Goals are what keep people’s lives going on. Goals, ambitions, and dreams bring the motivation one needs in order to complete day to day tasks and challenges. During my FYE semester, I’ve understood how my strengths and weaknesses present an important factor in how well I am able to achieve my educational, individual, and professional goals. To an effective extent, Wilmington University offers numerous programs, tools, and people for students like me to take advantage of. It has given me a chance to seek further in the careers and major I can attain a degree. A person’s strengths and weaknesses determine what he or she can easily accomplish vs. what he or she needs to work on. Programs like LASSI and Connect has illustrated my struggles with …show more content…
WilmU’s department heads such as the career services, academic services, etc. gave us detailed presentations and helpful insight views about our futures. I most definitely benefitted from the career service speaker who helped me show a place where I can start. I went on a field trip to see if I would like the field I was striving for. Thankfully, I did. Programs like FOCUS showed me careers that would fit my personality. All of them were more or less leadership positions because I love to dictate over people and myself so I can push everyone to work as hard and as best as they possibly can. LASSI helped me realize that I also have to work on my anxiety levels. Sometimes, I run too far ahead in my thoughts, and by the time I return to the reality, it worries me. There has to be a certain level of calm and relaxed. In case, I’m ever uncertain or feeling lost, I can always seek from resources available. Academically, the Student Success Center helps students in classes they are struggling in. Peer to peer mentoring is often helpful. For those who want to have their papers checked and reviewed, they can go online and submit it on SmartThinking. The academic resource is highly beneficial to those who are weak at writing. The tool SafeAssign is resourceful because it allows students and staff to maintain as well as check originality and credibility in assignments. Wilmington University is abundant in resources if the students only decide to take advantage of