Week 11 First Impression Post

--Original published at marybraun99

Even before college I have dealt with crazy amounts of stress, especially coming into college, it was a whole new experience that I had to go through and I wasn’t sure how I was going to handle it. Before coming to college, I was dealing with a lot of stress that followed me into college, that I am still dealing with. I have never been good at handling stress, because I get overwhelmed very easily, and most of the time can not figure out a healthy solution to coping with the everyday stress.

I am not very good at time management, and getting my assignments done when they should be done, because I am a huge procrastinator and try to finish all of my assignments right before they are do. This leads to massive amounts of stress, that I know would be solved if I was able to better manage my time, not only with work, but with family and friends as well. Even being in high school I was never good at managing my time with my friends, and my family leaving me always feeling bad about not spending enough time with my family.

Currently, I try to take a shower and set out a planner of things that are due every week on the Sunday before the week starts so I know what I have to accomplish for that week, and try to finish everything during Monday or Tuesday so that I am able to spend the rest of my week without worrying too much about all of my work. This is effective, especially for trying to manage my time, because when I get my work done, I can then be with my friends and not have to worry about procrastinating and worrying if my work will get done on time.

I also try to talk to my friends, and take long relaxing showers and do face masks often during the week when I am not doing anything else. I also try to give myself alone time during the week to focus on myself and not stress myself out more than I already was. I think this is also effective, especially after days when I just finish a lot of work, because it gives me something to look forward to, and help me get through the week,

I think something I could do more effectively would be to just manage my time a little bit better and not try to push things off until the last second so that I won’t be stressed out as often. Work is my #1 stress factor in college, so being able to handle my workload easier will benefit me greatly.

First Impression Post Week 11

--Original published at Matt's College Blog

As a Computer Science major, I am required to take Calculus II and Algorithms, both of which are very mathematically dense classes. Given that I’m not particularly quick with math, this causes quite a bit of stress on a regular basis when doing the homework or taking exams for these classes.

My current strategies for managing this stress involve not doing so and attempting to focus on something else until I have no choice but to power through the assignment as best I can. This, obviously, is a terrible strategy and serves only to increase the overall stress level. In the Algorithms class in particular I often find myself putting off homework assignments for an entire week until the night they’re due. The assignments get done but they are far below the level of what I could be producing in terms of quality.

In terms of exams, I’m often stressed in those classes because I know the problems take a significant amount of time to complete and I’m often left worried that I won’t be able to finish within the time limit as a result. I’ve been told in the past by counselors in high school and here at Etown that I may have moderate ADD which certainly doesn’t help with the time limit.

A couple of strategies I could try incorporating would be starting assignments way before they’re due rather than at the last minute, requesting extra time on exams, and probably studying significantly more in preparation of the exams such that my ability to recall information would be increased.

Johari Window Bonus Post

--Original published at Melissa's Blog

I really enjoyed exploring my personality through Johari Window. I usually do not reflect on my own personality, so thinking about how I perceive myself was eye-opening. The six traits I chose for myself were caring, dependable, friendly, happy, loving, and sympathetic. I asked eleven people, a mixture of friends and family, to select the traits they thought best described me. All the six traits I selected for myself were known to my friends and family. The top two traits people chose for me were caring, 63%, and loving, 54%, which I also chose for myself. The next most prominent traits from my list of six were friendly, happy, and sympathetic. In addition, I agree with all the personality traits my friends and family used to describe me. Some of the most commonly chosen traits, that were not on my personal list, were cheerful, warm, intelligent, helpful, and organized. This personality assessment was a positive experience for me because I reflected on myself and learned how the people I am closest with view me. I am pleased that my friends and family’s perspective of me is very similar to my own. Seeing what each person chose for me really brightened my day and made me realize how grateful I am for each of them. For me, the Johari Window was valid and credible because all my traits were known to my friends and family. Overall, I learned that I am surrounded by people who really care about me and I have good self-esteem. I would recommend the Johari Window to anyone who wants to learn more about themselves and how they are viewed by others. https://kevan.org/johari?view=Melissa%20Leggett

Johari Window Bonus Blog Post

--Original published at Madison's Blog

In my Johari Window I created, it asked me to describe myself by choosing 6 words from a list given. At first I was confused because it was hard to just choose six, since I can describe myself in a lot of ways. The list gave some great options to pick from, so narrowing it down was difficult. After I did so, I was impressed with my choices, since I felt they all accurately described me. I chose, adaptable, friendly, helpful, observant, trustworthy and relaxed.

I then emailed the link to my friends from Etown, some friends from home, and also my parents. I thought having a mix of people from different periods of my life would help validate the results. I thought my personality could be described differently by how long the other person has known me for. All the results came back quickly, and they all were very positive and encouraging! I liked how the link brought all the results from each person into one table of personality traits for me.

