Courtney Mobbs is a dental hygiene major who is strong-willed, self-motivated, and caring. She enjoyed assignments that allowed her to learn about campus resources, help others through service, and reflect on how to improve her studying. Her favorite journals helped her manage stress, use time wisely, and reaffirm her values. In module 7, a video on memory and learning most helped her exam preparation. Her goals are to earn a dental hygiene degree, work as a hygienist, and be a successful mom, and her dreams include providing dental care on mission trips, visiting every state, family trips to Disney and Switzerland.

1. Courtney Mobbs
Major: Dental Hygiene
Personal Affirmation: I am a strong-willed, self-motivated,
caring woman, and I will achieve my goals, finding happiness
every step of the way.

2. Scavenger Hunt: I enjoyed this assignment because I found thing that Grayson offered that
I otherwise wouldn’t have known existed. By doing this assignment I found out times and
locations of services, should I ever need them. Now that I now where these services are, I
can tell my friends and family how to utilize them, even if I never do.
• Service Learning Project: I loved doing
this assignment for a couple of reasons.
One, because I love helping people. I have
been meaning to find way to give back, but
couldn’t find time to do it (or just kept
coming up with excuses?). Second, after
doing the written assignment and
reflecting on how much I enjoyed it, it has
inspired me to move on to another Service
Project.
• How People Learn (Discussion): I liked
watching this video as it has helped me
realize why I wasn’t retaining some of the
material in my other courses. I also liked
that it was a discussion board. For me,
reading how other people learn has given
me even more ideas and tips to
adequately study and prepare for exams
and to retain information beyond the
courses.

3. Favorite Journals:
• Journal Entry 8: I enjoyed this journal because it allowed me to physically write
down what I was stressed about. I was able to write how I felt during that time
and then I learned how I could have avoided that stress all together by just asking
a simple question. This assignment has taught me how to avoid this same kind of
stress in my future semesters and other personal situations outside of school.
• Journal Entry 13: I loved this journal because it has helped in a couple of ways. By
writing down the 15 actions that I did in two days, I was able to see where and
how I spending my time. It allowed me to visually see where I needed to spend
more time and how I could wisely make the best of my time.
• Journal Entry 28: In this journal I was able to talk about one of my personal
values as a person. It reminded me that even when my limits are tested, I can stay
calm and do the right thing. This journal proved to me that my values are
important to keep and that it pays to be nice!

4. Favorite Module: #7
Adopting Lifelong Learning, Problem Solving and Memory and
Information Processing:
The video that “Putting the Principle into Practice” by Dr. Chew was the video that
helped me personally the most. Not only did Dr. Chew help me, reading my classmates
posts helped me and gave me tips on how to better prepare for an exam. The blog
reflection reinforced how I should learn from the start to better retain information
that I though I already knew the answer to.

5. Favorite Lessons
• Lesson #1-Mastering Self-Management
• Lesson #2- Goal Setting Assignment
• Journal Entry 23
• I will use all three of these as I continue my journey as a student and in my
personal life!

6. Before Scores:
68 1. Accepting personal responsibility
77 2. Discovering self-motivation
58 3. Mastering self-management
54 4. Employing interdependence
63 5. Gaining self-awareness
55 6. Adopting lifelong learning
57 7. Developing emotional intelligence
42 8. Believing in myself
• Looking back at my scores, I have grown in most of
the areas which made me more proud of myself. It
also reflected in my other courses as well.
However, I was surprised that there were a few
areas that I made a significantly lower score on.
Such as: Mastering Self-management, Employing
interdependence, and Developing emotional
intelligence. At first I was a little disappointed in
these score, but I thought to myself “maybe the
second time around I was being more honest with
myself?”. Either way, I plan to still work on these
areas as I believe that they can help me succeed in
life and school.
After Scores:
77 1. Accepting personal responsibility.
78 2. Discovering self-motivation.
40 3. Mastering self-management.
42 4. Employing interdependence.
66 5. Gaining self-awareness.
59 6. Adopting lifelong learning.
55 7. Developing emotional intelligence.
63 8. Believing in myself.

7. Goals
• Bachelor’s Degree in Dental
Hygiene
• Working as a Dental Hygienist
• Being a successful mom!

8. Dreams
• Travel with mission groups to
help those in need of dental care
and to help those in need here
in our community.
• Travel to every state
• Take Elaina to Disney World
• Travel to Switzerland with my
husband