INTR 1020 Final Reflection Prompts

1. You began this course by exploring your future career and creating a Weebly page that
described the qualifications and skills necessary to be successful in that career. In 3-5,
well written sentences tell us what career you chose and why you want to follow this
path. What is your motivation? If your choice no longer attracts you, what alternative
are you considering and why do you think this is a better match?
I chose chemical technician as my career because there were some interesting facts
that is very unique about this career than many others. My motivation is to make
chemicals very useful for the environment and also to make sure that it can be safe to
use. If I this doesn’t work out, then my second option would be pre pharmacy. I would
think pharmacy would be a better match because I worked in a hospital and I used
pharmacy as a method since this is my one of interests to do in my career.

2. In the second week you brought a set of notes to class and reviewed them with a
partner. Afterwards you revised them to make them more useful for learning. In 3-5,
well written sentences describe what changes you made to your notes and explain why
you found this helpful.

Since this was my first time using the website, it was really challenging at first. But
once I got to play around and get to know how to use the website a lot better, I was
able to figure it out. While taking notes, my website would freeze at certain times and
it would be very frustrated, so I had to create another website and the process was
much smoother.

3. In week 3 you came up with a degree plan. In 3-5, well written sentences describe what
you hope to achieve at UCBA and what plan to do after UCBA.

What I hope to achieve at UCBA, is to get my associate degree and to make UCBA my
second home. Also, I want to use all my resources that are available at UCBA. My plan
to do after UCBA is to get my bachelor’s degree at UC main campus. The resources
that I will get in UCBA I can get much more at UC main campus. Those resources will
also help me in the future when I use it for my career.

4. In the fourth week you started doing research on your chemical substance. In 3-5, well
written sentences describe your compound and what you found out about it.

When I first knew about benzene, I thought that benzene was only poisonous. But
there are lots of things that I didn’t know about benzene. One thing that I didn’t know
about benzene is that benzene was used in plastics and certain types of fibers.

5. In week 5, using Bloom’s Taxonomy levels as a guide, you wrote questions about the
chapter you had read in the Poisoner’s Handbook. Share with us your two best
questions and in 3-5, well written sentences say why you picked them.
One of the questions that I’m very proud of is, Describe Wood Alcohol and state what it’s
used for? The reason that I thought of this question is because looking back at the
book, scientists were trying to figure out what makes it very poisonous. Also, another
question that I made up was Locate the place where Norris was harassing the city
departments? This question that I made really stood up to me because I would never
think that a scientist would start harassing others in the city. This reminds me of a
similar situation of when I wrote a paper for psychology about crystal meth and how
people’s personality and attitudes changed for the worse.

5. In week 6 you did an assessment of an exam and reviewed how you had prepared for it.
In 3-5, well written sentences describe three study strategies you used that worked well
and tell us why they worked well, or describe three study strategies that you are going
to try for the next exam and tell us why you think they might help you prepare.
I had prepared for it by having someone next to me and have them quiz me. For the
next exam, I will reserve the study room and have my study buddies with me. Another
thing that I will do is go to the library and study by myself. Also making flashcard with
the information that I need.

7. Threaded through the whole course has been the Poisoner’s Handbook. In 3-5, well
written sentences tell us what you enjoyed most about your chapter. What made the
case particularly interesting?
I like how the story makes one character the bad guy. The idea of this one character is
that becomes the bad guy is very tense because in the book they are very suspicious and
hiding information. For example: Norris was hired to investigate the problem, but we
don’t know who did it. But after he was hired, Norris was also acting very suspicious
himself.

8. Another piece of the course was creating an e-portfolio (Weebly) that allowed you to
build a professional online image as a UCBA student. In 3-5 well written sentences tell
us what pages you found particularly useful and why.
I thought when we first started to create or get the idea of creating the video was very
helpful because the step by step directions can help me make my website more
organized. Also, on the left-hand side under basic, there are several buttons that can
make my website better. Including upload pictures with a Scribd document. With
these directions to make our website better, I think my website looks good and I’m
very proud of myself for making my first website a success.

9. And finally, in 5-8 well written sentences tell us what things you really enjoyed in the
course and why. What things should we definitely keep in for next semester?
What I enjoy about the course is have little discussions about whatever topic that our
professors come up with. Plus, we do icebreakers to get to know each other. I believe
that you guys should keep the portfolio for next semester. This class went by so fast
and it was really fun to get to know our professors.
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