When I looked back, every word I used to describe myself had been used by someone else to describe me too. So I described myself very well, considering others thought the same thing about me. There were some other words they used to describe me that I would have never chosen for myself, like bold, powerful, and witty. Those seemed outside of the box for me, but that is how others view me, so it cannot be a wrong answer. In the long run, those are’t negative traits to have, so it all was positive feedback.

I think this personality test was valid enough for me to take the results to heart. I liked how the traits offered to choose from were positive, and encouraging. That made it feel more appealing to me and probably made it easier for the others to choose traits, since they knew it would be viewed by me. I think it was valid because it was all electronic too, so I chose my traits and the other people had no contact with me in between choosing theirs. I learned some great things from completing this assignment. I learned that I have a false perception of my personality changing in my transition from high school to college. That is why I asked different people from different periods of my life to all take the test. I figured my personality would have some slight changes, since I was in a new environment and meeting new people. Everyone, my parents, new friends as well as old friends all chose similar if not the same traits to describe me. That showed me that I have always been true to myself even in the transition state. Overall, I liked this exercise and I think it made a statement about how my friends and family view me compared to how I view myself.

https://kevan.org/johari?view=madison+yech

Johari Window Bonus Blog

--Original published at Nadia's Blog

The process of completing the Johari window self-assessment was very interesting to me. I was very curious and intrigued to see what others had to say about me as well as compare the results to what I may have thought about myself. I overall found this way of measuring personality quite accurate because they are real humans who can first hand describe what the person may be like. Although this is true, people may not be 100% honest because they may not want to describe the person rudely or offensive. The personality traits that I had in common with other people’s perception was caring, energetic, friendly and organized. This was quite surprising to me that so many people agreed upon my personality traits. The only trait I had chosen that was not similar was accepting. There were many traits that were chosen that I had not even thought of about myself. This aspect of the assessment was very interesting, because I really enjoyed seeing how others perceive me. The one trait I found most shocking was “brave”. I never considered myself to be brave, and I still question this because I tend to get scared easily and think a million times before actually doing something. Another trait I found interesting was “confident”, I also did not think that I would come across as a confident person because I can tend to be quite shy at times and do not do well in certain social situations. I did get 75% of people saying that I am energetic and this does not surprise me at all, because most of the time I can be very high energy. Overall I think I learned quite a bit about myself through this and did not realize that this is what other individuals may think of me.

https://kevan.org/johari?view=nadiaigatpuriwala

Johari Window Bonus Prompt

--Original published at Max'sPHY105blog

In this psychology class, we were assigned to create Johari Window for ourselves. Johari Windows let people choose five to six traits they feel describe themselves and let that person invite their friends and family members to choose five to six traits they feel describe that person. With the results, the Johari Window shorts the traits in four groups. The group for traits selected by the person and her or her friends is the Arena group. The group for traits not selected by the person but selected by his or her friends is the Blind Spot group. The group for traits selected by the person but not selected by his or her friends if the Facade group. The group for traits not selected by the person or his or her friends is the Unknown group. I was able to get 11 people to choose traits that they feel describe me in my Johari Window at https://kevan.org/johari?view=max%27s+traits. All but one of the traits I chose to describe myself, were chosen by other people as well. I thought I was independent, mature, organized, quiet, trustworthy, and clever. Most people agreed that I was quiet, organized, and trustworthy. Their were also many other traits people selected for me that I did not choose. Of these, the most common were, dependable and intelligent. This came to be no surprise for me, but I was surprised when I found that 5 people said I was logical. When I think about this, I can believe that I am more logical than the average person, but I did not expect that many people to agree. The only trait that I selected for myself that no one else selected was clever. That remains to be the only trait in my Facade group. I thought that I was a clever person, but I guess other people feel that there are better traits to describe me with.

Overall I feel that the Johari Window is a good way to measure personality. It is nice to have the opinions of others when evaluating the personality of a single individual. Traits that are known by both an individual and others are probably true and part of the individual’s self-esteem. Traits that are known only to others are probably true but not part of the individual’s self-esteem. Traits known only to the individual are part of the individual’s self-esteem, but might not always be true. There is a lot to tell about an individual from his opinion of himself or herself and the opinions of other people about that individual. The only limit I see with the Johari Window is that there are a limited amount of traits to choose from. While it allows information from multiple individuals to be combined, the information might not be completely accurate as their might be a trait that was not an option that people would have chosen if it were. This might provide false impression about the individual based on a limited number of traits. Other than this, the Johari Window seems like a good personality elevator.

First Impression Week 11

--Original published at Pisacane Perspectives

There’s a lot of stress that comes with being Music Therapy major, which can come from a lot of different places such as written exams, playing exams, countless assignments, performances, and a number of other things. Because of this, there’s a few different ways in which I manage and relieve stress.

When it comes to assignments, I become easily stressed out and overwhelmed. To deal with this, I keep a color coded planner so I can keep track of everything I need to do during the week. Being able to break it down and keep all the due dates organized makes me feel a lot better about it and makes me feel like I have a better handle on all the things I need to get done. Also, being able to check a lot of things off my “To-Do” list each day relieves some stress, too.

