Before you come to the class meeting, create a post that summarizes the following information that will serve as a brief introduction to your instructor and your classmates:

Your personal demographic and psychographic profile. Briefly assess any demographic, psychographic, and$/$or personal factors or characteristics that you believe are important in explaining your decision to return to graduate school and your attitudes and behaviors related to your graduate education.

Your personal environmental analysis, pertaining to the impact of your environment on your graduate studies. This succinct analysis will include the following information:

Your own personal macro and micro environmental influences that impacted your decision to return to graduate school. $($Note: Your personal environment could include, but is not limited to$,$ your family setting, your home environment, your community and neighborhood, your workplace, your region of the country, etc.$)$

Your own personal SWOT analysis as it relates to your ability to successfully complete your graduate studies.