St. Bernard Reflection

My time at St. Bernard has taught me many skills that I will use both in college and throughout the rest of my life. I would like to believe that I am a very different person from the frightened fourteen year old I came to St. Bernard as four years ago- smarter, more adaptable, more accepting, more critical of myself and others. It is hard to say how much of the change can be directly credited to St. Bernard, but the growing up and learning I have done has mostly taken place here, both inside and outside of the classroom. You can grow older and more mature anywhere, but there is something about St. Bernard that makes it special, something unique in the classes, the campus, and the atmosphere. Four years is a long time, but now, at the end of them, …show more content…
Bernard is time management. There have been times when my schedule has become hectic, but I have learned that if I plan my time and keep track of all the work I need to do, I can both do all the things I need to and have free time to do what I want. While time management is a difficult thing to learn, it is invaluable no matter what you are doing. I hope I retain my time management abilities through college and beyond. The abilities to innovate and criticize may seem like entirely different things, but they are actually two sides of the same coin. If change is to occur, one must first criticize- identify that something is wrong and point it out. Then, one must innovate- creatively change it for the better. I cannot say for sure that I have learned these things at St. Bernard. Learning to criticize seems to be the easier part, and I believe I have learned that, but it seems that at St. Bernard the criticism is rarely channeled into innovation. I do not know if this is a failure on the students’ parts or on the administration’s, but I believe that innovation is a skill I probably still need to work on