Reflecting on Life Experiences: A Journey of Personal Development

This essay provides a reflective analysis of a student's life experiences and their impact on personal and professional development. The student details their journey from having limited societal awareness to pursuing a STEM career, focusing on math and computer science to contribute to society through artificial intelligence and robotics. The essay highlights the student's commitment to learning through online courses in coding, data science, and database languages, as well as their tutoring experiences in math, where they customized teaching methods to help peers. The student also reflects on their volunteering experiences, including working with special needs children and at a hospital, emphasizing how these experiences fostered compassion, generosity, and a deeper understanding of human needs, ultimately shaping them into a more empathetic and well-rounded individual. The essay underscores the importance of these experiences in fostering personal growth and a commitment to helping others, which aligns with their career aspirations in STEM.

Running head: REFLECTION ON LIFE EXPERIENCES
Reflection on Life experiences
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

1REFLECTION ON LIFE EXPERIENCES
The life experiences of an individual aids in the growth and development of the person
through his course of life. Such experiences are developed as a result of the various activities that
occur within the life of such individuals. This essay is a reflective essay which tries to
understand how the different life experiences of mine aided me to become a better person in life.
Initially, during my early days of life, I had little knowledge of the needs of the society.
However, with the advancement in life, I decided to follow the career path of STEM whereby I
learnt about the importance of math and computer science. The knowledge in these two fields
made me aware that I could certain significant contributions to the human society with such use
of artificial technology by developing smart appliances robotics.
In order to pursue my objective, I undertook certain online classes in coding of data, data
science, SQL, python and java. I also started to give tuitions in math and helped any of my
school peers who were in need of my help in these two respective fields of study.
The knowledge attained from the learning of all the subjects related to the field of science
and math and the support which was provided to the people who struggled with them, helped me
to a great extent to understand how to better utilize the information provided. In this sense, I
undertook new and customized ways to teach calculus, trigonometry and geometry to the people.
One of my friends in math class struggled with the understanding of this subject. As a
consequence, I stayed with him for an hour every day, diligently teaching him how to proceed
with the subject by explaining to him in lucid language about the different mathematical
formulae and concepts. All the sessions that I undertook with him helped him to improve his
grade in class. This experience made him happy and he was thrilled with the outcome of all the
hard work put in by us to achieve his goals of a better grade.

2REFLECTION ON LIFE EXPERIENCES
In the 11th grade, I started to volunteer at a place known as “Give Kids the world”. This
organization was established for the special kids who needed assistance in their education. They
were essential confined to their wheel chairs, or were blind or deaf. I volunteered at the place for
two days a week for many number of months. My responsibility was to meet the kids there of
age four to sixteen years, help them in whatever field they desired so and in essence, keep them
happy and satisfied. My services included that of providing them train rides, manned rides, aid
them to climb the ramp and accompany them on such rides to ensure that they do not end up
hurting themselves. I also took them to the food parlors to get them ice cream.
Another place where I volunteered at was at Doctor P. Philips Hospital in Ontario. I was
required to work at the desk, greet the patients and direct them to their destinations. I also
delivered the gifts and flowers to the patients. I volunteered here for two summers.
For all of my life experiences, I am quite grateful as it enabled me to improve my
personality. I understood the importance of compassion and generosity. I liked seeing people be
happy because of me, knowing that I had the power in me to help others. Such experiences
definitely helped me to become a better version of myself by introspecting deep in to the main
requirements of the human civilization.