Reflction

Flex studies are designed to guide students who want to dive deeper into their interests. As per me i wanted to learn a  bit more about my religion and choose or atleast have an idea of a career path. 

I was very glad to work with Ms.Thielen because it gave me a sense of direction and a clear vision for my career. Although I wasn't sure about my future career path I knew that I wanted to do something in the medical field. 

Flex studies was very helpful. I am very glad i took the class. It wasn't very stressful and it gave me time to think more about what I wanted.

If i wanted to add some things I would definitely like to add an assignment once in a while with a deadline just to be on track. I would also like to have a summary of the week's discussion to discuss what we did in the week and what we can do in the upcoming weeks to have a vision on where we are going.  I DEFINITELY recommend this class.

Ms.Thielen was also suervising my Quranic studies with Ms.Cohen. My Quranic studies was something that I really liked. I learnt a lot from that and I was surrised by many things I learnt. I was very curous and reading from three different books was very interesting. I did ask questions from somme people and I didn't really get answers that I was satisfied with so I wrote my questions and used a concordence to find answers to my questions myself. I learnt a lot from this study. Though I would like to have a bit more structure I liked how flexible it was and I enjoye the limitlessness of the reseach I could do for my questions.  I couldn't get answers to all of my questions. Though throughout this journey of a semester I learnt way more about my religion than I could possibly think of. I learnt many cool things like how my religion is pro choice and supports women working and all sorts of rights that today women are fighting for. Indeed I was brought up to think that men wee superior than women but that is not what my book says and I want to trust my religion and  my book instead of ingrained thoughts from other people. 

This flex priliminar study was extremely helpful for me to read about my religion, understand what I wanted to know and find answers to my questions. I loved working with Ms.Cohen on this and I am extremely happy I took this class because I learnt a lot and I think for my future goals I would keep reading the Quran and maybe I would do an independant study on the Quran in future. 

I really enjoyed the class overall.