Personal Reflective Essay: Modeling Diversity

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The Problem I Want to Solve

From the moment I stepped foot on campus I’ve continuously wondered how I can use this as an education investment that will pay off down the line. After reading the Bain chapter I felt that my problem had been confirmed. This is my ultimate goal and issue that I have to resolve. If I can solve this problem, the work I put in and the hours spent were all worth it and I will have gained the most satisfying gratification of them all, a job offer (or 5).

Modeling Diversity & Inclusion

Fortunately, from what I’ve experienced, IU is an inclusion and relatively easy going campus. I don’t expect that I will face much oppression as a Hispanic student as it is relatively common on campus. By creating diversity initiatives
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By seeing people’s worth, you are better able to utilize them for projects and assignments. In group work for example, one of my roles I take on is discovering people’s strengths and weakness and applying them to the project. This works very similarly with understanding. I am able to view people’s lives in common and overlapping ways. By discovering what makes someone tick, you are much abler to connect with that person on a deeper basis. One concept that I do have an issue with is knowledge of societal inequities. This idea, which I find very counterproductive to not grouping people together has always baffled me. I understand that idea that being underrepresented excluded certain communities from growing and succeeding. But by making these assumptions, you group people together and lower the standards for an entire group of

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