The music is playing and I am behind the curtain, my stomach begins to flutter with excitement, but I welcome the nerves as old friends. I have spent months practicing and know there is a full audience waiting for the show to begin. The fear of forgetting or making a mistake looms over me, but I have learned that it is okay to be nervous as long as I trust in myself and have the confidence to shine. Dancing for the majority of my life has taught me many important and applicable life skills. It taught me discipline not only over my body movements but also my mind performing Grand jeté or a Pirouette. As I got older I realized there was not much difference in learning a dance or studying for a test both involve practice and repetition. …show more content…
Our sorority and our sisters work tirelessly to promote confidence not just in our sisters, but all those around us. As a child I was bullied about my physical appearance and at times often lacked confidence as I feel most women do at some point or another. I always felt the need to cover my face with makeup to hide my flaws. Because I understand what it is like to have confidence stripped I can relate to those people seeking the help of a medical professional to alleviate those problems. After becoming a Kappa Delta I found confidence within myself to be a leader for my chapter and a role model from young girls, and I knew I wanted to continue that work in the field I already loved so much, medicine. During my time in the chapter the most rewarding position I held was Vice President of Community Service. My role was to plan events to raise funds and awareness for our philanthropies Preventing Child Abuse America and the Muscular Dystrophy clinic at Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU. I started my chapter’s event; Kappadillas where we combined our historic philanthropy of the Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU with Kappa Alpha Order’s philanthropy Muscular Dystrophy. We worked together as a team of two organizations we were able to support a children’s hospital by raising not only money, but awareness on our campus while also making delicious quesadillas. Our event was very successful and has …show more content…
During this time, I worked with local troop to teach them about STEM fields and confidence in themselves. As a previous girl scout, this was particularly special for me to work with these young girls. By being a Kappa Delta I gained the confidence that when I was their age I lacked, but after spending time with our chapter I know these young women will make an impact on our world. My favorite girl scout event I planned was international girls day in which there was a station where the girl scouts got to dress up as what they want to be when they grow up. It was so touching to see how many young girls wanted to be involved in STEM fields because that’s what the Kappa Delta’s were involved in. As a medical professional I want to not only heal their body but also their confidence. I will do this by caring about them as a person not just a patient. I want to be a role model not just for my younger patients but all my patient. An inspiration to treat others the way you would want to be treated. Being able to enter medical school and become a plastic surgeon would mean I am closer to my dream of not only healing people but also healing their confidence in themselves. This is important to me because I understand what it means to lack confidence and if I can give confidence to even a small number of people I will know I
Jeannette’s timid nature is a shared characteristic that we both share. This was evident through her reluctance to take off her dress while she was at the community pool with her classmate, Dinitia and other women. She was self-conscious about her body and the scar that was on her ribs as a result from an accident she had at three years old cooking hot dogs. After a few moments of encouraging herself, she was able to take off her dress and put on a bathing suit. Like Jeannette, I have struggled with shyness when it comes to body image. I started puberty at eight years old, and the children I went to school with, were relentless in teasing me about having to wear a bra. This caused my self-esteem to plummet and lead me to bind my chest with tape
... tutoring, advising, and volunteer opportunities, I have developed a strong sense of leadership, confidence, and responsibility. A career in medicine will not only strengthen such attributes, but provide me with an ongoing opportunity to learn, not just from books, but also from patients; and to educate and serve those individuals as well. Though my journey began under dismal circumstances, I believe those experiences will specifically enable me to better understand quality of life issues in the under-served populations of my geographic region.
As a student that is currently seeking a career in the medical professions, I have had to routinely contemplate my reasons for pursuing such an extensive education program in a field that is constantly demanding excessive time and effort. I know of students—many friends and acquaintances of mine included—that have the most sure-fire, inspirational stories that align with their desire to become doctors, surgeons, physician assistants, etc. They always seemed to have a story that emphasized their desire to “give back” what they have received from the medical community. Because of that, ever since the beginning of high school, I have been trying to find an extraordinary reason, a purpose for my medical pursuits. Perhaps I could justify my passion for
My favorite service project was my silver award for girl scouts. Before Jamie Lince, Faith Brown, and I did the silver award the hoophouse by the elementary school was very rundown. There were holes in the plastic, weeds in the beds, and the wood chips in the aisles were worn down. The hoophouse couldn’t be used. We wanted to fix that problem. First we applied for grants. I never knew how many steps or how much time this would take. It really taught me how to handle deadlines so things get turned in on time. It also taught me that there are people that want to support you, and you just need to find them. The two grants that we received were a Lowes grant for fifteen-hundred dollars and a seed grant from Van Atta’s. The second step was to get people to help weed out the beds so we could plant the seeds we got from the grant. This took a few hours and a lot of people from the community showed up to help. The Lowes grant was used for the plastic that goes on the outside of the hoophouse and new wood chips for the aisles in the hoophouse. We had to have the help of Mr. Montry who makes hoop house...
