Choice Questions
During your first presentation you stated that the projects assigned to you did not challenge you to grow as a student/person. Was there any difference in your second semester?
Artist Statement
In this poem, I focused on the change I felt in myself around the time during the Water You Doing? Project and the Model UN and the change afterwards. The main message of this poem is I realized that the projects were meant to make me feel the way I did to prepare me for next year. Where I would have to be ready for huge projects and a lot of work. I described my stress and sadness as "dark water" and my hopes for a project that would interest me was referred to as a "streak of sunlight". The "cocoon" represents the metaphorical shell I formed during the projects where I would stay quiet and angry and stressed, and that "cocoon' is what helped me grow as a person.
Did your strengths and weaknesses improve or deteriorate since the first semester?
Artist Statement
My poem mentioned how I would take my friends' negative opinions so seriously that it would affect my own opinion of the assignments and I would end up having a negative point of view of them as well. It also mentioned that although this weakness is gone, I got a new challenge, procrastination. I would put off assignments till the last day and this is still happening. I've gained a new strength and that is resilience, I been through enough to be ready for next year. I know it will be harder but if I made it through this year I'll make it through anything.
Did you have an experience where your patience and leadership skills were challenged in group projects, how so?
Artist Statement
This poem is basically a long rant about how my group wasn't able to work to our fullest potential because one of our group members wouldn't cooperate.
The sixth stanza:
"Frustration replaced forgiveness,
Ire left ichnograms in my mind,
And rage seeked retribution."
explains how halfway into the project I gave up hopes that they were going to change and I held a grudge against because they seemed like they didn't care about what the rest of the group had to go through. I felt so disappointed because in first POL I specifically stated how certain people don't do anything and I was hoping that a project so huge like that would prove me wrong but in the end it didn't. It all made me so mad and frustrated that I felt like I shouldn't be around people I could hurt -"I wrapped them in barriers to prevent them, from hurting us and themselves, but also to protect them from myself."- and I've just never been in a situation where I was that angry and impatient. It definitely showed me a few things about myself.