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| Describe a time when a personal failure became a positive experience. Easy-peasy. The thesis.  I won't drag everyone through the drama again, but I consider it a partial failure because this means I don't get to officially graduate from the Honors Program.  Granted, I have the choice of delaying my graduation (yet again) to work with the professor and developing the thesis more to her standards, but I've already been accepted into a credential program for their fall intake, and well, chances are, the relationship between the professor and me would steadily grow downhill. Soooo I'm not "finishing" the thesis, which means I didn't "graduate," but now I know what a thesis looks like and how to write one.  So in a way, that's a positive experience, right?Also, this sounds like a job interview question.  Going back to the prompt- yeah, I went back to campus on Friday to help with orientation for first year Honors Humanities students, so while I was at it, I brought the Honors adviser some cookies as a thank you and followed up about her email that she never replied me (not necessarily in that order) . She cleared up my questions, and also noted that I had been out in the sun (guess that means I got darker- yay!  ), then informed me there would be an alumni bonfire coming up in the nearish future that would be at the beach at night.  I definitely want to go, but also, that would mean night driving on the freeway, so we'll see. Maybe I can find someone who lives somewhat nearby to carpool with me?  Or I'll see if I can get dropped off/picked up. Because I don't mind night driving, but night driving on the freeway is definitely iffy for me since I don't think I've done it before, and there are more crazy drivers at night, I'd argue. Plus the possibility of drunk drivers would probably also go up. So we'll see. They are most definitely a community I want to stay in touch with, though.The orientation itself also went really well- I was surprised at how well I could answer their questions and guide them/advise them on potential classes they could take. There's a Cantonese phrase that roughly translates to "Ask 10 questions, can't answer 9," and that was what I was expecting. Buuut it ended up being more general questions of tech support, helping out with various scheduling/class questions, and making sure the students enrolled for the correct classes! One class in particular is mandatory for all incoming humanities students, so there's probably 3-4 different lectures at different times and days.... and for this class, you're also required to sign up for a discussion- some students were trying to sign up for, say, lecture 1, but then a discussion from lecture 2, which isn't allowed. That seemed to be the most common problem I saw on Friday, I believe. I then got a lunch, free milk tea drink, and free ice cream dessert afterwards- Mom sent me link about a new ice cream place opening in the town center, so I went with an honors friend to investigate, since neither of us had heard (or seen) such a thing happening. Turns out it was in the next plaza over (about 2 blocks  ) so we walked over there and decided to try an asian fusion place we'd heard was good since we wanted real food before having ice cream. Both places used Fivestars (food loyalty app) and usually if it's your first visit, places will give you some kind of promotion. The Asian fusion was a free drink with purchase (we ate there, so we did make a purchase ) and the ice cream place was a free small ice cream (2 huge scoops ). Yeah, so this thesis stuff did turn out to be a good thing. I got lots of free food, I got to advise incoming first-year students, and I reconnected with some Honors friends.  And on a more academic note, I now know how to write a thesis.  |
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