Maci Personal Statement

One of my many goals in life, since I was younger, was to major in a profession where I can change the world and make it a better place. I want to help people and positively impact their lives. This is when I decided to major in occupational therapy and focus the profession towards youth. Hopefully, I will  be able to

Lastly, through my time at CBU, I hope to figure out what God has planned for my life. Right now, my plan is to attend CBU, graduate with a nursing degree move to a third world country for a while, adopt a kid from there, then once I'll move back to America open a nonprofit organization that involves sex trafficking and human slavery. Besides becoming a pediatric surgeon, (but who really wants to go to school for a million years) this would be my dream career plan. However, it might not be the plan that God has created for me. If I attend CBU, through my own personal growth in Christ, I hope to realize the purpose that God has for me.

I would love to be a part of Central Michigan's athletic training program. I have a deep love and passion for sports. After High School I would still want to be in the sports field and I also like caring for people which would make Athletic training the field for me. I am currently a captain on my basketball and track team. I make others around me better and take on the role of being a leader. My goal is to graduate and get my degree. After that I envision myself being a strength and conditioning coach or an athletic trainer. I want to be a good athletic trainer at a college or pro level.

My life is centered around church, sports, and family. I am a hardworking, motivating, caring person. While at Forbush I attend FCA (fellowship of Christian athletes) twice a week, am an active member of HOSA(health occupation students of America), and play or manage many sports. I kept on the A/B honor roll all through middle and high school. I have been the HOSA historian my junior and senior year. My junior and senior year I was one of two head student athletic trainer for football, soccer, wrestling, and basketball. I love being involved in the community and helping out whenever I can. After high school, I plan to attend Catawba College and major in athletic training. To help with this, I went to athletic training camp two years at Greensboro

It was about two years ago that I first heard of Macalester College. One of my schoolfellow that has been a Mac student for a year told me about the life and studying experience for the past year. That was the time that I began to like this school, for its diversity in studying and high-quality life experience. One of the reasons that I want to go to America for college is that I want to learn more expansive knowledges and to learn more about people from different countries to broaden my horizon. Macalester s known for its large international enrollment and has one of the highest percentages of foreign students in the United States, which is really good for me to join . Also since English is not my native language, I have been

I am Pursuing a bachelor's degree in Sports management and a double minor in leadership and religion. Currently, I am working in the Athletic Department; my focus is mainly Game Operations, but I also work Game Administration, Event Management, Athletic Communications, etc. I highly enjoy what I do and work hard in everything that I do. After graduation, I hope to be a graduate assistant in an athletic department and earn my

“What do you want to be when you grow up?” I can not recall the numbers of times I have been asked this question. The question is phrased in various ways:

Promoting women’s equality in the workplace has been a central focus throughout my professional life. As a journeywoman carpenter (prior to my current academic career), I volunteered as a project leader for the Oregon Tradeswomen Inc., OTI (http://www.tradeswomen.net/) in Portland, Oregon. In this role, I taught women in OTI’s apprentice program introductory skills that allowed them to enroll in various trade union training programs throughout the Pacific Northwest. The goal of this work was simple, to increase the number of women in careers that were predominately male-dominated. At every stage of my academic career, I’ve made a concerted effort to mentor female students, and took great joy in watching them succeed. I believe that serving

Born and raised in Marion, Iowa and into an evangelical church, my parents “Baby Dedicated” my life to christ. At age 5 my family moved to New Covenant Bible Church. When I was young I didn't think much of church, it was just something you did and was merely going through the motions. But when I hit middle school my parents made me go to church every Wednesday and Sunday. Key phrase, made me. At this point in my life I didn't like church, at all. As I grew older, I wanted to be at church less and less. And I dreaded going every time Sunday morning rolled around. I had the mindset that the world had more to offer me than Christ did. And so I made excuses and put up fights and soon I rarely went to church. My family went but I stayed

I grew up in the church. My father was a deacon and my mother was a Sunday school teacher. I never remember a time that church was not the center of my life. I experienced great hurt in my young life and nobody knew pain I endured. I would not realize until much later in my life the affect that one event would have on me. My teenage years were turbulent. These years were a time that was marked by poor choices and rebellion. I developed two lives. One I projected in the church and the other outside the church. I never really gave the fact that I was living a double life much thought.

As of right now, wanting to be a teacher, I do not have a set philosophy. I do know that I want to teach physical education. Physical

I want to become someone who teaches, an educator, a role model, a teacher. I want to help children in their early childhood education. I want to become a teacher because teachers play a very big role in children’s lives. Not only do they serve as educators, but for many kids, the classroom is where they feel the safest. They feel welcomed and at home. For these certain kids it is their one place of stability where they are always guaranteed to be loved and get fed and to have fun. I enjoy watching kids grow and helping them develop their learning skills. Every kid needs a good education and I want to be the one giving them that good education. I want to make a difference in their lives and prepare them for the road ahead.

The start of my sophomore year consisted of attending two youth group meetings and then none. Life began to take place and I had made no effort to attend Sunday service. The more I grew the more open my mind became towards my faith. I am catholic and I feel

I have grown up in a Christian home, Christian school, and a local church. I have always been very active in my school. I have played volleyball, basketball, and softball all throughout high school. I am involved in NHS and a service club at my school. I love to serve in any way possible at my church either in youth or our childrens’ department. I have always enjoyed helping and serving others, and I believe that is because of my upbringing. Even though I got saved at the age of five, I accepted what other people told me about God as truth until my freshmen year of high school. After I returned from a leadership conference in Paris, France, I realized the importance of knowing why I believe what I believe. I really began to take the next steps in my faith after that, and have been serving more than ever in my church and school.

Growing up I always lived in a religious household. We always prayed before we ate, prayed before we went to bed, and always went to church on Sunday and Wednesday night. While I never questioned these actions and never tried to rebel against them, I still didn’t understand the importance of them either. I was merely walking in my parents footsteps, doing what my parents told me, singing along to the children’s songs in Sunday school, gave a tithing of my allowance every Sunday, but my life was void of the real meanings of my actions. This went on for years. Because I had not yet read through the Bible to understand why these actions had any meaning, they were just things I did all the time and I thought that was normal and that was what it meant to be a Christian.