My experience as the service chair encouraged me to try out for another position for the upcoming semester. This time with the goal of encouraging diversity and growth of our members. I created the Deserving Darlin Scholarship, which would be awarded to one member who excelled all of the standards of a Texas Darlin. Alone, I was able to facilitate, organize, and raise over $500 for the scholarship. After months of planning and reading scholarship applications, I was finally able to award the scholarship. At that moment I felt that same adrenaline as I did when I received the student council announcement. Except this time, I felt that I had accomplished my long held dream, to grow as a leader and positively impact those around me, something
During 2017, the fall of my senior year, we held elections for National Honor Society President. I was one of the members selected and later got elected into the position. This position has taught me the importance of quality leadership in order for the success of a program along with how to prioritize my time and stay organized while helping to engage members to enable them to be the best people they can be. Throughout my months as president, I have contributed experience, advice, and leadership alongside hours and hours of time put into an array of projects benefiting both the school and the community as a whole. Experiencing this event which has influenced both my leadership and service to my community has influenced my future plans through
When candidates are competing for an award, a job, or an honor, they often use the qualities of their character as evidence as to why they deserve it. I certainly understand and believe in the necessity of qualifications; however, I have also always believed that having a plan of what one will do with a certain honor is an integral part of deserving it. That is why this essay is not about my previous accomplishments. This essay is a declaration of my ideas to serve as a representative of Seton Hill University by making the community, state, and country a better place for all.
It’s incredibly crazy to compare my life this year to where I was three-hundred and sixty-five days ago. As a senior in high school, I was so worried about the future and if I would survive, so to speak. Here I am now, experiencing college and gaining a valuable education in more than just a survival mode, but in a completely growth oriented mode of thriving. Campus involvement has been the best encourager for my education outside of your typical classroom setting. My main involvement is with Georgia Southern’s Office of Leadership and Community Engagement. I currently live in a Living Learning community on campus called Lead and Serve. This community is run through the Leadership Office which we call OLACE. I am housed with like minded individuals who have a passion for growing their leadership and doing community service. We have weekly meetings where we discuss social issues and prepare events for the local Statesboro community to get involved in and for us to serve. I am also invovled in an organization called Southern Leaders. Upon completion of this course and club, I will graduate with a leadership seal upon my diploma. Since being on my beautiful campus in south Georgia, I have completed over one hundred hours of community service. OLACE has also provided me the opportunity to take non-credit leadership classes in Self-Leadership, Collaborative Leadership, Living the Change and other various leadership classes I have taken advantage of. I have gained the knowledge of my leadership style and abilities and how to best use those when leading others. This week, I will “graduate” from one of my leadership classes with an extreme honor: an engraved Georgia Southern gold name tag. Having a gold name tag on campus is one of the...
It was during my second year of high school that I first heard of the Pruitt Memorial Scholarship. I suddenly felt hope for my future. Hope that I would be able to attend college, and hope that I would be given the chance to fight for my very large dreams. My passion is theatre and my goal is that someday I will be able to teach others about my passion and spread the magic of theatre around the world, but to be able to do that requires lots of education. The Pruitt Memorial Scholarship opened the door for me to pursue this dream. Now, I just had to acquire the scholarship, and that meant performing volunteer community-service.
Going on this trip would be a very cool experience and I would be extremely thankful if I got this scholarship. My mom always talks about what cool things I may see if I went on the trip. Also, she talks about what amazing monuments there could be and what cool things we may hear about. We knew from the beginning we heard about the Washington DC trip we were going to go, but then we ran into some problems. My sister was got ill and she kind of ran into some problems with herself which caused problems with us. My mom had to take her kids while she went off to get some help, unfortunatly this caused problems all around. We had to watch kids a lot, but we also had to pay for their clothes, daycare, diaphers, formula, etc. It may not seem like
Even before joining the Schuler Scholar Program, it was already an expectation for me to go to college. Coming from a low income family with parents who never got a chance to finish their studying, my siblings and I were expected to go to college. My mother would tell us that since we have the opportunities that she never had, there is no reason why we shouldn’t be able to go to college. Growing up my mother was always very strict on my studies. I started studying vocabulary words, spelling, math and how to read at the age of two. My mother used some of my sibling old homework and give me some problems from the assignments. During elementary school, teachers would always tell us that we are too young to think about college.
