Job interviews can be very nerve racking but there are some tips and tricks you can do to help you prepare. On Alison Doyle’s blog she gives some tips. She mentions things like research the company before, plan what you're going to wear, practice techniques and what you're going to say and much more. In school we got assigned to have a practice interview with our teacher as if we were applying for a job. Even though our interview was over Zoom, I was still so nervous. Our teacher then told us to review the video and take notes about what we could do better on if this was an actual job interview. As I looked over the video I could already tell that I was very nervous just how my body position was, I was very closed off and didn’t have the best posture. Another big thing was I don’t think I was making good eye contact and I said well and yeah a lot. I do think I answered all the questions fully and the best that I could have. I was very happy that I got to do a practice interview with my teacher because a week later I had an actual interview for a potential internship place. Luckily the interview was a phone call interview and not a Zoom meeting. I knew I wanted to give 110% to the interview, here’s some things I did that really helped me. The first thing I did was I got ready like I was going to the interview in person, I did my hair and makeup and got dressed very nicely. The second thing I did was rehearse some common questions and answers that would normally be in an interview. For example, tell me a little about yourself. The last thing I did to prepare is to try to remain calm and act like it is going to be a normal conversation. These easy tips really helped me not to overly stress in an interview.
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Ever since I have started this blog it has given me exposure to a lot of topics that I didn’t know much about. But the one thing I know a lot about and as do many teenagers is social media. I am in high school and now starting to figure out what colleges I want to go to and deciding big life decisions. This blog post is mainly focused on what social media does for your reputation. Personally I never thought about the things I posted about would really matter and how it would define me. As I look into colleges I notice that colleges will do a lot of research on the people who apply to their school. I never really understood why they would care about what each person posts, but it is for the schools reputation, the school does not want to have students who post inappropriate things online or who could be bad influences on others. That got me to thinking what are things that are on the internet about me and would I be okay with colleges seeing that. As I was researching more about this topic, I came across Staff Writer website where they talk about how social media impacts your life. They say “The line between our digital and real lives has blurred,” I agree so much with that statement. Nothing is private anymore, for example if something violent happens everyone is pulling out their phones to record and post it online for everyone to see. Not only is that inappropriate to have your phone out but it also takes away any privacy that person had who was affected in the incident. This is just one example of how others don’t think that what they are posting on social media will affect others. This has got me to be more conscious about what I am posting on my social media accounts. In school we were assigned to try to find any information about us even if it's old photos. When I did this I couldn't find any pictures or information about me, but that doesn’t mean nothing is out there.
The big talk in the world right now is the Covid-19 virus. In the past month I personally have had a lot of things canceled or postponed. One of the major things has been having online school. It hasn’t been too bad, but this is only the first week and everyone is still adjusting to it. I am a visual learner and when school is just teachers checking up on you every other day is very stressful. Even though teachers are sending videos of themselves teaching the lesson it is for sure not the same as in class with the school environment. Another struggle I have had is not being disciplined on having a good night's sleep. Since classes start at 9am and only go till 12:10pm I know I can get away with staying up later than I should and I can wake up later for school. Still on the subject of not being disciplined is not eating healthy. Since I do not have a scheduled time to eat lunch, I have either been snacking a lot in between classes or not eating at all during the day. Now that I am not in school, I have realized that our school lunches are not as bad as people make them sound. The school provides us with what we need and has multiple options for lunch for us. Being put in a situation where school can't be one of our resources makes me realize how much I rely on the school for simple tasks like lunch. The biggest struggle I have faced is not being able to see my friends. I am already a very social person so the fact that I can’t hang out with my friends for 2 months is very hard and emotional. I read an article called Good Friends Are Good for You By Tom Valeo. The article is about the benefits that friends will bring in your life. What stuck out to me most in the article was Tom Valeo says that when you're around your friends they will help you mental even if they don’t know it. This applies to me a lot because when school was still in session I would go up to my locker and I would always see my best friends up there waiting to talk to me. It felt good to know after a long hard and stressful class period I could just vent to my friends and take my mind off of whatever was stressing me out.
