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Aug 10, 2015
Undergraduate / All of my goals derive from my passion for problem solving and helping others. College Application [4]
Considering your lifetime goals, discuss how your current and future academic and extra-curricular activities might help you achieve your goals.
All of my goals derive from my passion for problem solving and helping others. Because of this, I aspire to be a psychiatrist to help the mentally ill and remove the negative connotations associated with mental disorders. In order to achieve these goals, I have dedicated myself to my academics, and participated in extracurricular activities that expand my talents and allow me to solve problems creatively.
By taking advanced courses I have expanded my knowledge and equipped myself with the necessary skills to succeed in a college environment. In previous years, I have prepared by taking all the advanced courses I could (mathematics, science, English and social studies), and in doing so, have broadened interests and understanding of the involved fields. In addition, I have dedicated myself to the Engineering pathway courses. These have taught me to think creatively and resourcefully, and have bettered my skills as a problem solver. This school year I will be taking all AP sciences, and AP Calculus, among other things. Applying myself to a challenging curriculum has taught me to dedicate myself to my work, while also maintaining time for other important things
UIL Academic competitions were fantastic for helping me excel in mathematics, science, and speech. Our Math and Science team would meet after school to discuss, demonstrate, and practice various principals that would help us at the next competition. My debate team would stay after school preparing our debate topics for the next competition. After being selected to compete at the regional competition for Math UIL, I began studying calculus and trigonometric concepts rigorously, which also helped me improve in my pre-calculus class. Being a member my high school's UIL teams has helped my abilities to think critically, enhanced my decisiveness, and allowed me to advance academically in the related courses.
Participating in my high school's Robotics team has made me into a more well-rounded student and team player. Collaborating with the mentors and other team members has improved my sense of leadership and responsibility. The time and dedication I put into the team taught me how important taking initiative is, and allowed me to gain understanding of the necessity of sacrifice. Through this program I gained technical skills and knowledge, and also spent time volunteering and helping out the community. As a programmer, I learned to think creatively, while projecting my ideas in an organized fashion. As a team member, I learned to be persistent and dedicated, while solving problems as efficiently as possible under any given circumstance.
I plan on majoring in psychology because doing so will expand my knowledge of human behavior and emotion, and consequently, prepare me for my career as a psychiatrist. I am passionate and extremely interested in psychology, and have been for as long as I can remember. It is important to me that I learn as much as I can, in order to become the best mental health clinician possible.
Being a mental health professional requires critical thinking and dedication, both of which have been improved greatly for me throughout my high school career. Figuring out how to balance school with my extra curricular activities along with my own social life has bettered me as a student, while the courses and activities I took part in bettered me as an individual. All considered, I am confident that I will excel in a college environment and be prepared for my subsequent career path choices.
This is only my rough draft so please critique and give any advice you deem necessary. I'd really like for some advice on how to make the body paragraphs flow more smoothly.
(569 words long)
Any input is helpful!
Considering your lifetime goals, discuss how your current and future academic and extra-curricular activities might help you achieve your goals.
All of my goals derive from my passion for problem solving and helping others. Because of this, I aspire to be a psychiatrist to help the mentally ill and remove the negative connotations associated with mental disorders. In order to achieve these goals, I have dedicated myself to my academics, and participated in extracurricular activities that expand my talents and allow me to solve problems creatively.
By taking advanced courses I have expanded my knowledge and equipped myself with the necessary skills to succeed in a college environment. In previous years, I have prepared by taking all the advanced courses I could (mathematics, science, English and social studies), and in doing so, have broadened interests and understanding of the involved fields. In addition, I have dedicated myself to the Engineering pathway courses. These have taught me to think creatively and resourcefully, and have bettered my skills as a problem solver. This school year I will be taking all AP sciences, and AP Calculus, among other things. Applying myself to a challenging curriculum has taught me to dedicate myself to my work, while also maintaining time for other important things
UIL Academic competitions were fantastic for helping me excel in mathematics, science, and speech. Our Math and Science team would meet after school to discuss, demonstrate, and practice various principals that would help us at the next competition. My debate team would stay after school preparing our debate topics for the next competition. After being selected to compete at the regional competition for Math UIL, I began studying calculus and trigonometric concepts rigorously, which also helped me improve in my pre-calculus class. Being a member my high school's UIL teams has helped my abilities to think critically, enhanced my decisiveness, and allowed me to advance academically in the related courses.
Participating in my high school's Robotics team has made me into a more well-rounded student and team player. Collaborating with the mentors and other team members has improved my sense of leadership and responsibility. The time and dedication I put into the team taught me how important taking initiative is, and allowed me to gain understanding of the necessity of sacrifice. Through this program I gained technical skills and knowledge, and also spent time volunteering and helping out the community. As a programmer, I learned to think creatively, while projecting my ideas in an organized fashion. As a team member, I learned to be persistent and dedicated, while solving problems as efficiently as possible under any given circumstance.
I plan on majoring in psychology because doing so will expand my knowledge of human behavior and emotion, and consequently, prepare me for my career as a psychiatrist. I am passionate and extremely interested in psychology, and have been for as long as I can remember. It is important to me that I learn as much as I can, in order to become the best mental health clinician possible.
Being a mental health professional requires critical thinking and dedication, both of which have been improved greatly for me throughout my high school career. Figuring out how to balance school with my extra curricular activities along with my own social life has bettered me as a student, while the courses and activities I took part in bettered me as an individual. All considered, I am confident that I will excel in a college environment and be prepared for my subsequent career path choices.
This is only my rough draft so please critique and give any advice you deem necessary. I'd really like for some advice on how to make the body paragraphs flow more smoothly.
(569 words long)
Any input is helpful!