Noely Gonzalez
Prof. Jodie Roure
Lls100-48
Date: 9/18/14
HW#: 2b

            "Good writers are excellent readers" Is the first thought that comes to my mind after Doctor Sumaya Villanueva motivational speech. Doctor Villanueva obtains a PhD on Sociology Correlation Social Psychology at the University of Michigan. As Dr. Villanueva spoke about her difficulties finding the major she now pursues and loves, I understood that the hard part is not getting a degree, but finding what to with it. To get a job that matches your values and brings you joy, requires a lot of hard work. Nothing is going to be handed to you in a silver tray. Everything is about having connections and the practical skills that Dr. Villanueva mentions on her speech. Skills like verbal, written, physical (gestures), and interpersonal communication, critical thinking, and listening. In my perspective a very important skill which many people take for granted is the listening skill, because listening sounds as such as an easy task that many people ignore it.  But the problem is that a lot of people make the assumption that listening and hearing are define the same way, but they are completely different terms. Hearing is defined in a dictionary as " the sense through which a person or animal is aware of sound or the ability to hear" while listening is defined as "to make an effort to hear something or to pay attention". The point I am trying to articulate is that many people do not listen, they just hear. To have a bright future as students, or just as any human being we need to learn how to develop good listening skills, and appreciate those skill because they are important.

Another main point in Dr. Villanueva speech was the fact that is normal to switch majors or careers, not everyone has a define overview of what they want to do in the future, and the few that do, most of the time change their major or career after having fully understand the duties include in the determine career or major. Dr. Villanueva went thought that experience and 75% of all entering freshman as well. Each person may find what they really like differently. A few would find the career they like right away, for other it would take a longer time, and many tries. Doctor Sumaya Villanueva uses her life experience as an example to express the idea that is fine to change majors. She started pursuing a major on public relation, but what she imagined the career duties were and the reality were completely different. By her brothers advice, she started a major on marketing and accounting, because is a career that generates a vast amount of profit. She began this major but she realizes with all the hard work she put into study, she was not enjoying the major and her hard work did not reflect in her grades. But while pursuing this career, she realizes she enjoyed her sociology class. Dr. Villanueva stop with the major on accounting and she graduated with a B.A on sociology from the University of Wisconsin Madison. Then how stated before, she got a PhD on sociology. And again "Good writers are excellent readers."