Intro to Thesis/ Spring 2019
What will be your greatest strength and greatest challenge when doing your thesis?
As we start the Spring semester at DSI, we were asked to list our greatest strengths and challenges. Getting familiar with yourself and your insecurities proved to be a great exercise to get started. Writing these things out, the exercise seemed at first to solidify my insecurities, as if the list was my own personal mantra. But, as I reviewed the list I had a second thought. What if these words are not really as true about me as I thought?
Strength
Design Background
Based on my undergraduate studies and my work experience, I believe graphic design – branding, packaging, and editorial, to be some of my strengths. Sometimes I cannot explain myself but graphic design really gave me opportunities to communicate with audience through visual ways.
Sense of Fashion
Growing up in a relatively rich and warm family, I always keep pursuing spiritual enrichment and sense of identity on the basis of a stable material foundation and become more independent to manage myself orderly. Through constant contacts with fresh things, life aesthetics of my own is obtained as well. And with the pursuit of individual freedom, I’m eager to be a fashionable fashion trend maker.
Listen to People
I like people in all their complexities. I like listening to people and taking the time to acknowledge that everyone's experience is valid. It is really inspired to heard things from people with diversity background.
Providing Guidance to Help People Navigate Life's Challenges
Professional counseling is a professional relationship that empowers diverse individuals, families, and groups to accomplish mental health, wellness, education, and career goals.
I like to challenge myself, I used to be a consultant when I lived in Shanghai. Counselors work with clients on strategies to overcome obstacles and personal challenges that they are facing.
Challenge
Lack of Social Networks
This is a big challenge for international students to build their social networks in New York. But I already met people in DSI, and I think people are welling to help school project, ALWAYS say I am a student!
Language Barries & Culture Barries
I am not speaking English as fluently as native speaker, sometimes I feel terrified to speak English.
As a foreigner, I also face a big problem is that how can I understand deeply with American culture and what is my capacity through these 2-year academic life?
Procrastination - the action of delaying or postponing something.
Procrastination is a challenge I have all faced at one point or another. For as long as humans have been around, I have been struggling with delaying, avoiding, and procrastinating on issues that matter to me.
During my more productive moments, when I temporarily figure out how to stop procrastinating, I feel satisfied and accomplished.
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