Between Four Weeks

These four weeks have been a new challenge and brought with it numerous important decisions. Taking READ class was one of the decisions I was most afraid of, but now I see it as a new worthwhile challenge. Mathematics is a class that requires a lot of patience and dedication, but my fear was not the same as my fear in READ. However, at the beginning of the semester I was determined to do my best in READ, even if I did not know how. Besides, school was always excellent motivation for me, no matter what happens around me. To paraphrase, my teacher says. "That in order to become good at something we have to practice."  For instance, that practice will be part of a new learning process rather than just passing the classes.

 

The adaptation was not easy especially for work, I got to have 40 hours of work which frustrated me. I fought for several weeks to reach a more flexible work schedule. Studying makes me feel enthusiastic but I reached a time when my grades went down, I realized it was time I tried new strategies. I know that a very good way to be sure in classes is striving for a 100. But how to achieve this if you do not understand the classes? I understood studying means sacrificing comfort and those changes are a positive reflection academically. Having new methods of study and solving problems helps me work towards goals in a better way.

 

I know that with the help of God the most difficult challenges can be achieved. And God gives special people to help like my parents because even though they cannot offer much financial help they can do what is in their hands. And it is something for which I am grateful.

 

In addition, my social life is increasingly closed as the weeks go by. It is the fourth week of classes and the semester gets even busier, I fill all my free time studying or asking for help, this leads me to have more relationships with my classmates, these professional relations help in my academic environment.

Contrary to all this I attend less to church, that leads me to listen to online sermons. Sealing for new solutions and to identify my problems. New challenges lead us to implement new strategies.

Readings becomes less difficult and much easier to understand. The effort is always worth it. I want in the next few weeks to implement the following: although much adapt my work schedule in less hours, make time to study in campus facilities, writing more to improve my writing and seek help whenever I need. Math and Read classes are a challenge for me have become a challenge that excites me to see my efforts reflected in the next months as I have well as achieved in these past four weeks. Having new methods of study and solving problems helps me work towards goals in a better way.

AVIATION

Flying is important to me because it is something that I cannot supposedly do. Someone told me. “You have to stop thinking about great things because the only time you will fly a plane will be in your dreams." At the moment I knew that they were wrong, this dreams started to be real to me.

When I was a girl, it was wonderful to imagine that I was flying, spinning and that the wind hit my face. The interesting thing of knowing new places and to take others to fly with me, although flying is not a game. “The Aviator is a person who controls an aircraft operating it is steering controls this person knows where it is going and how to control the plane in a difficult situation."

I grew up in the best family. It was not a rich and power family, and definitely not the perfect one, but I was happy to be part of them, looking what they did to flourish. The best house of the streets in San Salvador does not mean I am rich or to studying in a private school does not mean intelligent, in a private school is to be intelligent, and trying to aid the problems only leads to getting caught in the hatred. That recovers in the streets of San Salvador is to be a strong one. To follow God is to be a winner and survive. It is not easy ignoring these facts, and is probably the reason I am fixated on flying.

Currently God helps my family escape away from all of this. Dance it was also an good escape  teenage years as I thought that dancing was another way to show my success, but over time I was never more the best dancer in school, the others just had too much experience. This help me see more than just my own needs, as I had taught others to be better than me. Even though my dance teacher was hard that made me cry a lot but it was just a preparation of what I would become, many small parts of life taught me to be strong, humble and caring.

Flying was a dream that I kept every day, I talked about it, I drew, I watched everything on television that had to do with airplanes. My cousins and friends knew as much as I did, and influenced them to study aeronautic, but the opposite It was that dream was mine, they had to change their career while I never got to study aviation, Despite others telling me to, I will not stop dancing So, the dream of being a pilot is what encourages me every day, even if I do not study now I will do it when I have the possibilities, even if I have another career.

I will not stop being a pilot in my life piloting because I build my dreams is what I could tell the one who recommended me to stop dreaming.

Cultivate intelligence for integral growth

Cultivate intelligence for integral growth, develop skills for knowledge, which allows solving problems in different areas, by applying different methods as part of everyday life, David Brooks said: "Crystallized intelligence is the ability to use experience, knowledge and the products of lifelong education that have been stored in long-term memory. It is the ability to make analogies and comparisons about things you have studied before. Crystallized intelligence accumulates over the years and leads ultimately to understanding and wisdom."

David Brooks focuses on crystallized intelligence as offline reading in a deep and exasperating way to learn intentionally, not a simple resolution of the text.

But at the same time, the fluid intelligence can referred to a comfortable experience, the online life that most of the students enjoy, including myself, for the promptly use.

In contrast, fluid intelligence can refer to a very comfortable experience, such as online life enjoyed by most students, for the convenience of solving our doubts quickly, also the parallel world of social networks; All these previous ones make us a carefree way of research and very light development to learn, as David brooks said, "Fluid intelligence is a set of skills that exist in the moment. It’s the ability to perceive situations and navigate to solutions in novel situations, independent of long experience. "

Accordingly, Sandra McGuire made a difference between studying and learning, likewise gives us an incredible and effective method called "Blooms Taxonomy"  to develop learning skills, Sandra McGuire take the case of first year dentistry students who describe the difference: "Studying is focusing on the 'what’s,' but learning is focusing on the 'how’s,' 'whys,' and 'what ‘if’s ... even if i forgot the ‘What’s’ i can re-create them.”

Explain, apply, are one of the steps for the Blooms Taxonomy that lead us to intensify our way of thinking and to develop our intelligence, possibly from fluid to crystallized, Sandra McGuire and David Brooks have common points about how to learn and how to do it, have a successful outcome unlike comfort, speed, fun and ease. Sandra McGuire said: "Previewing and reviewing are powerful and efficient ways to support learning.”

The human being will never stop learning until the day of death, tools such as effort and dedication facilitate the way.