Final ALE Reflection

Within the Discipline

There have been many situations where I have been a
leader. Three of those things were Captain of the cheer
team my senior year of high school, leading a group
project in one of my major college courses
(psychology), and this Residential Leader experience.
This experience as an RL has contributed to my
understanding of the connection of my academic
experience quite a bit. With my future job as a
psychologist, you deal with a lot of different people, just
as a residential leader does. It helped me understand
that everyone is different and people figure out things
differently than everyone else, and that is something
that is going to be important to understand with my
future job.

Beyond the Discipline

Three things outside of the leadership experience that

has contributed to my understanding of the connection
between my academic experience and meaningful realworld application is being an aunt to my two nephews,
being the responsible friend in my group of friends
throughout high school, and not being a procrastinator.
These situations have helped me connect my academic
experience and real-world situations by helping me
become a responsible aunt, friend, and college student.
This will help me be the person I am becoming in the
future.

Beyond Academics

A couple things that have helped me understand the

connection between my academic experience and realworld application is seeing people not do well in
college, and being partly responsible for others
academics. Seeing people fail in college for some
reason really drives me to finish because I can see how
hard it is for people and I want that accomplishment of
finishing something some people dont do. Lastly, being
partly responsible for my residents being responsible
and doing well in classes helps me be responsible in my
own homework by seeing the different ways they do
things.

Interconnectedness

Within the discipline, beyond the discipline, and beyond

academics, being an RL has really taught me that
helping others is one of my passions, because being in
this position has given me the opportunity to act as a
support system for others, which is what I want to do
with my psychology degree in a childrens hospital one
day.

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