Blog 2: Summer Mentorship Component

Mentorship

Literal:
1)I have no hours.
2)I do not have a mentor.
3)I realized to never take a summer course when you need senior mentorship experience and hours. It's likely I won't do that for a second time.

Interpretive
4)To learn how to be more time responsible. I've learned to never be to indecisive and to be sure of what you want; to not be on the fence about my choices where there is a due date involved.

Applied:
5) I have no idea what my topic will be about. I've considered to study open heart surgery or to focus on brain cognition. I've considered to focus on politics and have networking opportunities to have new L.A. County Board of Supervisor Hilda Solis as my possible mentor; to focus on how to incorporate effective political changes in the Los Angeles region. I have considered to focus on the psychological and/or spiritual reasons of artists an where creativity comes from. I've thought about studying how the brain works during meditation. For a while I wondered if I wanted to do some sort of a social experiment on how people see the world (specifically experts in their field, i.e. a botanist, a surfer, a student, a parent, a policeman, etc.) from their own point of view. I have considered attempting to figure out if third world countries had public education in its rural areas, would you see a difference over time, how the country would be governed.To be honest, I would really enjoy is to do something that involved humanitarianism but specifically in 3rd word countries. I have looked for programs that offer this opportunity like Peace Corps and UNICEF, but both of those programs only look for college graduates. I have looked into programs for teens related to humanitarianism, such as GLA (Global Leadership Adventures [offers a week or two weeks in a third world country to provide help around winter break]) but I cannot afford their trips. Since the opportunity of going abroad to do hours is not a price I can afford I was unsure if any of the teachers could refer me or know of something similar to what I would like do focus on for my senior project. As a result of my inability to join GLA,  My only fear is that I will end up doing a project that I won't enjoy and suffer from lack of interest in my topic. I feel that my ideas are spread way too thin. I've been extremely lost on what to choose for a senior project. I have no idea where to go from here.