My most held value that has changed as I age is my view on being independent. While I would solely rely on myself when I was younger, I learned to build communities as I aged. The original source was due to my personally and environment. I am an introvert, so being sociable comes harder to me than others. Until I entered high school, I never had a class size above twenty. My entire middle school had around fifty students! This environment and my introvertness made it easy to want to do everything myself without working with or accepting help from others. Group projects certainly reinforced this idea repeatedly. While I am certainly still independant, being a successful college student requires a good degree of this, I am now much more willing to a group participant than when I was younger.
I would say Boy Scouts was the first step to this change. One of my most vivid Scouting memories is being inducted into the Order of the Arrow, Scouting’s Honor Society. It is a
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One of my classes my first at NC State demonstrated this. In COS 100 there is a semester long group project. Having partners who care about their education was a welcome change of pace from previous experience and made the experience enjoyable. I experienced a similar situation in CH 101. Additionally, COS 100 makes the case that working together and communicating is the best way to advance the sciences. Being a passionate fan of science, I now support more collaborative efforts. I am also doing undergraduate research with the Statistics department here at NCSU. This more than anything else shows me how powerful a group working together can still be after first seeing it during my Order of the Arrow Ordeal many years ago. I have definitely gained a healthy respect for the power of group effort. I don’t consider much lost except that of a very polarizing, standoffish