Bio Case

Reflection:

In this paper I will attempt to describe my mind set six years ago. This is the past and I have been reflecting on my entire experience of becoming educated this whole week and trying to gather my feelings and thoughts in order to place them in this paper. I had a different way of thinking back then. My marriage of twenty years was the safe haven it always has been. My children where practically grownups, my husband content in his own career work but I was becoming board with my life and wanted a change.

I decided to pursue a degree since I had dropped out of college twenty years before to get married to my childhood sweetheart. Back then in the 1980's a child who lost a parent could go to college and my education was pretty much free. The truth is that youth is wasted on the young so; I now wanted to finish the college education that I started back then since I had no babies to attend too and a husband who was busy in the work force. This could have been the classic case of empty nest syndrome or it was just me wanting to do something for myself. Personal growth and development was a major role for me so, I was not identified as a wife and mother only.

The role of learning made my personal growth and development a valuable tool for me to identify my own self-worth. I did not like where my life was at that point in time because it was a stagnant existence. If a change was to happen for me I needed to embrace my education even though it made me afraid that I may be bad at it and fail.

My level of competence at the time was null and void. I had the basics of a New York State Regency High School Diploma, life educated in hard knocks, and the process of trial and error. At that time in life the experiences where very limited although my problem solving skills may have been stronger than the ability to understand what information retrieval was, how to use collaboration to my advantage, nor was the ability to communicate in writing developed well enough to write formal letters to my kids school. With limited skills but, the desire to grow in another direction the UOP helped me in the decision of continued education because it was online. At the time I had been working on the same job that I work now. I am a school bus driver for a large county in Maryland. The work is nice because you drive beautiful country sides at times and you get to work with children. The problem is that it is a dead end job. Personal growth causes you to want more; it causes a person to want to improve their level of awareness, develop skills to rise above the circumstance that you're living.

Evaluation:

In my experience at the University of Phoenix there is an awakening of new ideas. I changed my line of study three times due to all the excitement of learning new things each time. With each new course I learned something new and exciting that was used and compared in my everyday life. In the very beginning of my learning the course that started me off was the COM/120 and all that followed. It enlightened me about setting goals, I learned that goals are as concrete as passing a midterm and as abstract as working at controlling your temper.

I had been exposed and introduced to information systems and technologies. I understand that globalization is the communication with the world via the internet. I did not get what the internet really was until my time in school. The world opened up in forums of markets, pricing and mergers of products and services. New things that I learned included trade and services, I learned computers are used to retrieve, store, and manipulate information.

There are other core courses taken during my program of study that impacted me the most was ADJ/265