Exploring Your Interest and Building up Your Soft Skills
Exploring Your Interest and Building up Your Soft Skills
Chu Sin Yee Jasmine’s Story
Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
BNurs
“Everyone had different approaches in addressing the same problems,” and this allowed the team to come up with comprehensive and effective solutions.
As a camp tutor, she had to work alongside nine other student helpers in designing and executing lesson plans, as well as drafting proposals. Although other students like Jasmine who agreed to spend their holidays being English tutors belonged to different faculties, Jasmine said that was what exactly made the whole experience so worthwhile as, “everyone had different approaches (in addressing) the same problems,” and this allowed the team to come up with comprehensive and effective solutions.
“University is a place for you to explore your ability—always diversify and try something different from what you are majoring in.”
As a nursing student, Jasmine had no prior knowledge in writing lesson plans, coming up with class content, let alone teaching kids. However, with supportive staff and teammates, she said that she got to take away the importance of “teamwork.” She asserted that, although being a camp tutor isn’t the same as being a nurse, the soft skills she picked up were something she could definitely foresee herself applying in her future career, including “being detail-oriented, patient and flexible.”
Written by:
Bibi Alysha
Year 2, Faculty of Social Sciences
January 2022