Throughout the course of this year the Junior Mentoring Program has helped me to realize my potential goals in school, life and career. My goals for school have been reinforced through this program helping me to look at my potential for graduating Aurora University and potentially achieving a master’s degree. The junior mentoring program has also helped to think ahead in my life and start saving for future expenses, and finally this program has also enlightened me on my career choice seeing that I have fellow classmates attempting to reach the same career goals I have. The Junior Mentoring Program has helped me realize numerous personal and professional goals, all of which appear closer than when I started college.
When I transferred to Aurora University from Waubonsee Community College I hardly knew anyone and when I started the junior mentoring program it has helped me meet new people in some of the classes I’m taking reducing the stress of not knowing anyone and being able to choose members for a group and know that they think the same way I do. Last semester when we had to do the self-report survey assignment I realized what I needed to work on and how to achieve
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This class has also helped me to realize what parts of the police hiring process I will need to work on to improve my chances on becoming an officer; while the mentoring program is mainly to help with the intentions of school it has also helped me to research what else I can do with a criminal justice degree other than law enforcement. On top of helping with my person and professional goals this program massively helped with my academic goals, without it I would not have seen what classes and minors could help me in the criminal justice