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Jessica Annabelle Horton - Who Am I Reflection
Jessica Annabelle Horton - Who Am I Reflection
Jessica Annabelle Horton - Who Am I Reflection
UH 120
June 6, 2020
Who Am I? Reflection
Who Am I?
how important it is to truly know who you are to be able to effectively set and achieve
goals. I started as a student at the University of Alabama with some college credit, so I
I will be graduating earlier than expected, and have a shorter amount of time to decide
what the next few years of my life will include. To set the most effective goals for
myself, I will need to understand who I am, who I aspire to be, and how I will get from
To begin to set future goals, I will first define who I am with respect to my
identities and background. There are many ways to define who I am demographically. I
am Sean and Jessica’s daughter, Chip’s big sister, a granddaughter, and a friend. I
have been fortunate to grow up in Savannah, Georgia, which is a beautiful city on the
coast with a strong sense of history combined with a desire to progress. Growing up, I
went to an elementary and middle school that was a visual and performing arts magnet
school, where I learned to appreciate the importance of the arts and creativity. I
continued my education at an all-girls high school whose motto is “Women Who Lead”.
My high school gave me the opportunity to find my voice as a strong female and
cultivate leadership skills that I have been able to rely on throughout my life. All these
are facts about who I am, but I think it is critical to determine what the most important
things are to me. The most important thing to me is people. Of course, my family and
friends are important to me, but people in general are. I enjoy meeting new people,
hearing their stories, learning who they are, and most importantly, helping them.
The goal to help others comes from experiences that I have had in the past. I
was born with a birthmark on my left cheek. My whole life, I have had people ask me
about it, sometimes they are simply curious, sometimes they are just rude. Either way, I
know what it is like to be judged for something you have no control over. When I was a
that people who have speech difficulties like stuttering experienced something like what
I experienced with my birthmark: Being questioned and judged for something they had
no control over. So, to describe who I want to be in the simplest terms, I want to be a
Speech Language Pathologist. Further, I want to be an SLP who helps her patients
overcome their speech challenges and gain confidence. Ultimately, it is my hope that
when my patients reflect on their time in speech therapy, they will know that I supported
Language Pathologist I plan to be in the future, I will use what I learn in my Personal
and Professional Development class. One aspect of the course that I believe will be
high school, I began to develop a local network of professionals who were able to give
looking forward to learning how to develop a similar network that is specifically related
to speech language pathology. Also, I believe that this course will help me significantly
have done research on resumes, I have found much conflicting advice about proper
developed resume and cover letter in this course. Finally, I want to learn to develop my
own personal brand during this course. I am proficient in most types of social media but
could use instruction in how to create and maintain a consistent, professional, personal
brand.
Pathologist and help people with speech challenges. In order to do that, I have
determined who I am, and who I want to be. Using all the knowledge I’ll gain in
Personal and Professional Development will help me outline a clear plan to become the