Hi this is my supplement for UT Austin any feedback will be appreciated!
How do you show leadership in your life? How do you see yourself being a leader at UT Austin?
Tips to consider: Leadership can be demonstrated by positions you hold as an officer in a club or organization, but other types of leadership are important too. Leaders can emerge in various situations at any given time, including outside of the school experience. Please share a brief description of the type of leadership qualities you possess, from school and non-school related experiences, including demonstrations of leadership in your job, your community, or within your family responsibilities, and then share how you hope to demonstrate leadership as a member of our campus community.
In my four years of high school I learned that having a title attached to a position does not define a leader. It has become apparent that being a leader is about setting the bar for others including yourself; carrying out actions that elevate your friends, peers, or even complete strangers. For myself leadership has come in the form of helping my peers in miscellaneous classes to incorporating my best friend into launching my sneaker business. Although these forms of leadership are important to me, the start of my schools robotics club has been taught me thoroughly the gravity of leadership. I always connected with everything engineering and this translated to co-founding our schools first robotics club during my sophomore year with, Chris, a friend of mine. It took months to gather funding, resources, and assemble the club, but eventually everything fell into place. One thing was missing though, not a single girl was part of our team, we had no diversity. One of my goals in starting this club was to bring together as many people that shared the same interest in engineering as I did, and clearly this goal had not been met. This didn't stop us though; we discussed this dilemma with our engineering teacher who was able to convince a group of girls from her class to join. To this day or our robotics club has grown exponentially and has been something I've been extremely proud of. In less than 8 months I hope to be able to carry out the same role I played in my robotics club at UT. On campus to classes a goal of mine will be to play an instrumental part in bringing fellow classmates together in anyway possible.
How do you show leadership in your life? How do you see yourself being a leader at UT Austin?
setting the bar
Tips to consider: Leadership can be demonstrated by positions you hold as an officer in a club or organization, but other types of leadership are important too. Leaders can emerge in various situations at any given time, including outside of the school experience. Please share a brief description of the type of leadership qualities you possess, from school and non-school related experiences, including demonstrations of leadership in your job, your community, or within your family responsibilities, and then share how you hope to demonstrate leadership as a member of our campus community.
In my four years of high school I learned that having a title attached to a position does not define a leader. It has become apparent that being a leader is about setting the bar for others including yourself; carrying out actions that elevate your friends, peers, or even complete strangers. For myself leadership has come in the form of helping my peers in miscellaneous classes to incorporating my best friend into launching my sneaker business. Although these forms of leadership are important to me, the start of my schools robotics club has been taught me thoroughly the gravity of leadership. I always connected with everything engineering and this translated to co-founding our schools first robotics club during my sophomore year with, Chris, a friend of mine. It took months to gather funding, resources, and assemble the club, but eventually everything fell into place. One thing was missing though, not a single girl was part of our team, we had no diversity. One of my goals in starting this club was to bring together as many people that shared the same interest in engineering as I did, and clearly this goal had not been met. This didn't stop us though; we discussed this dilemma with our engineering teacher who was able to convince a group of girls from her class to join. To this day or our robotics club has grown exponentially and has been something I've been extremely proud of. In less than 8 months I hope to be able to carry out the same role I played in my robotics club at UT. On campus to classes a goal of mine will be to play an instrumental part in bringing fellow classmates together in anyway possible.