I handle stress from performances and performing exams in one way– practice. Sitting down an practicing a piece or skill until I’m confident with it makes me feel a lot better about it. If I have an exam on material I’m not familiar with I stress out a lot more about it than I do with exams with material that I’ve gotten right several times in practice.

I also have a few ways that I relieve stress in general. These include origami, yoga, dancing and getting together with friends at the Korean Pop Culture club to learn about something that’s not related to major and it purely for fun.

These methods help me to stay organized and productive so I think they work pretty well. The ones that relieve the most stress for me are dancing and going to club meetings, which I think improve my mental health more than they do my academic, which is still important. Overall, I think I have good ways of managing my stress.

Johari Window Blog Post

--Original published at Rachel's Blog

Last week I had eleven people fill out the Johari Window for personality traits that describe me. This was able to show me how the traits I picked for myself compared to what others thought of me. For myself, I picked that I was quiet, friendly, helpful, trustworthy, and organised. When reviewing my results, 54% of people agree that I am friendly, 54% think that I am kind, and 63% of people agree that I am trustworthy. From these results and viewing what everyone thought of me, my description of myself and what others think is very similar. This is because four out of the five traits that I picked for myself, were picked at least once by someone from the list of eleven people. This is a good test to take because you can think of yourself as one way, but this is a good way to see how others view you because they could view you as the complete opposite of how you think your personality is. I think that this is a valid measure of personality because the people who were asked to do this are probably good friends with whoever asked them to do this, so they are fully aware of your personality and how you act. To make the results possibly a little more accurate you could have a few anonymous people who you do not know observe you and see what they think of your personality by completing this. From this, you could learn a few things about yourself. When looking through the characteristics that these few people picked about me, people also thought of me as kind, accepting, and dependable. Overall, I thought this was a neat way to determine personality.

Johari Window – Extra Credit Post

--Original published at Manda's College Blog

Last week I was able to get 15 people to pick 5-6 personality traits they believed I had. I picked for myself kind, observant, quiet, self-conscious, mature, and nervous. Picking good things and not so good things about myself that I wish I could approve on. These we my results from everyone else:

60% of people think that Eitmaher is friendly
53% of people think that Eitmaher is powerful

able (20%) accepting (26%) adaptable (0%) bold (13%) brave (46%) calm (0%) caring (46%) cheerful (13%) clever (0%) complex (6%) confident (0%) dependable (0%) dignified (0%) energetic (46%) extroverted (0%) friendly (60%) giving (26%) happy (6%) helpful (6%) idealistic (0%) independent (20%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (13%) introverted (0%) kind (6%) knowledgeable (6%) logical (0%) loving (13%) mature(6%) modest (0%) nervous (0%) observant (20%) organised (6%) patient (0%) powerful (53%) proud (6%) quiet (6%) reflective (0%) relaxed (0%) religious (0%) responsive (0%) searching (0%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (6%) sensible (0%) sentimental (6%) shy (6%) silly (13%) spontaneous (0%) sympathetic (0%) tense (0%) trustworthy (26%) warm (13%) wise (0%) witty (6%)

I honestly didn’t look too much into this personality quiz because I believe there are better quizzes out there that friends could fill out for me. I felt like the choices were almost too nice. I already know I’m friendly and I don’t know what I’m supposed to do with that result. If I wasn’t friendly enough, would I have any one do this quiz for me? The second most picked choice was powerful, which it was kind of surprising. Most of the people that did this quiz, I train with at the gym so I feel like I would say that to them as well if they had me do a quiz for them. I would like to have the quiz follow with questions of why they picked these particular traits, and what I could improve on. I feel like the results I received is what I already know but I actually more than anything appreciated the people that took the time to fill this quiz out. Again, this test would be more sincere and even fun for me and others if it was more in depth, by asking questions and giving honest feedback. Nonetheless it was still fun.

First Impression Post – Week 11: Stress

--Original published at Site Title

For this week’s first impression post, I chose to discuss the first prompt. No matter how hard we try to avoid it, stress is an inevitable thing that will always find a way to creep into our lives more often than we would like it to, especially as college students. However, there are many things that can be done to help keep stress at a minimum level.

Overall, I personally feel like having good time management is the best way to manage stress. The better you are at managing time, the more time you have to relax and do things that you find enjoyable. I like to make sure that I am efficient and organized when getting homework done, and that I am not waiting until the last minute to complete it. I have found that if I get my work done and out of the way, I have more time to spend time with my friends, relax, eat meals at regular times, get exercise, and get regular sleep, which all majorly help improve my stress levels. Though I still feel very stressed out at times, as most people usually so, I have found that doing these things have effectively helped me to be successful in improving my overall levels of stress.

To be even more effective in managing my stress, I think it would be realistic to try to get ahead on some work. As of right now, my strategy is to do all of the work that I need to be done in the near future and then take a break. While I value those breaks and don’t really need to work ahead, it would more than likely reward me to pick one or two nights a week where I get some extra work done instead of watching Netflix.