We have all had the experience of changing our beliefs. Maybe there was someone we knew only a little bit about and didn't have a good opinion of them ("They're stuck up"). But then we had the chance to get to know them better and realized that they were actually really nice. Maybe we thought something was boring or stupid (like reading Hamlet) but then discovered that it was actually kind of interesting. We can use this ability to change our beliefs to shape the way we see ourselves in an academic setting and, thus, help us compose the kind of college career we want.

Think about a time you changed your view about something fairly substantiallyperhaps a performance or a work of art you thought you weren't going to like or, more significantly, a person you thought you might not like. Describe the change and what effect the change in belief had on your behavior. How significant was your belief? After all, the thing or person didn't change. What did?