Student Reflection on Culture Week Activities

Culture week is my favorite part of school because it's a time to learn about our classmates and facilitators but most importantly ourselves.  This week we have embarked on a mission of discovery that has led me to learn interesting things about my personality.  Two of the activities that I really enjoyed were the Myers Brigg Test and the Compass Points activity.
    
 I have now done the compass point activity twice and each time I discovered something interesting.  The first time that I did this activity was in a Student Advisory Board meeting.  Our facilitators had done this activity before and were excited to see what would happen.  Half of us ended up going to the West poster and the other half was at the East.  It was interesting to see that we are on polar opposites of working style.  My fellow people in the West pay a lot of attention to the fine details, whereas the Easterners look at the big picture.  

     The second time I did this activity, there were new people in the West.  I noticed that checklists and writing everything down is a big deal to them.  It is not so with me.  Although I do look at the fine details and need to know just about everything before I start, I do not have the patience or organization to make out lists.  I think I might be a mix of West and North: a Northwest.  When we met up with some Westerners from another class, I observed that some of their answers were different than mine.  They seemed to be more compassionate and Southernly, where I said that Southerners were hardest to work with.  Then I thought maybe within each direction there are sub-directions: i.e. Northwest and Southwest.   

     I really loathe personality tests, and the one we took last year was brutal.  The Myers Brigg test was not so bad.  I felt the questions were more relevant and easier to answer due to their only being two choices: yes and no.  At the end, my acronym was INTJ which meant nothing to me at first.  After reading into it, I discovered that it is The Mastermind; so basically I'm a genius.  I found out that only 2% of the population is this personality type and only 1% of women are a part of The Mastermind.  From that I concluded that I am pretty rare too.  While reading the description of my personality type, I was completely in awe of how perfectly it described me.  It said I was a perfectionist which is very true.           

    Though others may think these activities are just to pass the time and don't appreciate the information they discovered, I see the value in these activities.  It is always beneficial to gain knowledge about yourself so you can improve yourself.  I am excited to start this new school year having made self discoveries that will use to improve my character.

Blog Contributor: Haley Mills
{WSOI Sophomore, Student Advisor}