I feel that I have grown tremendously through my last four years of college and since my high school years as well. I feel that academically, I have matured in ways that have helped me to become the student that I am today. I have learned so many things throughout my college years, not just about occupational therapy, but I have learned how to study and I have learned how to successfully write good papers and achieve success academically. Looking back, it is amazing to see how my style has changed since freshman year. I can see that through the change has also come confidence. Confidence in my ability to succeed in college, and confidence to achieve the goals that I place upon myself. Change is important for all growth, and, I can see the change in my personality, in my grades, and in my academic commitments. I can look back and see how much I have matured since those early days of college; I can see how then I was just going with the flow. I put things off until the end, and it was evident in the work I was producing. Today, I expect better from myself. I have learned that procrastination is not an option for me anymore. I work on things before they are due, and make sure that they are to the best of my ability before I turn them in. My achievements reflect my dedication, and my dedication reflects my growth. I feel as if I have started from the bottom, and I will continue to work my way up.

I have included in my academic growth section, a timeline of my growth.

I felt that I should include a copy of my entire college transcript because itshows that I was pretty much a C/B student in the beginning of my college career. I always attended classes, but got away with what I could without pushing myself too hard, which results in the grades I received. Looking at my senior year of college grade report, the change in the grades is noticeable and hard-earned. To see that I have worked my way up from a C student to an A/B student is one of the things that I am most proud of in my accomplishments. To work my way up from a 2.88 GPA at the end of my freshman year to a current GPA of  3.493 makes me feel so good about the work I have performed and all that I have accomplished in my five years of school.

In ADL performance class, we were required to come up with treatment plans for case study patients. This was something that, until this point, I had never done before, and I was nervous. Not only did I have to think of things that I could do to help and rehabilitate this person, but I had to back it up with evidence and facts. I spent a lot of time researching for this treatment plan, because I knew that this is going to be the kind of thing that I may have to do on a regular basis in the future, I knew I should learn all I could about this. I looked in many of our OT books and in the library for ideas, and came up with some on my own. While reading through some of the books, I read on about other disorders or problems that may occur and learned more than was required! I learned that you really need to cover all bases with treatment plans, you need to decipher all of the special considerations, and decide what is truly important not only for the success of the patient, but also for what the patient would like to do themselves. I am really glad that we could do treatment plans in class because I do feel that this is something that I will look back on and learn from in the future.