First I would like to start off with what this website is. This website is for school. I am a high school student who is learning how to become a better writer. Most people who know me knows that I am adopted, but people might not know that I do personally struggle in school. For this post I want to focus on the top things that is included in early childhood development for biological kids vs. top things that kids in an orphanage kids were raised by and how it affects in development. Starting off according to Jennifer S. Jones a lot of kids who grow up in orphanages are very malnourished. They aren't getting the correct vitamins or shots that they were supposed to get when they were newborns. Another thing that I personally don't understand is how much feeling secure babies need. As I was doing my research that's the number one thing that always came up was babies need attention, loving people and security. Just like I saw in the video “There is no wage gap” by Christina Hoff, even though men are supposedly the ones who make better money and have better jobs, women can get those jobs also. Just like it does not matter if you are a girl or a boy in an orphanage you are lacking the same emotional connection that everyone else is. With not having connection with their biological parents it causes severe trauma for that kid if they grow up in the orphanage or later in life when they find out what their past was. Now rom personal experience sometimes I feel like I have to act a certain way since I was raised in the culture my parents were raised in. it hard sometimes when kids talk about their mom and how she felt when she was pregnant with them. I connect to the story “Being a Man” by Theroux Paul. in the story he talks about all the stereotypes people have to define what a man is. Of course I am not man I connect with the stereotypes and how everyone expects me to be just like them when in reality I am not like them, I come from a very hard past that i am still not 100% stable on. On the other hand, kids who grow up with their biological parents have a different story. These things are what parents do with their kids when they are newborns, but if not here a things that are most effective in a child's development. Be sensitive to her needs which means spending time with your baby and letting your baby feeling secure when he/she is with you. The second one is Soothe him when he's distressed. When a child is less than a year old, they can’t do a lot with assistance. This includes talking and telling someone what they are in need for. So when a kid cries it is to show people that he/she is unhappy and is need of help. Comforting them when they express this emotion is another way of security and them knowing that you are there to help them. The next one is temperament, each kid has a different way of showing people if they are happy or sad or even angry. For example, some babies are very friendly with people passing them between others, but others only would like their mother or father let them hold them. People need to understand that not every child has the same attitude about things. Just like in the story “About men” by Gretel Ehrlich, people think that cowboys are mean aggressive and tough when really they are just boys who are trying to run their farms or do their jobs. My next point which is face to face contact or interaction with your child. When the child is the mother's womb the baby develops hearing early in the mother's pregnancy. Doctors recommend talking to your baby so they can get used to hearing your voice. Same thing goes with face to face, examples such as kisses and smiling and laughing at the baby will help them to get more use to you. Now the final thing is to know when your baby has had enough. Yes it can be fun to hold your baby all the time and just have them look at you and other immediate family. But babies need to have other things to do besides people time, they need to develop other senses including touch. So giving them something to hold and occupy their brains with something new is very good. Now I’m sure that all those facts were very self explanatory and that is a natural thing that happens with kids but did you know that kids who grew up or were in orphanages for a period of time and didn’t have those interactions it can affect their daily lives as they grow up.
The definition of New Year's resolutions in my family is to set goals for the upcoming year. In the last few years my family has thought of eating healthier, working out more and being more positive. These are few examples of what others in the world might think for goals. For me personally I always think of New Year's resolutions as a joke. Some people will be very consistent for a week and then start slacking off. With that being said I have never taken New Years goals seriously. The phrase New Year’s resolution has a heavy weight to it. It sounds like you need to make your goal have the standards for the New Year. To me I don’t understand why people focus so much on finding a goal. Why can’t people just focus on making the year different from the previous one? Why can’t people make the year the way you want it to be without all the extra requirements? Don’t focus on the expectations that you made for this year. After I have shared my opinion, I wanted to do more research on this topic. What I found out may spark the same questions I had after reading this reasoning. I knew from the moment I started researching there was going to be pros and cons. I especially wanted to focus on the cons to see if I would be influenced by any of the points. I started reading the points and nothing stood out to me except for the last point on the article written by Daniel Wallen. This point asks a very important question, which basically say you know what you want your goal to be. But why do you want your goal to be that and What motivated you to have that as a goal? This got me thinking of so many reasons of why people fail at their resolution. The main one is lack of motivation and not feeling confident in yourself if you could achieve it or not. Even though we are in the new year, I want that question to be in the back of people's minds for other goals in the future. For me in particular, I am starting to think about college and what I want to study. I am hoping since I have read that article and have done a lot of thinking on what a goal means, I can calmly make goals for myself, but not be to upset if it takes me a while to reach it.
My high school is a Christian high school. Every year we have a day called service day. Our teachers encourage us to be servants. What that means for us is to be great leaders and encouraging others in whatever we are doing that day. Not only do they want us to give back to our community but they want us to be prepared to share the message of Christ if people asks us why are we doing this. The way we figure out where to go, our group decides as a group so everyone gets a say. We stay at the place we pick for about three to four hours. Then groups will usually go out to eat and have team bonding by going back to school and playing games. My group picked a local grade school. My group decided we wanted not only hang out with little kids but also keep the grade schoolers spirits up since a lot of them wanted to rush through grade school and go straight to high school. What my group mainly did at the grade school was help teachers grade papers and read with the kids who needed help and also a little cleaning here and there. For me personally this was my second year in a row to go back to this grade school. It was great to see old faces and just be a helping hand to those kids who struggled with school. After we left the school, the group went out to a restaurant and talked about the most random things ever. Everyone looked like they were having a good time. What was also nice to see was people were talking to others they normally don’t talk to. When it was time for the group to play a game at the school it was of course Apples to Apples. That game really brought us together for two reasons one it got everyone out of their comfort zone and two we now had a bunch of inside jokes we could laugh about. Overall it was a great experience and I am so glad I could get to know the people in my group a little better.
Success in my life is not all about hardworking and spiritual. It has a lot to do with it but personally it wasn’t how I found success. Qualities are a big part of leadership. It shows how people act under pressure and it also shows what others around you see. The book Outliers quotes “We overlook just how large a role we play and by ‘we’ I mean society in determining who makes and who doesn’t”(Gladwell pg 33). Personally I was never truly accepted in society. I was an outcast. By realizing I didn’t have to impress anyone I could truly be the person I was meant to be. Shortly after I accepted myself I noticed from others around me how many noticed my behavior in school and how I acted with my friends out in public. This quote truly shows how people try to be someone they are not just to try to be accepted into society. Though there are a lot of different opinions that people have to achieve success, none of them are the “correct way.” If someone doesn’t agree with the way you’re acting to achieve one of your goals then take this advice from the author, Dale Carnegie. “ There’s only one way to get the best out of an argument and that is to avoid it“ (144). Someone has something to say about your success are they setting themselves up for success by being people down? This will improve your positive mindset. These books have taught me a lot about myself and have told me about how healthy I should keep my mind and how important it is to have a positive outlook on things. It has also taught me on how I should treat others and how big of an impact I can make on a person, even if I don’t know them.
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