Significant Life Experience Essay

We’ve all had experiences that greatly impact our lives. Some have more impact than others, some in good ways and others in bad ways. Regardless of the emotions we assign the experiences, they help shape who we are. The unique views, opinions, habits, character traits, and perceptions we have are molded out of these numerous experiences. I have had so many experiences that have changed the way I view the world, the people in it, and myself. One of these such experiences happened to me when I was…

Overcoming adversity always starts off by knowing that you can achieve anything you put your mind to. Through your whole life, overcoming adversity has many struggles but you can either wait out the obstacle or avoid the problem by finding an alternate solution. People overcome adversity by learning to accept their differences, believing in their self, and having a positive attitude. During, the story “A Work In Progress” not only did Aimee Mullins accept her disability, she never gave up.…

Orion was opening up the door to a new challenge that I have never experienced before. I have never gone hiking, let alone backpacking, nevertheless I gave the experience my all and what I got back from it was exponential. When faxing those final forms for this trip, I did not realize the amount of teamwork that would go into this experience. The moment that my name was called to the group of Austin and Brooke, before I knew everyone’s name and before we became 90’s Grunge, I understood that…

The obstacles that I have had to overcome within my life has made me a stronger person and shaped the way i feel about life. Firstly, I came from a low income family. This has shown me all the ways a person could fail, but it has also shown me how to avoid these downfalls and be a better person. A lack of high education in my family drives me to go and finish college and then maybe even go to graduate school. Another obstacle that I have had to overcome is the rigorous classes that I have taken…

Experiences early in life enrich one’s wisdom. Wisdom is defined as the soundness of an action or decision based upon an experience. Jerry, the 11 year old protagonist from “Through the Tunnel” by Doris Lessing, gained wisdom when he completed his journey of going through the tunnel. He gained wisdom by realizing that he should not have been concerned about the thoughts or actions of others, by realizing that patience is needed to complete a task, and by realizing that some things in life are…

For a large number of people, their experience with lab reports and scientific documents will be limited to a lab or two they are required to take in college for a general education credit. Skills learned in these classes will most likely be quickly forgotten and never used again. However, for those that work in a scientific field, writing lab reports is a fundamental skill that will be used time and time again. Lab reports can be used to express many different types of data and prove a variety…

learning experience to understand that as a nurse it is difficult to prepare for a day because it is a career of unexpected events. I was extremely nervous for the unknown situation and outcome that I was going to be faced with. The simulation started the moment I was doing research for the case study and evaluating key points that could lead me to the patient’s illness. I made a plan with my partner and felt the necessity to follow up despite of the situation. The closest real life experience…

of learning were already developed before taking this class. Growing up in the environment that I did I realize that there some things you learn you learn from the world around you, and that a book can 't really teach you and give you the real life experience from reading. This course taught me that, I was right about the world being…

eight hours playing them. His mom was worried and resolved to have him put into a camp for kids with this addiction. It was neat to realize the reality of an addiction that media can be through a real life experience. It is hard to put down an experiment and say it’s not true because it was a live experience. Thus causing me not want anything close to an addiction like that or to even touch video…

of their t-shirts into their shorts. I don’t know why everyone else does it but I started and it is almost a habit now. The people with more influence on me or my “significant others” are easier for me to talk about and I am proud of them and like to brag to people about them. Both of my parents would most definitely be in my “significant other” group. My father is a social worker who has helped many people to take steps to repair their lives. He is the only person I know who truly does not…