Artifact 1: Revisiting the "I Am"/ "I Want to Become" Statements

In this page, you will find a set of identity statements that I wrote about myself at the beginning of my time in college. They contain my goals and aspirations for my upcoming years in college. I revisited these statements at the end of my senior year to reflect on how I have grown and how my goals have progressed or changed in that time frame. 

Introduction

Reflection

It is fitting that my goals have not changed since I started college, as that shows I have been striving for the same thing throughout my four years at IUPUI/IU Indy. I believe that goals are not meant to be achieved overnight. If that is the case for our goals, it might mean that we are dreaming too small and limiting ourselves with our beliefs. On the contrary, I believe goals should be almost unattainable but reachable if you put in effort. I have heard it said, "It is not about how many hours you can put in a day but how many days you can put in an hour," and I believe this is true. It is more important to have consistency than short bursts of high, unmaintainable levels of energy. 

While I say my goals have not changed, I think it would be unfair to myself not to highlight the areas of growth that I have experienced in college. I have grown severely in every area of my life since freshman year. My hobbies have changed, my diet has changed, my routines have changed, and my friends have changed. And these are all with the desire to align myself with the goals that I want to achieve. Naturally, some goals take different lengths of time and effort to complete, so I think it is important for me to check the small things off as I can and celebrate any type of victory as a step in the direction of my larger goals.