This document is Queenie Marquez's professional portfolio for her final in Advanced General Psychology at Argosy University. [1] She discusses her experience at Argosy, noting that it has been challenging but has allowed her to gain knowledge and build relationships that will help her career. [2] She identifies her strengths as her social skills and fortitude, and weaknesses as struggles balancing work, school, family and health issues, as well as a lack of organization. [3] She is proud of her education and sees herself as a lifelong learner who can continue gaining knowledge outside the classroom.

1. Queenie Marquez
Professional Portfolio- Final
Advanced General Psychology PSY 492
Argosy University
August 21, 2010

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I can confidently say that my experience at Argosy has been a fun, challenging,
enlightening, and strengthening practice to my academic success. I have attained a
broader scope of knowledge in the psychology field, set and met goals, defied struggles,
and encountered professional relationships that will allow me to further my education. I
am proud of what I have accomplished thus far, and am very excited to cultivate the next
steps of a professional career in psychology.
Some of strengths that have allowed me to reach where I am today are my social
skills. I have always had a passion for people, and the use of that enthusiasm has allowed
me to create and infuse relationships that I have built during my experience at Argosy. I
am very grateful for the people I have met and gotten to know. I have been lucky enough
to work with professors, educators, Argosy staff, and especially my classmates, in
meeting certain goals and providing support and encouragement for one another.
Working and going to school at the same time can be very stressful, and having that
support system in our school environment made a lot of the challenges bearable.
Another strength that I have been able to implement in my academic work at
Argosy is fortitude. We studied many different cases, reviewed events that are relevant
to psychology, encountered vast amounts of theories, and examined the works of people
who have significantly contributed to this field. I have been so eager to attain a degree in
psychology that it can be easy to forget all the things we experience and come across that
provide us with an even more fulfilling voyage.
Along with these strengths, my weaknesses were evident as well. Like I
mentioned earlier, working and going to school at the same time is no easy fete. Being

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able to balance both, along with family and a social life, is very critical. Unfortunately I
have been battling with a health concern for almost two years, and that created most
challenges to be even more intolerable. I failed a lot at finding that balance. Throughout
the academic school year, I found that I had to prioritize many elements in my life in
order to meet certain needs. I have no regrets of the choices I have made, but I do reflect
on the reasons why I had to make them. Sometimes this resulted in missing a deadline,
skipping a chapter, failing at discussing certain terms and theories with my peers, and
lack of validity in my work.
Another weakness in my educational performance is organization. Each course at
Argosy is about 7 weeks long. There is so much information to review in such a small
amount of time. Organization under these circumstances proves to be very important. I
believe that organization would allow me to retain the large amount of information in a
more concise and effective manner. I was worried about falling too far behind if I
stopped to organize notes, articles, outlines, theories, progressions, and case studies. I
figured the information is accessible to me, and if I needed it I can just go back to it.
Now, I know that being more proficient can allow my learning to be more effective and
resourceful.
I already consider myself a lifelong learner. Argosy has taught me that you don’t
necessarily have to be a student to learn. We can learn just as well from our peers,
experiences, challenges, disappointments, failures, determination, and commitment to
knowledge. I may not be the most studious person, but I do thrive in what I seek to

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understand. I am most proud of the realization towards my education that you do not
have to be in a classroom to be a life long learner. Being able to apply certain
fundamentals and theories to the field of psychology will allow me to expand and
heighten my knowledge in itself.