Entering high school with little knowledge of seemed impossible to reach the level of National Honor Society but I set my mind the right way, move from regular classes to Advance Placement classes had lots of sleepless nights but I came out successful in the end, to reach my dreams of becoming a member of the National Honor Society and make them a reality. By reaching the National Honor Society I can show my family how strong I am, that I will be someone successful in the future. The best part of achieving the requirements for the National Honor Society was to accomplish the amount of community service hours. I attended the Relay For Life event, an American Cancer Society, on the behalf of the Amnesty International Laredo Branch. I experienced
I have been given several opportunities to teach these skills to younger girls, including organizing the San Francisco Girl Scout Skills Camporee training, where we trained Girl Scouts of all ages for the annual Skills Camporee. For multiple years in a row, girls in my troop and I organized and designed the training activities for this event. Events like this have improved my leadership abilities and inspired me to continue learning as a Girl Scout. Of all of the amazing experiences that I have gotten from Girl Scouts, the most important to me has been the opportunities to meet hundreds of other inspired young women and help them enrich their own lives through Girl Scout programs. Through my troop, I was connected with DWEN, Dell Women’s Entrepreneurship Network.
At UPITT, I know I will be able to continue my involvement with community service through collaboration with the Student Civic Engagement Council and UPITT community partners such as the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. After graduation, I plan to continue into the field of medicine where I am hopeful that I can help improve the lives of many
Without this experience I would have still been on the fence with whether medicine was actually my passion. Attending medical school and becoming a doctor will not only be an amazing experience for me, but also the patients I will have. I am extremely passionate about doing anything I can to go above and beyond and get everyone the help and resources they need. By becoming a doctor, I will be able to fulfill this passion of mine each and every day I
During my first year of college, I engaged myself to be a part of the hospital setting: I started volunteer at UWMC since January 2017 as an escort volunteer. I dedicate my passion in my work, throughout months, I was able to earn permission from the hospital faculty to become a volunteer of the postpartum/ labor and delivery unit. In additional, I'm also honored to become a UWMC observer to shadow medical staff. I'm planning on running for the position of escort volunteer team leader next year, to encourage more students who are interested in medical sciences join our community to discover more and also to give back to the
While many people think that cosmetic surgery can help them to reach the flawless beauty, it may be true that their actual inner illnesses or lack of confidence in themselves is still not
In the future, I wish to obtain an occupation in the medical field. I would like to start out by working for a Biology major and working in a premedical field in college where I can use my interest in medicine and my curiosity for knowledge to gain insight that would be needed to become a helpful doctor in the medical field. As I move along in my career, I would like to work my way through the pathway so that I can expand my skills in healing others, such as diagnostic abilities, effectively giving treatment and so on. I want to learn as much as possible so I can fulfill my ultimate dream of helping others that need answers to their medical problems and so that more people can live happily and healthily in the world. I hope to bring happiness to others and allowing people to live comfortably.
I have been in Girl Scouts for 6 years and I've never been more thankful for the amazing group I can call my family and all the skills I've learned. Ranging from business skills to learning how to take action in my community with my Gold Award I'm currently working on. My family, friends, and success is what's truly important to me. I want nothing more than for the ones I care about and my happiness. Happiness fro came comes from success and seeing smiles on everyone's face.
“To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.” –Simone De Beauvoir. In today’s world, we are constantly being pressured to be a certain way, maintain a certain look, be a certain weight etc. and all these contribute to maintaining a “perfect image” in the society. We are living in a society where constant boundaries are being laid upon us and most of the times the people who get affected are in the spotlight as most of the people around focus on them.
Besides academics, fine arts and sports in school, I have attained leading roles in different groups. This year, I am the Spirit Leader of Student Council encouraging monthly goals and themes and assisting in school events. From creating a student council with a group of peers three years ago we have had success in many events and have found new ways to spread spirit, gather important information and assist with financial groups. Recently, I stepped up to be the leader of the fundraising committee for our ...
I would attend the school pep rallies, football games, join the school powerlifting club, and school dances like Homecoming and Prom. Although these annual school events were fun and memorable, volunteering for community service hours holds a special relationship with me. It helped me realize my passion for helping people in a socially and physical way. This passion accompanied with my hobby of exercising led me to pursue the career of a physical therapist. In general, the experiences and lessons that I’ve adopted in American Canyon High School was truly life changing, and I’m grateful for it everyday.