Monday 04/17/2017 my friend Rachel asked me for a favor on behalf of her professor Dr. Dena Kniess for a multicultural course for graduate students. To be a part of a panel discussion on Arab students. Rachel asked me to talk about my experience as an Arab student at EIU and told me a bit about what I should expect from the students. At first‚ between me and myself I was a bit afraid and nervous. I was going to say “sorry Rachel‚ I can’t make it”. But then‚ I’m like “no I’ll make it‚ it’s definitely
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My experiences serving others have exposed me to the issues my community faces and have shown me that I can make a difference. My first experience working with underserved populations in my community was serving food at Union Station Homeless Services’ Thanksgiving Dinner in the Park in high school. This made me step out of my comfort zone and interact with a group I was unfamiliar with. Through serving food and interacting with homeless and low-income families‚ I saw that my small actions could
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My experience at the nursing was definitely a different one. When I first arrived there I was extremely nervous. I had never been to a nursing home or rehabilitation center before and didn’t really know what to expect but that there would be older people just sitting around not doing much. But to my surprise not everyone there was old and the older people that were there didn’t only just sit around all day. After getting over the initial fear of the Rehab center‚ I was ready to meet my client. My
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I remember how when I first walked into a fraternity house on Vanderbilt’s campus‚ I immediately thought that this was a place that I could never belong. Having a disability and identifying as gay‚ I thought that I had somehow faked my way into Vanderbilt and its perfect society. After a few months‚ I ended up feeling like I belonged at Vanderbilt more and I began to realize that there is no "perfect" Vanderbilt student. As I have become more involved in the Vanderbilt community‚ I have always looked
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Maryland‚ near the Catoctin Mountain National Parks and Cunningham Falls State Park‚ I was always considered an outdoor kid. My parents got me interested in hunting and fishing at an early age. Hunting became my true passion since my first hunting experience at the age of nine. I have also continued my interest of the outdoors by learning to shoot competitively‚ I began to shoot trap at the age of 13. Through many practices and competitions‚ my shooting ability has greatly improved and I am currently
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medications‚ assessment and discharge. On the other hand‚ there are some differences in this unit‚ eg‚ they have a lot of paper work to fill them out‚ therapy groups and the patients have schedule that they should follow through the day. It was a good experience to work in a psychiatric hospital because I need to improve my skills in this area. Psychiatric patients could be in any floor in the . hospital as a patients‚ and I need to be aware of handling this situation. In this week my goals were
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For every teenager a drastic change to their form of life like moving schools can be catastrophic. For me it became a challenge‚ new school‚ friends‚ teachers‚ and a new environment. Life as I knew it was about to change and I could not assimilate it. Change seemed like the end of a perfect world. When I moved into the new house the smell was unrecognizable‚ the environment was somber and insipid. School felt strange and I felt everyone staring at me as a strange specimen from a lab. The first weeks
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salary. I thought that once you received some type of extended education via associate’s degree‚ that it would get better for me. But‚ as I looked for employment‚ the offers only got worse. So‚ I went back into the field of work that I had all my experience in which is diesel mechanic field. I was really trying to get out of it because I was just tired of turning wrenches. I was tired of getting dirty. I realized in order for me to receive the salary that I needed and wanted‚ I needed a new career
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compared to the few other times I’ve had at the river was that it looked like the water level within the American River was rising. After witnessing this it brought to mind how happy river rafters would be to be able to continue to experience what they love. Overall‚ this experience in the rain with the wildlife really opened me up to the reality of it all and what living animals have to endure when they get a little too much rain. A lot of the wildlife that I spotted were for the most part either cuddled
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Chills covered my whole body as I observed professors in their robes for the first time at Centenary College of Louisiana. I am not the likeliest person to pursue a career in academia and research; I am a transman who grew up in Southern Louisiana‚ who was kicked out of his home‚ forced to live on the streets‚ and was told that he could never be an out trans person and thrive in academia. With the help of the Point Foundation‚ I was able to afford my Bachelor’s‚ but the inherent politicization of
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