I’m happy that I was able to spend a lot of time volunteering with various organizations this year. I have spent a good amount of my time doing volunteer foot patrols with the Coquitlam RCMP. It was awesome to be active in serving my local community.
It was an honour to be a Gold Scholar graduate this year. It is always a great feeling to have your hard work acknowledged.
I am grateful to be accepted into my top choice for university. It is a competitive program that I honestly thought I would not get into, but I was able to make it. I look forward to being more independent as I move to another province to continue my studies.
Although the football season did not go as planned, I really appreciate the fact that I got to experience my senior season. I will miss all the memorable moments that I had while playing football for the past four years here at Centennial.
Areas To Improve
Goals
Action Plans
Read more books and use social media less
I will read at least a page of an interesting book everyday from now on into the summer. Hopefully I will continue with this habit instead of wasting time scrolling through social media.
Lift heavier weights at the gym
I will train consistently and effectively every day throughout the summer months to achieve prs in my bench press, squat, and deadlift.
Buy a yacht
I will work so hard that I will be wealthy enough to buy a yacht. This will likely happen after I graduate university and have established my own company. I will be a multi-millionaire before I am 30. Once I buy my yacht, I will sail for a few months on the Mediterranean coastline just living life.
Both the piggy lab and the heart lab were dissections that allowed me to collaborate with a partner when observing the internal organs of a living organism. This was interesting because I got to actually see what these various organ parts looked like internally, and this was helpful because I am a visual learner. In terms of my roles and responsibilities in these labs, I completed one part of the dissections while my partner completed the next part. This split our work evenly and ensured that we both understood what we were observing. Sometimes we would confuse one part of an organ with another similar looking part, so this forced us to review our notes/diagrams to make sure we knew the differences. I think that the quiz that we had to do for both labs solidified our knowledge of the organ parts and was helpful to do before writing the tests. If there was a part/function that my partner did not quite get, I would try my best to explain it or we looked it up and agreed on whatever made the most sense. Sharing this information helped us both do well on the lab assignments. I think that effectively collaborating with peers is crucial in this course because it helps students realize the gaps in their understanding and ensures that work can be completed accurately. As for what I could improve on, I would say that I should pay better attention to the initial lab demonstration by our teacher. This is because I had a difficult time doing the dissection just by looking at the diagrams afterward and this was especially challenging if my partner also did not pay much attention. In the end, the dissections still turned out fine regardless.
Creative Thinking (Thinking CC)
In the pig dissection lab, it was sometimes difficult to see organs that were covered by another organ or leaking fluid. This enabled me to use my notes and calculate where the unidentified organ was located roughly. I drew my conclusions based on the vicinity of the other organs I was pretty sure about. My partner suggested that we look up pictures of a completed pig dissection and compare our dissection with it. This was a good idea because even though our dissection was not as pretty, we had a better idea of where the organs were and it helped us on the quiz. I think that trying to brainstorm solutions before continuing on with the lab made sure that we avoided any errors. It is always a good strategy to check over your work a few times before moving on. As for what we could improve on, I would say we could have taken a little more time in making better incisions. We rushed some of the incisions which caused fluid to leak on some organs, blocking our view at times.
Positive Personal Identity (Personal/Social CC)
In both labs, my partner was away during the last parts of each lab. This included when we had to unravel the intestines in the pig lab and identify the last few parts of the heart lab. Instead of waiting for my partner on another day, I just decided to finish up after school or during flex. I feel I am strong in taking initiative to complete work on my own. This is connected to my identity because I feel that I can figure things out with or without extra help. It doesn’t matter to me. Even though it took some time out of my day, I was fine with wrapping up both labs and giving my partner the data after. My partner was grateful for this and I am usually happy to help most of the time. Making this decision helped me move on to the next task which was studying for the test. As for what I could improve on, I would probably try to work with other peers in the lab who were using flex to finish up as well. This would have saved time in the process of trying to unravel the intestine because it was hard to find where to cut.