Hanexi Pérez
Professor Cynthia Pittmann
ENGL 3103-138
June 5, 2018

Journal Reflection 

After a semester of being affected by the natural catastrophe that hit Puerto Rico and that being my first semester as a university student, I had again the opportunity to carry out the journal project and the life compass project. In comparison with my first experience with both projects, it was one of greater benefit and learning. Having, already, an idea of ​​what the two projects really consist of and having a better command of the guidelines, in both jobs, this second experience was much more useful and worthy. As for the Journal Project my mentality has changed remarkably since, unlike the previous experience, I was able to enjoy and improve my writing without. Besides that, now I could really understand the abstract idea of ​​the Project that is to express my thoughts and dedicate myself a few minutes of the day to self-reflect or organize myself while I am practicing my written English. I no longer have to write for ten minutes, now I felt that those minutes were flying. Before maybe I was a bit afraid or lazy to be obligated to write for a few minutes and it was a challenge for me but after letting go and daring my perception changed.

As for the life compass project, I think it is a technique that was very useful for me and could be very useful for many people. It is an exercise that must be done by everyone at least once a day. This exercise works as a self-evaluation of four very important aspects of the human being. In my case it worked pretty well since it was the time of the day where I analyzed how I felt physically, emotionally, spiritually and mentally. This evaluation made me analyze what were the possible factors that caused some effect in any of the aspects. In addition to that you can analyze some pattern in one of those four areas and how you are influencing in some way in my decisions of that day. You could say that this is my favorite project because it is fast, direct and very useful.

Unlike the two previous projects this project was one in which almost no work was done but it was quite fun. This new project is named as a multi-project Project, this work had as its objective the realization of different types of genres that we study. I suppose that because of the little time available that we had in this special semester, it was not possible to carry out a significant amount of work, but the few we did were interesting. The activity of writing a letter to my young self was an activity that I enjoyed a lot because I had to reflect on many of my decisions taken throughout my life and I could at least imagine what would have happened if I had taken the other path as It would have been to continue playing baseball. It also helped me to add value and remember several of my achievements, sometimes remembering your victories helps you remember how great you can be.

In conclusion, the set of projects carried out during this academic period were very useful and teaching for me. The previous experience with two of the three projects helped me to get a better benefit and understanding of this. I find them very useful jobs for anyone, it helps you identify your mistakes and reanalyze your actions.

            Work Cited

Pittman, Cynthia. Class Assignment. Journal Reflection. UPRRP June 2018