academic experience that I have completed that has helped me make progress toward my goals is the Honors 110 speech and communication class. When I first started college, I was very uncomfortable speaking in front of others and I stumbled upon my words when I talked to people with authority. From that course, I learned that I was good at memorization and the synthesis of different knowledge and ideas. In our persuasive speech, we were to have actions that college students could do to bring change about topic. From that experience, it showed me the importance of civic engagement in bring about change and spurring others to action and knowledge creation in trying to solve problems. Through the experience of writing multiple speeches and presenting
