I relate to this a lot because I have a tendency to tell people what they want to hear when it comes to my potential major or future career. I think a large part of this comes from when I first started looking at colleges during junior year. I was dead set on being an Education major, but my parents and everyone else told me that it was a doomed career that I should avoid at all costs.

This is a really good reminder that no matter what major you go into, you can do any job. It doesn't matter if it relates to your major or not, which is kind of reassuring because it means your major doesn't set your future.

In elementary and middle school, I was the only disabled student in my school so I never really had anyone who understood to talk to about disability related things. When I reached high school, I started playing wheelchair basketball and found a community of other disabled people. Even though we all had different disabilities, it was amazing to see how we were able to connect on a different level. And for me, it allowed me to understand that I wasn't alone.

This is some of the best life advice I have ever heard. Being undeclared means people are always giving me their opinions on what I should do and it can get sorta overwhelming. But remembering that it's my life and my story makes it easier to follow the path I want to go down.

So this is something that I find myself relating to very often at this point in my life. Almost every conversation I have with people, my undeclared major and undecided future make an appearance, which tends to stress me out.

This is something that is extremely important, but also really hard to think about when you are going through the process of growth. It's not immediate, it's a gradual change and eventually you'll be able to look back and see how far you've come.

I relate to this extremely well as this is usually how I go about solving problems and doing things in general. There are many people who have believed that I am also unapproachable and inflexible. It's something that I am actively working on.

My family is full of educators, both of my parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents worked in the field of education. Although everyone worked in the same field, there were still a lot of differing opinions about the inner workings of today's education system.

I know that there are a lot of stories out there about people who switch majors a ton of times before finding one that's right for them, but they are still comforting to me because I'm undeclared and a little nervous to pick a major because I don't want to choose wrong.

I know that the inspiration for his original major didn't work out and he changed it later but I wish I had something knew what I wanted to do as quickly and easily as that. I am still undeclared and very little direction on where I'm heading in life.

It can sometimes be difficult to relate skills used for two completely different experiences but there is always an overlap for those soft skills.

For me, it is difficult to find artifacts from classes because I feel like a lot of my growth happens outside of the classroom. So using assignments and projects doesn't feel as personal as using pictures and videos from my daily life.

This is an important piece of information that quite a few classes seem to miss out on. The facts are irrelevant but how you use and connect them to others isn't. It's the reason why multiple choice tests aren't as beneficial as short answers.

This seems like a great strategy to avoid ideological thinking but in today's world it's a lot harder than it seems due to new AI that only shows you what it thinks will interest you, which is usually something you already believe.

This is a very important piece of information for all to learn. It is something that I did not learn until later in high school but helped me a lot during my first year of college when it came to meeting new people and being open to new experiences.

A lot of my previous librarians and teachers from high school told us that we should never use google when searching for information. So it's a little weird to be told it's okay, so long as we evaluate the sources.

I really like that the way this is explained as a "yes, and" vs a "yes, but". It is a great way to explain something that can seem complicated when working with a team.

It's an interesting thought that these ePortfolios aren't for us. I've always know that the ePortfolio was to showcase ourselves to other people but I never really thought of others taking meaning or value from it.

I have many notebooks with similar sentiments but I never really thought of it as journaling because it didn't always make sense or connect using full sentences. It's nice to know that other people have the same thought process and I'm just doing things in a way that works for me.

I very much relate to this sentiment as it sometimes feels as though I am only the things I participate in. I've always been known as a basketball player, a tennis player, a dancer, and a student council member. But coming to college and losing some of those activities has really made me look at myself as more than just the activities I partake in.

This chapter really pushes the idea that even smallest things can have the biggest impact on us. And every single one of those small things, no matter how inconsequential they may seem, is part of what makes us who we are.

Many of the classes I have been in throughout high school and even a majority of those from Freshman year of college have only looked at reflection one way. I always felt odd because their way didn't work well for me, so it's exciting to see that there are other ways that may be better for me!