Understanding the Self

(Book Activities)

Submitted by:
Lhanz Alcher M. Co
CBEA 1-A

Submitted to:
Ms. Aira Alvaro
UTS – Professor
Reflection:
College will be an exciting, fun, and memorable time in your life. You will be constantly
surrounded by your friends, exploring what it means to be an adult, and trying out new
things. But this “fun” needs some limits. While college should be an enjoyable season of
life, it is also one of the most important times for you to prepare for a career. You will
develop new skills and learn more about yourself in the process. While college will be
fun and exciting, those four years will fly by quickly and you’ll want to feel prepared for
the “real-world” when you’re handed a diploma.

Understanding the Self is an individual process of development. Understanding yourself

for who you are now and who you want to become. Best example of this is our dream
when we are still kids. When we are still little we dreamt of something different from the
course we our taking now also with the help of K-12. Everything is changing from time
to time. You may like it now but later on it will change. Within the whole subject I became
more familiar of my own capabilities. Futher more, this subject taught us to be familiar
not just to ourselves but also to other's capabilities. We became more open to other's
perspective, that we, people, had different kind of natures and perception in life. We
should be more flexible especially to those people who are opposite to our sights. That
this world we are standing in had different kind of standard of beauty, understanding
within anything and such. In here, I understood where your 'needs and wants' need to
be fulfilled. Sometimes we thought of something we tend to considered as our needs
without knowing that it is just our self-need. As a student it is important for me to identify
what are my 'needs and wants' because there are many future expenses that I may
encounter. We should understand this theory especially we are future accountants that
should have critical thinking not just in money but in everything we do. I conclude that
understanding the self in the first semester of college is for us to examine ourselves if this
course is the course we love to take or it is just the 'no choice course, peer-group course'
that is why I took it. It is giving us accounts of the initial upset experienced by students
when faced with the demands of authority made by this semester.

I may not learn a lot nor remember the terms that our professor (Ms. Aira Alvaro) taught
us, but I will always remember the life lessons she taught us: not to cheat, and always do
your best.