Thursday, September 27, 2012

Face-palming Myself Because I Forgot to Post This Earlier



           So far, my experiences of being a Capstone Scholar have been pretty fun. I really enjoy it and the friends I have made here in Capstone are some of the best. Now that I am a month into school, I’d like to start getting more involved around campus and in the Capstone program. I haven’t been able to attend as many social events or conversations as I would like, but I now feel settled in enough to start figuring out how to work around this issue.
            I have always been a little scared of being a leader. It scares me how much responsibility is placed on you and how much other people depend on you. I find myself more comfortable following someone else especially if it is regarding something I am not familiar with. However, I have had past experiences with leadership. After dancing for ten years, I was very comfortable with myself in that area of my life. As I grew older and progressed as a dancer, my teachers would gradually give me more leading positions, whether it was being one of the main dancers always in the front lines or being the team captain and handling everything regarding the team at competitions.
            Now that I am in college, and very out of my comfort zone of dance, I am going to have to find a way to get comfortable here like I did in dance. This is my own personal challenge that I will always have to overcome. If I can overcome that issue, then I would have no problem taking up leadership positions. With the service learning at Hand coming up, I am a little nervous, because if I have very little confidence in myself, then what would my mentee think of me? I want them to view me as a confident and collected individual that they can count on. So now, I need to step up not only for me but for others as well. If I want to see this kind of change in others, then I need to make a change too.

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