Minara Akter
CEP 121: Course Code – 7006
05 February 2009
Professor: Stacy Perry
Reflection Essay
This semester was a great opportunity to learn about myself, my future goals and also
had helped me to understand the factors that influence my career choices and my success.
For this semester most of my classes were related to my major, which gave me more
opportunity to be more spotlight on my career path.
My major is Business
Administration and the classes that I took was Marketing, Business Law, Communication
and Sociology which let me become further aware about the business world works, what
are the laws we should be conscious, why keeping communication is involved so much in
order to deal in professional world and as well as global economy. There are so many
valuable information that I became to know which drove to become more challengeable.
The learning experience from my classes has strengthened my inner ability and I can
positively admit that I am almost ready to prepare my future career as a student and as a
professional.
To discuss about the semester about my academic and career goals, one of my class
that impacted me the most was CEP121(professional fundamental professionalism),
where I was writing the essay about me and edifying my resume I had an opportunity to
think about myself which I always don’t think. I tried to find my personalities including
strength points and weak points, and I learned how to explain myself professionally. Goal
setting suggested me to work for it and how to achieve the goals. They made my goals
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more reasonable and made them easy to achieve. I was able to organize my ideas about
my professional future goals. Similarly I was able to evaluate and compare my
experience, my knowledge against my educational plans in order for me to get a new idea
of my goals and ambitions.
There are more classes that I took which had big impacts on my academic and career
goals
such
as
ENG
101(Composition-
Introduction
to
writing)
and
ENG
102(Composition II, Writing Through Literature). By reading and writing projects and
assignments for the class my skills were developed which took me through to finish
doing all of my class tasks. I have learned how to use quotations from the sources in
doing researches and I also have learned how to write objectively. Focusing mainly on
short stories and poems increased my interest in literature. Researching unfamiliar topic
is a learning experience especially when it is related to our interest.
The major that I choose is Business Administration; I do have an ambition to be an
entrepreneur. For the business world it is essential to know about the marketing plans,
targeting market, those are the most essential area that I needed more understanding
which I gain from my AMM 104(principles of marketing) class and I also learned how to
be clear and measurable, and have a stated time frame for achievement. In order for me to
be more communicative with people I had to be more conscious about several aspects of
society such as racial and gender relations as well as institutions such as family and
religion, the overview of our modern society how it works, also many sociological
concepts I had learned because the world is becoming much more diverse day by day.
The year of 2009 is a challenge for me because I am high achiever, I am trying to
keep my GPA as high as possible, I am a scholarship recipient which encouraging me to
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move forward towards my goals. After this semester I still need to take more credits to be
graduate by Fall 2009. Then I have a plan to go to Baruch College for my Bachelors
degree and I also plan to do my MBA in Business/Finance at Columbia University. Since
my career will be related to the fiend of Business/Marketing/Advertising I have to try to
concentrate my attention on developing communication and other skills in order for me to
be prepared for business world. Finally I would like state that learning in class is one
aspect of education, but self-obtained knowledge is equally important. Enlightenment
through experience and reading is the purpose in school, and it signifies one’s
development.
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