UC Personal Insight Prompts
Prompt #2 To me, creativity is the expression of one’s beliefs and interests. It is one’s imagination that is expressed through themselves and their personality. I believe creativity ties in with innovation, individuality, and inventiveness. I not only believe that creativity is important, I believe that it is a necessity. It is the key to expression and individuality and without it, our personalities will be dull and lifeless. Creativity helps me in and out of my classroom as it helps me develop social skills and friendships through collaborative work and shared interests. I have gained many friendships from sharing the same interests and similar expressions of creativity. With my new friendships, I have developed …show more content…
The multiple skills that I have developed and mastered helped shape me to become the person that I am today, a hardworking and devoted student. A skill that I have mastered greatly is the ability to take care of situations in a short amount of time; in other words, critical thinking. This skill has helped me out greatly when I was pushed to solve issues or aid to problems in a way that is quick yet efficient. Examples of when critical thinking had helped me are taking exams, answering questions asked by teachers and solving problems, from math to the real world. Critical thinking is meaningful to me as it was hard to accomplish and perfect. Before high school, I was not one who could get things done quickly; I always took my time in getting things done, which did not help whatsoever in many different scenarios. My development of critical thinking has changed that dramatically. I find myself accomplishing everything in little amounts of time. It not only is meaningful, it is also beneficial. I cannot be as successful as I am today if I did not have the ability to think critically. Critical thinking has made me calm in scenarios which can tend to be very stressful, like easing tension between friends. It has helped me to solve disputes and arguments that my peers have had that could have lead to a separation in friendships. The skill of critical thinking that I have developed and mastered has shaped me in becoming the person that I am today, a student who works hard and can be calm under
Prompt #2 To me, creativity is the expression of one’s beliefs and interests. It is one’s imagination that is expressed through themselves and their personality. I believe creativity ties in with innovation, individuality, and inventiveness. I not only believe that creativity is important, I believe that it is a necessity. It is the key to expression and individuality and without it, our personalities will be dull and lifeless. Creativity helps me in and out of my classroom as it helps me develop social skills and friendships through collaborative work and shared interests. I have gained many friendships from sharing the same interests and similar expressions of creativity. With my new friendships, I have developed …show more content…
The multiple skills that I have developed and mastered helped shape me to become the person that I am today, a hardworking and devoted student. A skill that I have mastered greatly is the ability to take care of situations in a short amount of time; in other words, critical thinking. This skill has helped me out greatly when I was pushed to solve issues or aid to problems in a way that is quick yet efficient. Examples of when critical thinking had helped me are taking exams, answering questions asked by teachers and solving problems, from math to the real world. Critical thinking is meaningful to me as it was hard to accomplish and perfect. Before high school, I was not one who could get things done quickly; I always took my time in getting things done, which did not help whatsoever in many different scenarios. My development of critical thinking has changed that dramatically. I find myself accomplishing everything in little amounts of time. It not only is meaningful, it is also beneficial. I cannot be as successful as I am today if I did not have the ability to think critically. Critical thinking has made me calm in scenarios which can tend to be very stressful, like easing tension between friends. It has helped me to solve disputes and arguments that my peers have had that could have lead to a separation in friendships. The skill of critical thinking that I have developed and mastered has shaped me in becoming the person that I am today, a student who works hard and can be calm under