Penn State Reflection

I believe my experience would reflect me positively to succeed at Penn State. One of the apparent characteristics of Penn State University is its cultural and educational diversity. Through my experience, I have learned how to embrace individual’s cultural and educational differences. My experience helped me to break the stereotypes, all the closed thoughts and minds. I cannot know every single detail of somebody else even if I am very intimate with the person. I became less judgemental and more accepting. I used to think exclusively and biasedly. If someone offered an idea different from what I thought, I would question, put that person into a corner and expressed blame. After I went through adversities and turning points, I could open my

So, we became best friends, went to school together and always spent time together. We shared every story even if it was sad, happy or embarrassing. One day, she approached to me and hesitated. She didn’t look as she normally did. She was nervous. I asked what happened and her voice was shivering. She was sexually harassed by a man who was one of the members of a family she lived with. He gave a sleeping pill to her and tried to rape her. Luckily, she got up and did not get harmed. After then, she had not taken any action because she did not want to cause disruption. I felt so sorry for her and I was so sad that my best friend was suffering all the burdens by herself. On the one hand, I was thankful to her that she told me what happened, and I knew how hard that would be. I convinced her we had to talk about this with someone who could help. Finally, she made her decision to talk to an adult, and she got out of the house and felt safe. I could see this was very hard emotionally. All I could do was to listen to her, saying everything will be fine and that it was not her fault. I said to her “these hardships will pass, and you will learn and grow up whether it is bad or