I interviewed Mr. D on March 20, 2018. Mr. D. is a 23-year-old graduate student at the University of Nebraska at Kearney from which he earned a bachelor’s degree in Organizational and Relational Communications and is currently employed at said university. Throughout his college career, Mr. D. was an active member and president of his fraternity, served as a mentor for the Thompson Scholars Learning community, participated with his home church and helped the university’s recruitment office.
Todays first lecture was by Dr. Browning over his private practice. He decided to focus on how to get into medical school. He had a list of five essential things that everyone with a goal of medical school, or the medical field in general, needs to do. The first thing that students need to do is apply. He said that we will be applying our entire life and that we need to get started early in order to get into a good college. His second piece of advice was to get good grades in high school to be accepted into the college we want to go to. The third piece of advice was to read as much as possible. Reading not only increased vocabulary, but also increases knowledge in the area the book is covering. The fourth piece of advice was to get better study habits. He explained that most of us were used to studying either a day or the night before and that this would kill us. He said that in order to do well in college we need to study for tests up to an entire semester before the actual test. The last piece of essential
I believe determination makes even the most out of reach goals achievable. I’ve learned this through experience, and although my stubbornness gets me into trouble sometimes, it also has helped me do things I’d never dreamed of happening otherwise. When I was eleven, I got my first job. I’ve been working ever since, and have managed to pay for everything from a laptop to an international trip. I’ve seen Phantom on Broadway, Yo Yo Ma in concert, and cruised the Amalfi coast with my high school orchestra. These are all things that were typically unavailable to my family, but I was determined to go. I worked as a babysitter, dog groomer, and a cashier to finance my various adventures. While this determination has taken me around the world, it has also helped me closer to home.
If I could change 5 things about the world it would be all of the violence, the negativity, and the lack of believers, the economic system, and just how individuals treat each other. All of these things are bad and I think changing these things would only improve the world we live in today. My parents are not divorce and they never have been which is something that I am very lucky to have. Nowadays, it seems that almost all couples face divorce at some point. Even though I have never had parents that were divorced I think that one thing that would make it easier on the kids is to not put them in the middle. Like I said before I am in no position to give advice but that is my opinion as to how it would make it
My mentor has done his best to give me the guidance and direction needed for my project to be successful, despite his busy schedule and the multiple tasks that he has to get done. He also tries his best to fit time to work with me in challenging areas of the project. My mentor has always done an exceptional job giving me recognition and positive feedback on tasks that I have performed well. When necessary, my mentor gives constructive criticism and feedback, which are usually related to the project itself and not my performance. I didn't receive any training to successfully accomplish the assignment, but I have been given time to research on my own ways to do things and thus I give it a rating of Meets Expectations. The Assignment are not clearly
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 ...
My practicum experience is at a not for profit, sliding scale organization. We get referrals from area crisis organization as well as primary care physicians. Senior staff carefully screens all of our clients. Novice practitioners are not assigned to individuals who may have suicidal ideation or complex conditions. However, these conditions are not always easily assessed during the phone screenings. If during an assessment or session if the client exhibits an emergency such as described by our text as suicide, threatening violence or other issue which is concerning to the student, we are to call our supervisor on the phone, we are not to leave the client alone (Russell-Chapin, 2016). We have an older phone system with an intercom system
Throughout my life i have always had an immense passion for all underprivileged people around the world. I constantly look at the life I have and can’t help but feel extremely privileged for having a loving family, a roof over my head, and all of life’s necessities because when you look around you realize not everyone is that lucky. Ever since I came about this realization I have wanted to do something about, use my life and my privileges to help others who are in need. I’ve wanted to live a purposeful life one that will have positive impacts on people’s lives both while I'm alive and long after I am gone. I have done small things in my community to raise funds to help the underprivileged people across the world but I think Appalachian State
Whenever I would walk into my high school, it was almost always the same scene; students gathered in their groups of friends catching up from the last time they saw each other, and often our principles standing just inside the lobby drinking their morning coffee and greeting students as they arrived. However, as I walked into my high school on that very first day of my sophomore year, what I also noticed was that some students were already complaining about a teacher they had that trimester, and it made me wonder why. Was it the way the teacher taught? Or did it have something to do with the teacher’s personality? After considering these questions, I realized I was sort of dreading a couple of teachers’ classes I had that year as well, but I also quickly realized that Mrs. Nasson was one of those teachers that I very rarely heard anything negative about, and I soon realized how extraordinary of a teacher she really is and how lucky I was to