Undergraduate / Pseo Program (PSEO) participation and academic goals (University of Minnesota) [3]

motivation, overcoming, and time management

Explain why you would like to participate in the PSEO program and discuss your academic goals and what you hope to gain from your participation in the program.

University of Minnesota Post Secondary Program (PSEO) stresses three key ideas: motivation, overcoming, and time management. These core concepts work hand in hand enabling a high school student to explore life as a college student. I know I am this person waiting to fulfill my goals as a PSEO student.

I believe as a high school student, I have what it takes to be successful at University of Minnesota. At this school, I hope to be able to explore a variety of topics. I also know that I am present with the opportunity to take any classes I want and be taught by some of the most learned and dynamic professors in the world.

If I were required to pick a major at this instant, I would choose nursing, to care for others and save lives. I would love to learn about the experience, and communication with patients.

I believe that University of Minnesota is the best place to be successful. It is a place where a career in nursing can be fulfilled successfully. This school is also located in a great area where there are many opportunities for students. Overall, I am certain to be successful at this school and hope to be apart of it.

Scholarship / (learning english) - write about a time when "hard work" paid off [4]

Learning English - Write about a time when "hard work" paid off.

Five years of hard work invested into the English language.

Yellow dictionary lying on the floor, waiting to be looked at but never seemed important until the day single tears filled up the bed like a river. Every day I would go to school sitting in my desk when the pretty little girls sitting next to me would ask me to say a word and then turn around and giggle at the word said. I would always wonder what was so funny. This was until one day when my closest friend told me that it was because I did not know how to speak English, and my other classmates doubted my ability to learn. Their discouraging remarks included telling me that I might as well stop trying to speak it.

I ran home crying my eyes out and finally opened the book, going through every word, asking every family member to help me enunciate words, spending hours at the library reading books to help build my vocabulary, and having flash cards wherever I went. If learning english meant staying up every night until the sun came up, then that is what I did. Little steps every day like learning words around my house, how to say "room, bathroom, kitchen," food I ate and animals, and using them in sentences led me to where I am today. Knowing that all my hard work paid off is the greatest satisfaction to my personal accomplishments. After all, that same yellow dictionary still lays in my room, but on a special shelf, looking at college words.