This is what my concept map panned out to be. After running into a road block on new ideas to create for the bubble mapping, I decided to take my concept map to the one place I truly love, the beach! I surrounded the bubble map in what I know the is and I incorporated little bits and pieces of my life in assembling the foundation.
The two pictures are to show what I updated and what the concept map looks like as a whole. This week I focused on fun events that I did this past summer and goals that I have for this semester both academia and personal life related. This past summer I competed in my first obstacle course race and loved it. I did a Battle Frog and Rugged Maniac. Goals that I have set for this semester for academics is to do well in all my classes (survive PChem) and to win the I-Prize competition with my senior design project utilizing the concept of a lateral flow assay. Also, for personal life, I am trying to join the 1000lb club where you combined maxes on bench, squat, and dead lift equal 1000 lbs.
This concept map update focuses what I will do in the future. As I graduate from Lafayette, I do want to take a job utilizing my degree at some point. I also want to have a family in the future and be able to provide for my existing family if need be.
This week for my concept map, I focused on things I like to enjoy. Because I started lifting recently, I enjoy eating a lot of protein. I’ve always enjoyed eating meat, chicken, and fish, but since its still bulky season I have more of an incentive. A guilty pleasure of mine that I enjoy doing frequently is smoking cigars. Something really puts me at piece like a fine cigar on a nice day or a way to end the night. I love Ashton’s and Alec Bradley’s, but nothing is like a fine Cuban cigar. My go to is the Cuban Monte Cristo. Nothing can beat it in my opinion.
So this week for the concept map, I focused on more of what I want to do in the future, specifically traveling. I wrote out areas of the world I want to see like Europe and parts of Asia. Then, I went into specific countries like Italy, France, Austria, Thailand, etc… Finally, I wrote down the cities I want to visit stemming from there respective countries. I pretty much wrote up some of my travels plans that hopefully I will be able to fulfill in the future.
This week for the concept map I added a couple of present tense verbs and a past tense verb. I wanted to focus again stuff that is currently going on in my life right now and stuff that is near and dear to my heart. I enjoy community service and philanthropy related events, so I talked about my experience with helping out the Boys and Girls Club of Easton. I ran a soccer clinic at the Boys and Girls Club of Easton this past fall and has volunteered to help out a previous soccer clinics that occurred at the Boys and Girls club. I talked about the philanthropy related events that I was a part of/am currently doing to raise money for the Boys and Girls Club of Easton. Also, I take about my needs (I promise that I am not needy) and what things I love in life.
dixonm Concept Map Week 2
So for week 2, I started off with what I would want in the foreseeable future. For example, I want to pick up a new hobby/sport because if I do have a hobby/sport in my life. I am more focus and regimented. Also, I talk about what I have done in the past, such as past hobbies. I though this was helpful because it would allow me to gauge what I would potentially want to pick up in the future. For further work on the concept map, I want to focus more on what I can do, which is what I did the previous week., and what I will do hopefully.