My drive to become a school counselor wasn’t created during a single epiphanic moment. Rather, my drive to become a school counselor is a direct result of past achievements and activities. After I graduated from West Chester University, I traveled the country, tried things I hadn’t before, and learned new things about myself. I have always best learned through hands-on experience, and appropriately, it was during that time that my passion and ambition became clear. Although my drive to become
Assistant would be a great fit as it highlights my understanding of the importance of a strong community and how literacy is used to achieve this as well as my passion for books. Ultimately, books have always provided me comfort whether read or just sitting beside me on those long car rides as a child and now today as I have my own personal library on hand when the actual one is closed. Recently, I have moved to Lawrence and want to get to know the community more and believe working here would
As a young child, I felt powerless against the emotional abuse of my father, however I found that the one thing that did make me feel powerful was being an athlete. This hardship not only brought out strength, courage, and confidence, but also deepened the passion, humility, conscientiousness, and ambition within me. Athletics, education, and community helped me overcome fear and prosper. I learned healing through athletics; I loved feeling strong, confident and free, yet in control. Discipline,
motivations for wanting to attend West Point, a large one being my passion for service. Since I was a child, I have had a desire to serve my country and better my community. Be it traveling 17 hours to aid the victims of Hurricane Sandy, serving as a peer counselor to students younger than me, or creating a community engagement project with the intention of lowering crime and obesity rates in Hartsville, South Carolina’s youth – each service mission, no matter how small, made a difference, and was thus
apportion costs among those who benefit from the services. • They have difficulty ensuring that different types of development take place in suitable locations, because of the lack of land use and service planning at the local, regional and provincial level. How did you overcome these challenges? Ensure that municipalities meet basic needs of communities. This implies that an environment is created, support provided and systems built to accelerate quality service delivery within the context of each municipality’s
magical world of law and order. I would collapse into my bed after a long day second grade and succumb to dreams of my appointment to the Supreme Court of the United States. On the morning of President’s Day, 2006, my mother pulled my hair into a flawless bun, while I fastened my first pair of high heels into place. I adjusted my small blazer and spent a day in the courtroom of Iowa Fourth Judicial District Judge Greg Steensland. Thus began my first day as the Midwest’s youngest practicing legal enthusiast
with similar backgrounds. While earning my Bachelor of Arts at the University of Alaska Anchorage, my awareness of being one of the few minorities in my classes only grew. As such, I realized not only the importance of graduate education in order to advance my own training, but to better serve the working-class families in the communities in which I have lived, worked, and studied. My personal experiences with changing family dynamics and loss, as well as my job, and class work provided me with a
develop personal relationships with my professors are priceless. SMU also has my first-choice major, Biochemistry. When I toured SMU, I fell in love with the gorgeous campus and friendly students. While I am a student at SMU, I hope to step out of my comfort zone. I have lived in the same house for seventeen years, gone to the same church for seventeen years, and attended to the same school for fourteen years. I feel as if I have lived in a “Northeast Jackson bubble” for my entire life, and I am ready to
Academic Standing Through the vehicle of homework, my mother taught me the importance of working hard. After 14 years of schooling and thousands of hours dedicated to my coursework and homework, I am ridiculously proud to have achieved an ATAR score of 89.25, accomplished only through my dedication to my study and my effective organisation methods. Each year of high school, my excellent achievement and devotion to my study has been recognised through effort and academic awards. In Year 11, I received
always been interested in helping the community and been inclined towards promoting health and wellbeing for the people. I remember that when I was a little girl probably six or seven years old, I used to tell everyone that I saw smoking: don’t smoke its bad for you and it affects your body. Back then it was a random act of a child, but this made me realize that I wanted to help the community by educating and promoting them towards a better and healthier lifestyle. My family thought me an important lesson