September 18th-September 15th
This week flew by! I am starting to get a rhythm of how to manage college classes, stressful due dates, and varsity volleyball. Instead of the approach I have taken in previous years of reacting to day to day assignments, I am developing a schedule to work in advance and it is turning out to be much more beneficial. I now start the assignment as far in advance as possible to ensure success on that assignment and give myself the opportunity to revise and edit when needed. This week, I completed my contact list of possible mentors. Surprisingly, this list took a lot longer than expected. My contact list is composed of 25 people with names, phone numbers, emails, web addresses, office hours, travel distance and much more. I will use this organized list to help narrow down all the possible and well qualified chiropractors in the North Texas area. In my ISM class it has become a regular thing to introduce ourselves to our peers and have a short but informative conversation with them. I found it very easy to start and hold a conversation, but I really struggle with ending a conversation in a polite professional way. Ending a conversation will be one of my main goals for the next few weeks I am beginning to see improvement in the way I participate in conversations and I am excited to try out my new conversational tools at the business symposium on October 8th from 8am-1pm.
-Outside of the classroom, I spent approximately 5 hours on ISM work this week.
