Team Bell 2009

For some people, life after college is a release of pressure, deadlines and commitments. For others, it is more of a responsibility, an engagement, and/or development either as an individual or through his or her career. I have graduated from University of California, Los Angeles in 2008 and now in 2009 I have increased the onerous responsibility of my finances, growth and development in my career and as an individual by at least double the amount of what it used to be in college.

For some people, life after college is a release of pressure, deadlines and commitments. For others, it is more of a responsibility, an engagement, and/or development either as an individual or through his or her career.

For one to be successful in any respectful position, one will need to have the knowledge, experience and the resources to achieve any task. Resources are widely available through one’s company, school, and/or friends or family. I have been able to create a wide-range of resources throughout my professional career and personal life by actively participating in social roles, getting involved with my community, and volunteering in any opportunity that will benefit both the recipient (the individual or the company) and I.

Although this piece is posted under the first chapter, I would like to change it to go under CHAPTER 15 Career: Friend or Foe. Page 227 between paragraphs two and three. (This is after the second paragraph that ends with "Primarily, it is an inward change," and before the paragraph that starts with "I lost my career one day while weeding my garden....")

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I was thrilled to be attending UCLA in the fall of 2006, not because I was excited for college, but because I was one step closer to becoming a doctor. From my first experiences volunteering in the operation room of Mission Hospital, I could see myself as a surgeon. My later experiences with my mother and her struggle against breast cancer solidified my desire to give people both the care and the knowledge that they need to take control of their health. There was no doubt in my mind that my personality and experiences were perfect for medicine.

Who am I?

My Dad

I entered college and told myself that psychology is my one and only purpose for being at UCLA. Looking back on this I can see that it was a very narrow view of my four years in school. I really did not know much about what it entailed to be a psychologist but the one thing that I did know was that I wanted to help people. I felt like a pebble in the ocean when I stepped onto UCLA, there was so much I did not know and so many unfamiliar and intimidating faces. As many first year students feel, my new environment did not compare to the warm and safe environment I had built back home.

Before debit cards became the norm, people were lucky to have a credit card and typically carried cash or wrote personal checks. I was one of those people, and I liked carrying cash or keeping it stored away, because the more I spent, I would know immediately that I didn't have any money.

Nowadays, with the ability to buy things online or to whip out the debit card, I am spending more than I realize at times because with the new age of technology, I find myself looking only at changing numbers, and it doesn't look like much unless I realize how much I have left throughout the month.

There are many new opportunities to meet people from dating online--just as there are many more dangers. We live in an age where we can find people who match our interests supposedly by tags that we search for on sites dedicated to dating or meeting up, but many times, we are not completely honest with who we portray ourselves online.