Final Reflection
15 years ago
Friday, October 17, 2008
My Biodata
I am a 3rd year undergraduate at the National University of Singapore (NUS), currently majoring in the Biomedical Sciences. I attended Crescent Girls’ School and completed my ‘A’Levels at Saint Andrews’ Junior College. An active girl guide during my days in Crescent Girls’ School, I was appointed to take up the role of a patrol leader. In addition, I was awarded the President Guide Award in 2002 in recognition of my leadership skills and commitment towards the organization. I was also awarded the Crescent Girls’ School Colours Award for my outstanding performance in my Co-curriculum Activity as well as the Silver Award for academic excellence in 2003. Being an individual with good communication and interpersonal relation skills, I served in the marketing committee for TalentQuest’07, an annual nation-wide event organized by the Faculty of Science at the NUS.
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Reflections
Throughout my past 2 years in NUS, I’ve never once done a major project without people I’m familiar with (that is, people whom I’ve already known beforehand) in my group before. Therefore, it had been a very interesting and new experience working with Miranda, CG, as well as Brandon, people whom I’ve only gotten to know during the course of ES2007S.
During our first informal meeting, we each took turns to voice out our expectations and agreed on transparency among group members. Transparency among members is very crucial in order for the group to work well together, and we achieved that.
Each of us had different styles of writing, citing and researching etc, but there were no major conflicts due to that. Rather, it was a great learning experience for me because I was exposed to these various styles which I believe would benefit me. It helped that everyone in the group was patient and opened to each others’ ideas, so whenever there were any disagreements, group members were most willing to hear each other out to provide useful insights. Communication among all of us was efficient, and no major conflicts or disagreements resulted. Therefore it was indeed a very positive experience working with my group mates.
I would say everyone in the group worked well together because everyone was a team player- each completed their assigned tasks on time. I believe it is such cooperation that allowed us to meet our tight deadlines.
On a more individual level, I personally find that the research skills that I had to apply here vary quite a bit from scientific research which I’m more used to. This is so because there are many online Scientific databases with vast collections of journals and scholarly articles, so researching is much easier and more general- only key words are required. However, researching for literature reviews for this report required me to be more specific. Writing this professional report incorporated Maths and Statistics with English language skills, so it was quite a challenge, no doubt enriching. Nonetheless, I believe this would better equip me with report-writing skills when I enter the workforce in future.
A major challenge that I think I might face would be the oral presentation. I feel that I might not be a very good presenter because I tend to get a little too monotonous at times, hence the audience might get bored as a result. Therefore I hope to be able to look out for cues that might indicate that they are bored. Doing so would allow me to try to gain back their attention by engaging them in my presentation. I believe a good presenter is one who is able to get her audience to listen to her actively. Therefore, I hope to have more interaction with the audience.
In past presentations, I’ve always encountered the problem of not knowing what to do with my free hands. As a result I get rather fidgety yet rather stiff at times, and that not only affects my performance but my level of confidence as well. This problem sorts of forms a barrier between me and the audience. Hence, I definitely hope to overcome this problem in the coming oral presentation.
During our first informal meeting, we each took turns to voice out our expectations and agreed on transparency among group members. Transparency among members is very crucial in order for the group to work well together, and we achieved that.
Each of us had different styles of writing, citing and researching etc, but there were no major conflicts due to that. Rather, it was a great learning experience for me because I was exposed to these various styles which I believe would benefit me. It helped that everyone in the group was patient and opened to each others’ ideas, so whenever there were any disagreements, group members were most willing to hear each other out to provide useful insights. Communication among all of us was efficient, and no major conflicts or disagreements resulted. Therefore it was indeed a very positive experience working with my group mates.
I would say everyone in the group worked well together because everyone was a team player- each completed their assigned tasks on time. I believe it is such cooperation that allowed us to meet our tight deadlines.
On a more individual level, I personally find that the research skills that I had to apply here vary quite a bit from scientific research which I’m more used to. This is so because there are many online Scientific databases with vast collections of journals and scholarly articles, so researching is much easier and more general- only key words are required. However, researching for literature reviews for this report required me to be more specific. Writing this professional report incorporated Maths and Statistics with English language skills, so it was quite a challenge, no doubt enriching. Nonetheless, I believe this would better equip me with report-writing skills when I enter the workforce in future.
A major challenge that I think I might face would be the oral presentation. I feel that I might not be a very good presenter because I tend to get a little too monotonous at times, hence the audience might get bored as a result. Therefore I hope to be able to look out for cues that might indicate that they are bored. Doing so would allow me to try to gain back their attention by engaging them in my presentation. I believe a good presenter is one who is able to get her audience to listen to her actively. Therefore, I hope to have more interaction with the audience.
In past presentations, I’ve always encountered the problem of not knowing what to do with my free hands. As a result I get rather fidgety yet rather stiff at times, and that not only affects my performance but my level of confidence as well. This problem sorts of forms a barrier between me and the audience. Hence, I definitely hope to overcome this problem in the coming oral presentation.
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