My Personal Statement On My Life

My vision as an undergraduate student of the Haskayne School of Business (HSB) is to become a well-rounded influential leader and equip myself with a set of skills and values that will enhance me as an individual in my career. Thus, my goal is to succeed academically and socially, graduating with a distinction and having built strong relationships.

Pursing a career as a medical doctor is an opportunity for me to mentor youth in underserved populations. As a child, I was raised in the low income, urban community of Roxbury, MA. Although not as notorious today, the neighborhood had garnered negative attention for its high crime rates. My mother emigrated from Haiti and raised me as a single parent. Due to our financial circumstance, Roxbury became our permanent residence. I have always felt there was something lacking in Roxbury in comparison to other towns I visited. My teenage years were largely spent in the suburban town of Stoneham where I attended high school. There was a literal difference in air quality and a psychology contrast in future prospects. While native students of

There are few certainties of what one will encounter during life. A common joke names two: death and

Lee University’ mission in scholastic curriculums is, “to develop within the students’ knowledge, appreciation, understanding, ability, and skills which will prepare them for responsible Christian living in a complex world.” In implementation, the practice of ethical action, redemptive service and responsible citizenship within the church, local community, and globally, are emphasized. As an older student at Lee University, I admit that these values were heavily communicated to me, by my mother, from an early age. After high school, I did not pursue a vocation and worked in a factory in Alabama for a couple of years. It was during this time, that I realized, that God wanted more out of and for me. I returned home to Tennessee, and by

I have been a communications officer in FCR for 8yrs, I was also a special constable for 7yrs, during my time as a comms officer I have progressed through call taking and dispatching. Last year I was successfully promoted to scale 5 and have been working as a senior comms officer since that time. I am a tutor and have tutored 9 new members of staff on call taking and dispatch and 2 others on the ANPR desk. I am fully trained in ANPR, VODS, recruitment and selection interviewing and as an acting supervisor. I am also the health and safety SPOC along with first aid and fire marshal for FCR a role I volunteered to take on alongside my normal duties. I have completely rewritten the health and safety book to bring it up to date, I have

I thrive on gaining knowledge. Even now, as a non-traditional student and busy mother to two young children, learning excites me. As an 18-year-old in Germany, I began a 10-year career as a military analyst that honed my ability to think critically, pay attention to detail, and visualize holistic solutions to unique problems. However, I spent my free time riding a bike along The Rhine searching for a quiet space to settle in with the wisdom of books such as The Art of Happiness and The Elegant Universe. There, on those riverbanks, I discovered within myself an innate curiosity of the mind and the fundamental nature of the world.

I started my career in an unorthodox way: delivering science and technology news directly to

Through my whole life I have always desired to go to college. I observed the hardships that members of my family endured by choosing not to go to college and lacked the proper skills needed for a sufficient job. I never want that for me, and one day when I have a family of my own I want to be able to do my share in providing for them properly. While both of my parents have taken post secondary classes, neither have obtained a college degree, and they have always pushed me to pursue my dreams in getting into a school of my choice. I have always loved my science classes and have dreamed of majoring in a science field. When I was younger, my great-grandmother died with Alzheimer's, and I was so devastated that I told my mother I was going to grow up and cure Alzheimer's. I never wanted another soul to feel what I was feeling at that moment.

I care deeply about people with disabilities. I believe that people do not understand what is really like for someone who happens to have a disability. They treat them rudely or differently. They do not understand the way the perceive topics, the way the take some remark a person may have said, and they do not understand that they are teased. I think we need to think before we do things.

I was born in a military hospital in Wurzburg, Germany. My father was a captain in the U.S. Army and my mother was a homemaker. I spent the first several years of my life living on an American military base, and attending German schools. My brother and I had many friends both native to Germany, and from the U.S. My father was often deployed; so many times it was just the three of us. My mother was very active in our lives, teaching us to ride bikes, taking us to school plays, and reading to us at night.

Ever since I was about 5 years old my parents would always drag me out to the orange groves in order to produce money to help support the family. Every time I began to complain they would advise me that if I wish to avoid this kind of life that I better put forward all I have in school to advance to college and live a better life. My primary goal is to indulge the college experience to learn and mold me into a man prepared to succeed at all he does. My parents inserted the right values into me and chiseled hard work into my DNA. Now it’s time to earn my bachelor’s degree in sports management and hopefully double major with a degree in sports marketing as well. My goal is to become a person ready to inspire and aid a myriad of people on my trail

Who am I? I am Leticia Martinez, a 21-year-old, mother of two beautiful children with an amazing husband and currently working on increasing my cultural capital by pursuing a college degree. I am a strong, independent woman who is full of life and not afraid to take any challenge life brings. I am a woman who never allows anything or anyone bring me down. But before I was able to discover the person I am today. I had three agents of socialization build me. These agents consisted of my family, stepdad, and school. Some people learn to be strong because they are taught, but I learned to be strong by facing life a very unpleasant way.

“He didn 't want you.” my mother whispered. “He did not want you then and he does not want you now.” The words rang inside my ears and lingered there for what felt like an eternity. Is it possible for the man that created me to despise me so much that he wanted me dead or wanted nothing to do with me? I felt hurt, unwanted, and like I could never be complete without my father in my life, little did I know I would learn one of the greatest lessons; that all I would ever need to be complete was my mother.

After my sister left for college my mom made everything I did her business. I couldn’t do anything without her being one foot behind me asking what I was doing. And during my junior year she constantly did this to me and I almost killed myself. She thought of me as the actual child of god.

As I am shuffling through the plethora of papers sitting on my desk, hoping to find the career pamphlet that tells me who I am and what I am supposed to be doing with my life, I realize that no one other than myself can answer “Who am I? Who am I in the process of becoming?” As I begin to map out my future in accordance with my interests and career goals, I realize how lending a helping hand and acting as role models for others have been an essential part of my daily life. I aspire to impact the lives of others, as there is nothing else that brings me more happiness and personal gratification. There is no other way to describe the warm feeling that I experience when I see the change in someone’s expression or attitude after I help them, whether it be through the way their eyes light up or the way they smile gratefully at me. It could be a small act of kindness, such as holding the door for someone or assuring a worried person, but I believe as humans it is our duty to serve and act as a role model for others, to promote the well-being of communities worldwide.