A new beginning, new classes, and new goals. Since this is senior year - which I still can't believe; it feels like yesterday that I started high school- goal setting is imperative to success. Goal setting allows you to see what you have to accomplish and work on in order to be successful and reach your dreams. It allows your dreams and aspirations to be more attainable by outlining your steps to reach your destination. This year, I want to maintain my GPA, which will be a challenge since I am taking ECE Calculus. For my career goals, I want to get into a good university and major in biomedical engineering or bio-engineering that will prepare me for either a master's degree or for medical school. Personally, I want to be more productive and optimistic. The lack of both of these things last year really hindered my mental health last year and led to an increase of stress and anxiety for me. Since this is my last year of high school, I want this to be the best year it can possibly be, and I can't do that if I am stressed out. Even though I know that I will stress about college applications, I want to try to limit all other sources of stress. Last year, I would feel unmotivated and procrastinate. This led to an increase of stress, and led me to have a pessimistic attitude at times. I want to try to be more optimistic and productive to improve my mental health and allow me to be the best version of myself that I can possibly be.
As I mentioned before, I have not one, but three mentors. Dr. Kanchan Sonkar is helping me with the experimental part and the paper, Dr. Balaji Krishnamachary is helping me with my paper, and Dr. Kristine Glunde is the head of the lab. I needed a mentor to review my paper and help me with the experimental part. I would ask for help on running the experiment and reviewing my paper. One critical skill I want to work on this month is being flexible. I feel like last year I set unrealistic deadlines for myself on my assignments and when I received extra work from my other classes, I was unable to stick to my deadlines and would stress out. By being more flexible and rolling with the punches, I hope to improve my resolve and mental health. The next 2-3 major tasks I need to complete for my capstone project is:
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