Personal Experience Essay

It is good to have an end to journey toward, and in the end the experiences within the journey itself are equally as important, as such ventures can induce some form of self-transformation. Journeys, Year 11 students, are amongst the very few things in life that is completely unavoidable. Every single person in this room has embarked on a journey, whether it be a journey to senior schooling, or even a journey to self-discovery; everyone has at least once experienced the impacts journeys may…

ordinary everyday life and very familiar for me but I have never thought differently. Author Kathleen Stewart is trying to use different vignettes to show how we can think deeply of ordinary everyday life and shift our practical knowledges of intimate experiences. Stewart thinks that ordinary affects can affect the everyday life and gives it the quality of a continual motion of relations, scenes, contingencies and emergences. Many people repeat their everyday life, repeat it again and again,…

Salvation Army by Abdellah Taïa, love can never seem to escape the fate of betrayal. As Taïa takes readers through different periods of his life, he shows them how often love experiences hardships. Hardships that sometimes work out, but usually end in chaos. Through secondary character stories, as well as his own personal experiences, Taïa demonstrates an overreaching theme that even the strongest love between two people can lead to devastating betrayal. In the beginning of the novel, Taïa…

While learning allows us to gain knowledge on a subject, learning from our mistakes inspires us to make our own understanding and truths about the world around us and in our personal lives. Experience is the key that opens the door to wisdom. In “Solitude and Leadership,” Deresiewicz questions our system of education that trains students to not be able to think for themselves. Similarly, Hesse uses Siddhartha’s journey to enlightenment to illuminate the idea that certain revelations cannot be…

For my experiential learning experiences I had the pleasure of visiting both the Ahtanum Ridge Clinic and the Yakima Valley Regional Hospital medical records. Before visiting these facilities I constructed questions beforehand to ensure I would not only have a valuable experience, but be able to compare facilities as well. These questions were; 1. What is something about the system you deal with that you know but not many other people you come in contact with know? 2. How has the change between…

and in consequence, there are innumerable ways of receiving it. From day one of our lives, we are obtaining knowledge from our own experiences and the experiences of those close to us. Knowledge is obtained not only from the facts in a textbook but from the senses we are born with. It is not simply one or the other but is a jumbled up stew of education and experiences that creates the knowledge one knows today. And when we explore the assertion “Without knowledge of the past, we would have no…

three Life Surveys with the clients in the shelter this past week. This past week, particularly Tuesday, October 5th, I was given the chance to experience what the prevention team does for the Crisis Center. Currently, there are two prevention specialists at the agency, Darius and Renee. The agency is in the process of hiring another…

This variety of experiences creates numerous memories that can be shared amongst friends and family. Each of these memories that are shared have the potential to be inspiring to someone else, or can even bring the lessons that were learned to resurface, showing the reason for coming of age. When memories are created, you are then able to share experiences with others, which can also help you see what you have learned. Memories are an important factor when relating to coming of age. It can be…

Wisdom What is wisdom? There is not a universal definition of this term since it comes down to personal perception. It may be possible to recognize the word wisdom in a short definition but would not make it justice to the vast meaning of wisdom. Wisdom in my brief opinion means seeing things as they are, to see things in a profound way, and understand the situations that life bestows upon you. Therefore, know when to act and when not to. Be able to modify life situations in everyday life.…

My three engagement activities of service, leadership and internship complemented each other very well, because all three of my experiences taught me what it meant to be a well-rounded leader. Throughout my entire engagement within the program it was very surprising to see many connections overlap within each activity. The first one I realized that I had practiced with all three activities was social engagement, me practicing social engagement was included in all three of my activities by me…