Who are you?

       Hey everyone, hope classes went well for everybody and everyone is keeping up on homework. Well this week in class we did the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, otherwise known as MBTI. In this survey it ask you a bunch of questions and from how you answer them it gives results telling about your personality. Although most of us have already done one of these, this one was step II which means it was the super cool one and was more in depth. Instead of just having your results come back in 4 different areas, now within each of the 4 areas was five more things per area. This meant for a more accurate reading of our personality. As we went through the report in class and got to see where everybody else was, I thought it was really cool not only because you learn a lot about every ones personality if you don't know them, but you also learn a lot about yourself and I think the focus was to learn more about yourself. Because if you don't know yourself and who you are, then how can you help others?
       Now my results say I'm a ESTP (Extraversion, Sensing, Thinking, Perceiving), in the main summary it says and I quote "ESTP's try to make life fun and often enjoy material possessions as well as physical activity. Their attitude is that life is to be lived, not analyzed in depth, and thus they are not ones to sit still. They focus on the here and now" end quote. When I read that, I thought that was hitting my personality right on the head which is really cool. Along with other things it goes on to say I'm gregarious (pronounced greg-a-rous, just in cause everyone was wondering), enthusiastic, traditional, concrete, tough, spontaneous, casual, and others.  I thought this was a really cool thing and can be used to help us better understand ourselves and how we can best help others in the future. Well that's all for now, hope everyone has a good week.

Cory out

The Road to Success

Hey everyone,
     In this weeks blog I'll be talking about how to help your mentees make the transition into college a little easier. While reading this section I felt like a lot of what the reading was talking about, was also talking about how my first year went. One part of the reading that really stuck out in my mind was about the students situations it talked about. One was about a girl who played sports in high school and got a scholarship. When she went to college, here grades started to slip because in high school she always had someone on top of her making sure she had her homework etc done and she is having a hard time balancing her social life with her school life. I feel like this kind of applied to me because in high I always had my mom asking me about homework after I would get home from sports. Also our teachers were very considerate with our problem about being in sport. When I came to college, I had to make sure I was spending enough time studying and not on my social life and making sure I was getting my homework done on time.
     In the reading it also talked about how high school is different from college. To most of us that pretty much is a no brainer, but as a freshmen I can remember coming here all star-eyed and scared like a spooked bunny, not sure what to expect. Luckily for me, I was living with a hometown friend who was a senior and who was also a Hixson scholar. He really kind of took me under his wing and guided me and really helped me succeed my first year. He taught me good study methods that worked well for him and also was there to help me on other problems I had.
      During class when we were lead by our classmates, we talked a little about the Schlossberg Transition Theory. We also read about it it the reading. It talks about the 4 S's, Situation, Self, Support, and Strategies. As a mentor we can try to understand each students individual situation and offer our support and strategies to over come it, but we need to realize that even though me may "understand" we will never truly understand.
     When I become a mentor I hope I am able to do the best I can to help my students overcome their problem and hopefully take them under my wing and guide them has I was guided. Thanks for reading, Cory out.
 (the last part is now my sign off cause I thought it would be kind of cool haha)

The Journey to Becoming a Mentor

What does it mean to be a mentor? What separates a mentor from a friend or tutor? While reading the first chapter of the Peer Mentor book I learned the difference between these two and many other things. The journey to becoming a mentor is not a short easy one, you have to be dedicated, hardworking, and willing to be able to change things about yourself that may not be the best. While reading the book I read that the first step to becoming a mentor is finding yourself and your strengths and weaknesses. Once you have identified this you can better prepare yourself to becoming a mentor by imporving your weaknesses. I also learned that when your a mentor you need to be able to find a happy medium of keeping your realationship not to formal and not to friendly. You do this so your trusted yet also respected. That way it helps you to be effective when helping your student or students
   While in class we also discussed a little more about what it takes to become a mentor and the amount of effort you need to put in. When I got the syllabus I was a little surprised, I didnt realize that the amount of work we needed to put in was gonna be this big, but I am willing to take on the work load with a positive attitude and ready to become the best mentor I can be!