mod 1 1708-FE Patrick Neel
Write 1-2 paragraphs about your StrengthsFinder themes: How have you seen yourself using these strengths at Turing? Has your understanding of these strengths changed since you first reflected on them? If so, how?
I think that I've done a descent job at using these since my time at Turing. It's pretty easy to get caught up in school and everything else that goes on and forget about your strengths. It's nice to be able to go back and and look at them, and use them as a reminder of your strengths. At first I wasn't really happy with the futuristic as a strength, but now I think it isn't so bad. In that the program is only 7 months long. That time is quite strenous, and very difficult, but there is an end in sight. Which has been helpful when working on weekends or putting in long hours. That this won't be forever. Other than that I've been using them kind of as I would've in the past and definitely adhering to that growth mindset and telling myself that I can, and not to give up.
Write a story about your Turing experience so far: When have you struggled? How have you dealt with struggle? When have you succeeded at Turing? How did you accomplish those successes?
It's been a bit of a struggle for a majority so far. There have been some minor vitories along the way that. It's good to not rest on those victories, and to keep going. I've struggles with trying to absorb all the iformation we're learning while trying to do partner projects and and personal projects. Has been a challenge to juggle, and work on time management. I think it's really easy to get bogged on a project or stuck and just keep spinning the wheels with nothing happening. I've been very dilligent about moving on to something else if I get stuck, and then coming back to it, or reaching out for help.
Answer the question: how does your Turing story end? Create a vision for your future and your career transition into being a junior developer.
I'd like for my Turing story to end by helping out and paying it forward to people in the cohorts below me. Just as other people in cohorts ahead of me have done. Keep the Turing community strong, caring, and close knit community. Ideally after Turing and a much needed vacation to somewhere warm. I'd get a job anywhere for a couple of years and put all my skills that I've learned at Turing. Not just programing, but how to work in a collobrative group, and everything else we'll learn.
After you practice storytelling in the session, answer this question: What was particularly easy or difficult about telling your story? What are 1-2 steps that you can take to continue to improve your abilities to tell your story, talk about yourself with ease, and examine your strengths?
The hardest thing for me, and probably a lot of people is to talk about yourself in front of other people. Also doing it in a way where it is coming from a geniune place, and not bragging, but also with ease and confidence. Talking about those things with other people in different mods and cohorts. Because we're all here for the same reason and have very similar goals, and are going the same things. It's a good place to work on those type of skills.