Module 5 Journal 1 Essay example

Submitted By yuezhu0205
Words: 375
Pages: 2

Feb. 23 2014

To The Office of First Year Program and Learning Communities:
My name is XXX, currently a junior student who is studying Management Information System at University of Connecticut. As one of the closest friends of CCC Yang, and also one of the international students who heard a lot about CCC’s excellent performance and hard work as a First Year Experience Mentor, I would like to recommend CCC Yang as a candidate for the First Year Experience Mentor Award. In her position as First Year Experience Mentor, CCC served for the program from August 2013 – December 2013.
CCC did an excellent job as a First Year Experience Mentor; first and foremost, she really has a good understanding of leadership: CCC really knew how to provide good services and helps to students who were not familiar with the campus. For example, besides scheduled mentoring time, CCC also gave students additional help with great patience. She usually gave students opportunities to have extra discussions outside the classroom, and also she provided one to one service to help students got familiar with HuskyCT and other UConn featured Technologies.
Moreover, what more valuable is, CCC really displayed the model of UConn students and the spirit of UConn Husky. Hardworking may be the contribution which every mentor loves to give, but CCC was able to provide different mentoring services when she had students who had different backgrounds and personalities. At the beginning, she realized the