Reflective Essay On My Identity

I am a woman, a mother, a wife, a lesbian who is gainfully employed yet still very middle class. I have a bachelor's degree in Business Project Management yet I do not always include that in my identity. I am a college student working on my Master’s degree in Higher and Post-Secondary Education. I am White Anglo-American of German, Irish and European descent. I tend to be pretty liberal in my views of society and politics. I think life experiences have helped mold my personal identity and identify what I value and respect in others.
Being a woman, a mom and a wife are how I mostly identify myself. Being a woman I often recognize the double standards still in our everyday lives. I do find it difficult to be a woman sometimes, still in how society looks at and treats women. I feel that I often come across as defensive because if a man acted the way I did it would be expected. In the Multiculturalism on Campus text, it is noted that “the reality that women’s learning takes place in a wide variety of contexts, public, private, formal, informal, and in settings intimate
Student engagement was elusive to me as a non-traditional student. If I would have known the questions to ask or was presented with possible pathways I may have found my answers sooner. That is not how it worked for me. When I look at my journey through higher education and my career, I have a lot of sympathy and empathy for others struggling on their journey. Prior to this program I did not realize how much programming in the universities is focused on the development of the student. Working in the technology group has made me look at my role a little differently now. Technology allows us to produce more educational experiences and that engagement should be discriminatory. My education was important and I pursued it for many years, but I was not fully aware of the identity I was