The Honors Forum Setting

The Honors Forum meeting that has influenced me the most in the last month was the meeting on what is considered proper dress attire. I've never been the most well dressed person, so having someone lay out what is appropriate was very helpful. Something that that stuck out to me was the way that people perceive you based on what you wear. It makes complete sense now that someone has said it to me, but it has begun to change the way that I see myself. In the line of work that I am going into where business casual is honestly cargo shorts and a Marvel shirt, it hadn't dawned on me how people outside of my career path may see me. Anyone who doesn't know that I am a film student may think that I am lazy and don't care about getting a job, when
in reality I see it as dressing for the job I want. This realization has shown me that even though I am not necessarily dressing inappropriately, I need to be more conscientious about what I am communicating to people around me. Another point I enjoyed during this lesson was learning about appropriate body language. Body language has been something that I have focused a lot of my self improvement on over the last few years. I was always slouched over and generally unhappy looking which sent the wrong message even though I had no idea how it looked. While I did learn a lot from that section of the lesson, I was more relieved to hear that I had been doing the right things to counter those bad habits I had been trying to fix over the last few years. Overall, this lesson was very helpful to me and I believe it one that everyone should hear once.