Reflecting on this competency is somewhat challenging because, based on what I do on campus, I don’t often find myself in contact with quantitative or qualitative data, especially outside of a class assignment setting where I would need to manipulate and convey it to a large audience of people. The best examples I can come …
Out of all the competencies, I think socio-cultural awareness is probably the “easiest” to develop in college. Now, I put easy in quotation marks because it is not easy to actually develop this skill–in fact, this skill, more that others, requires you to put yourself in uncomfortable and unfamiliar situations in order to develop it. …
Communication is a very important competency to me, and I think I exercise it quite well, both in academic and professional settings as well as in my personal life. I think the area I probably struggle with most in my written communication. Though I would consider myself a decent writer, it typically takes me much …
I have developed my collaboration skills this semester by working with others in each of my classes. For example, in Physics, every Friday we have problem-based learning sessions where we work in small groups to solve complex problems. My weekly group members, Meera and Jane, and I ended up really bonding and working very well …
Creativity is definitely one competency that I tend to struggle with. I consider myself to be more of a STEM-brained than humanities-inclined person, simply because tests/problems sets are less intimidating than essays because they always have a correct answer to find and distinct methods to use. For papers, you have to be creative–you have to …
Simply based off of the fact that I am taking a computer science class this quarter (ASTR 210: Scientific Computing in Astronomy, a new required course for the astro major), I’d say that my digital literacy has probably improved the most this semester in comparison to the other competencies. In that class, I have been …
