Today, January 4, 2018, is my first day at the Hawaii University Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education Conference. I gave my presentation in the first session of the day. In my session there were two other professors from California and Canada presenting. They had extremely interesting research on topics such as trauma and abuse victims and dogs being sources of good therapy and motivation. Giving my presentation was a great new experience, from which I learnt a lot. Before giving my presentation, I had to learn how to reconstruct and shorten my paper so that I could present it within the time, and still make my argument strong and compelling. Practicing how to annunciate and read clearly, were skills that I further refined through preparing for this speech. Today when I gave my speech I learned how to be professional when presenting and putting my nerves aside, as well as answering questions in depth and intellectually. This experience with presenting my own research taught me how to be professional and interact in a professional setting with other professionals. I had the pleasure after giving my presentation to two pprofessors from California, who were impressed by my research and even offered to help me with future endeavors with law school. After my session I had the pleasure of attending another session, in which my professor, Dr. McLaren, was presenting. The session focused on gender issues, and there were presentations on sexual assault in college and the stereotypes of yoga and its effects of women. I was able to learn so much throughout the sessions from many different disciplines. So far this experience has allowed me to grow as an intellectual and professional, which is important since I have graduated college and will be immersing myself in many professional experiences.