Dear Professor Blackstone, I am Keefe, currently a first-year student studying Mechanical Design and Manufacturing Engineering at SIT. I am writing this letter with the hope of providing you with a better understanding of who I am. I graduated from Temasek Polytechnic with a diploma in chemical engineering. Subsequently, I enlisted in the Army, and during my service, I decided to pursue a career in the SAF as an Army Engineer. After several years of dedicated service, I was offered a full-time study award to enhance my educational qualifications. Ultimately, I chose to pursue this degree as I feel that mechanical design and engineering will help me to build a strong foundation and I will be able to branch out to other specializations if required. During my stint in the Army, I was often appointed to give presentations to VIPs, both foreign and local. Though I still have areas for improvement, this drastically helped me develop confidence in my public speaking abilities. A communi...
Starting the module with minimal knowledge of Critical thinking and communication, my goal was to improve both my ability to actively listen and my ability to communicate with others succinctly. Over the course of 13 weeks, I feel that I have achieved these goals that I had set for myself through the ample opportunities in the forms of various assignments tasked to us. Not to mention, by actively engaging with the course materials, participating in discussions, and responding positively to feedback, I was also able to further advance my research skills which helped me extensively with my assignments. During the drafting of the reader response, a key milestone of the module, one of the challenges I faced was crafting an essay on a topic that I had no background knowledge of. This gave me an opportunity to enhance my reading and research skills. Through the use of paraphrasing and critical thinking, I was able to then form my own opinions on the subject and reinforce them with my researc...
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