Individual gender still greatly impacts an individual’s life.  Many assume that women are disadvantageous compared to men which is true to a certain point.  However, I feel like we are at a point where gender equality is as equal as it can be.  Achieving “Perfect gender equality” is impossible, everyone will have their biases and stereotypes that may not show on the outside but is in the inside.  It is same as racism you will never achieve a world where racism is not an issue.

I think gender equality a funny term because its more women complaining about how bad their life is.  Women can harass and abuse men all they want but when men does it, it becomes news and a crime.  Women take advantage of this fact and punch or harass men and when they get retaliated they act like they are the victim.  However, feminists never mentions any of this and men are always at fault.

My gender has not yet directly impacted my life.  I am only 18 there is really nothing that has happened yet that my gender has significantly impacted my life.

Here’s the prompt:  Describe your past experience of participating in groups. What about working in groups did you enjoy or find challenging? What would the ideal group look like to you and what would your role be?  When you are in a group what is your usual role — use a car or a boat as an analogy are you an anchor, a steering wheel, a horn, or what?

My experience participating in groups has heavily varied.  If I am paired with not the smartest people in the world I tend to try to do everything in my own hands. If I am paired with trustworthy people I tend to take a step back and let them control everything.  The most challenging part in a group is getting everyone to contribute.  As everyone knows there tends to be always that one person who wants to get away not doing anything.  However, do you really want to give that person who does not want to do anything work? Chances are the work he does will be “half-ass” and has to be redone anyways.  So the most challenging part of working in a group is getting group members that are all trustworthy.  What I enjoy the most about group work is the fact that you have other people you can ask for help.

I tend to take very different position in a group depending on my group members like I mentioned above. If I am in a group of not so smart people I want everything done in my hands. I am the steering wheel and everything that is in the boat.  I do not care how much work I have, I would rather do it myself than to give it bunch of knuckleheads. If I am with ambitious members I would just try to do my job.  I know other members on my group would probably do better than me so I would let them do what they want and I would just do anything leftover.  So I would be the horn on the boat.  I am there just in case you need me.

In high school I managed time by planning out an agenda everyday I got home on my ipad. I am using the same method in college and so far it is working well. I have been able to turn everything on time. My sleeping schedule is the best it has ever been in my 19 year life. Most of my classes are in the after noon, and only on Tuesdays and Thursdays I have to wake up at 10 which is late compared to waking up at 7:30 like I did in high school. I am also trying really hard to not eat late and not consume too much soda. For the first time in my life I have complete control of what I am eating everyday and I try to stay away from sweet drinks and drink water. Lastly, I want to be successful acadmcally here and that is hands down my number one goal, but at the same time I want to have a social life. So I am prioritizing work first and trying to invest as much as time socializing and making friends. I do not have a plan to balance life and school as things tend to work itself out naturally.

If I were to write a memoir 4 years from now on my graduation, I would write about all the great people I met during this college adventure.  Academic success is 90% of the reason why I enrolled at Stony Brook and my friends besides being great friends also are great helpers.  I am barely 2 weeks into school and my friends given me a lot of help on various assignments. In my memoir I would emphasize the importance of academic success, it’s great to have fun but at the end of the day academic success is the most important. Also I would assume professors would have played a big role to my success 4 years from now.