Happiness Reflection and Summer!

The article on the 10 Ways Happy People Choose Happiness was very interesting to me. I was able to relate to all the topics it covered and I believe it is 100% true. Just reading that article made me smile and brightened up my day. I want to focus on just trying to be more positive whenever I can. When I look back, I can see opportunities that I should have dealt with a more positive attitude. It’s going to be a challenge because I usually have trouble expressing myself to others. But I know that the more I do, the better it will be for me. 

There are many things that make me happy. I love it when I can help other people with anything that they need. It gives me a sense of accomplishment. I am also very happy whenever I succeed in something or reach my goal. It shows that I have grown and that I am slowly improving myself to be the best I can become. 

When I went back to my dorm on Friday and read the stuff people left me in the booklet we made, it made me really happy. Everyone said such kind things about me and gave me a lot of good advice. It felt good to know that there people that appreciate you. I think that the activity in general was very beneficial. It was interesting to see what people wrote on their respective covers to describe themselves. I found it actually a lot more difficult to give characteristics to myself than I thought it would. But overall, I think it helped us come together as a STARS LEAD family, and bond a bit more as a group. 

As for the E-Portfolio, I actually haven’t done anything with mine as of yet. I think that it is a great tool to help us organize ourselves and to show potential employers everything that we have to offer. However, I don’t think that I have enough quality material to put anything of value into my Portfolio. I will start building one soon and hopefully I will be able to add to it over time. As for the Capstone project, I had some ideas on what we could do. We could film the high school students that are coming to Loyola in the next couple of weeks and somehow integrate them into whatever the theme of our video will be. We haven’t filmed anything yet, but I think that we have some good ideas.

Spring Break was a lot of fun! I didn’t go anywhere special this year, however. I spent a day on my Uncle’s farm in Wisconsin which was great and got to meet a lot of my friends in high school and other colleges. I slept a lot and made sure to get a good amount of homework done because I knew the week I came back would be a struggle with all the papers and tests that are due. I can’t wait until this semester is done and for summer can be here. I don’t have that big plans, but my family wants to go on a trip somewhere (not finalized). I want to able to go swimming and play football, and just not have to worry about classwork and college. It’s only a couple months away!!