My Personal Statement

I've always wanted to attend college. For me it was always a question of where to go? And how I’d afford it? Rather than will I go? My dad, however, encouraged me to think about why I wanted to go to college. What was driving me? Was it because college was what everyone expected me to do? Or was it bigger than that? He told me that going to college just because all of my peers were going, wasn’t really a good reason. For a long time, I didn’t have a good answer to that question, other than I just love to learn. That was before I discovered neuroscience.

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

As a result of several motivational purposes, there are many driving factors to go to college that can and will impact one’s life. Before going to college, I waited 2 ½ years after I graduated high school to finally make my decision to go to college. The reason it took me so long is that I did not know what I wanted to do with my life. First, I wanted to be a probation officer, then I changed my mind to be an OBGYN, then finally I made the decision to become a nurse. I know I have a long road of schooling ahead of me, but that is okay. I have wonderful people in my life that encourage me to continue my studies. Going to college is important since it can open many opportunities to get into a better career field, it is a fun experience, and it can also start a tradition in my family.

As cliche as it may sound, college was never an option that I gave myself. Going to college was more of an obligation that I set for myself when I started enter the field of education as a student. In my household, the goal of getting into college was always around me. The daily discussion in my household when it comes to the discussion about school, always starts with, “When I get to college”. When I have discussions with adults and career counselors about my career choice, I always start off with, “When I finish college”. A college education is important in my family, and I have been taught the values of having a college degree can guarantee me a successful job in life. My mother continually pushed me towards the entrance of college,

My personal philosophy is made up of a combination of questions and ideas from the three branches of philosophy: metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics. Metaphysics is the study of where the world comes from, what it is made of, and if anything is eternal or changing. Epistemology focuses on what we know, how we know it, and if there is any absolute truth. Ethics analyzes decision making and morals.

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.

I believe that the first 5 years in a child’s life are the most important. They are the building blocks for their learning. Experiences, children should be interwoven through all developmental domains, physical, social, language, emotional and cognitive, being able to build on their learning experiences in a safe, inviting and engaging environment. Children at their first teachers (REGGIO), they are capable and confidant learners and children should be able to bring their own ideas into their learning. Through discussions and observations I believe that each child will feel valued and have a pro-active involvement within the programming each day.

Getting an education has always been an important goal in my life. From my fifteen years of schooling I have learned a lot in the traditional sense, but I am now ready for a more hands on approach that is also tailored to my interests. I am planning a concentration in criminal justice, and as a woman, no program is of greater interest to me than the core course of “Prostitution and the Sex Trade”; it is the number one reason I am applying to DIS. It’s an issue that encompasses many different and important points of view which is an extremely relevant aspect of sociology. My future in sociology is dependent on my ability to learn from others with diverse backgrounds and I also think it is necessary to become more knowledgeable regarding other countries’ cultures and ways of life.

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

Ever since I was a child, barely starting elementary I knew that I wanted to attend a college. My parents worked for what they wanted. Nothing was handed to them, my parents got married at seventeen and had me at eighteen years of age. They came to the United States when they got married. I was privileged enough to have papers and have a great start to my future. In our family it was always evoked to the idea of going to college and working hard. I come from a family of six and me being the oldest,this always put so much pressure on me to be the example of my siblings and them looking up to me. In our household my parents always told us that we had to go to college so that we wouldn't have to go through the troubles that they went through. Having that in mind I knew that college was the only way out of being poor and struggling to get through life. Aside from having my parents

When was a small child, I had a lot of imagination and was burning with creativity. My sister and I had a composition notebook full of ideas for our own tree-house. Even though they were crazy and unrealistic, we still put a lot of passion into them. There is this odd thing I do when I listen to music, I started jumping around in my room with my arms spread out like a bird so it looks like I'm flying. My mom calls it "Dance Fantasies!" and she would wiggle her fingers while saying it. Today, the book is long gone, my sister is a freshman college and I'm a high school Senior. Our minds have drifted from all those insane projects we did as kids. Nowadays, I have thought about putting my imagination and creativity into my future career. I remember when I was an eighth grade I thought about what I wanted to do once I got into high school, and I narrowed my options down to Culinary Arts.

Kolten Caravalho Per.2 Personal Statement To me my family is very important, they thought and continue to reach me the right ways to do things and what is right and what is wrong. My family is important to me because they always got my back no matter what happens. My family will always keep me in line and away from the bad. My family will always be there when I need them to be. My family is special because we always spend time together and have good times at the beach, at grandma’s house or up in the mountains.

I am aiming high when it comes to my plans in the STEM field. I am planning to double or possibility triple major when I start my journey at St. Thomas. This is because I’ve always pushed myself to go beyond. Starting from middle school, when I first got the chance to take high school courses, until this very day, where I am taking full time college classes under the Postsecondary Enrollment Option as a high school senior. I plan to challenge myself. The subject I want to major in at the school is computer science. Since by the time I graduate high school I should be finished with two years of college, I believe I should have more than enough room to possibly also major in physics, computer engineering, or math at St. Thomas. I believe that an education at St. Thomas will help me achieve this goal for one key reason. My cousin, who graduate from the school with a biomedical engineering degree a few

My personal mission statement is as follows: To be a positive and influential person in society while still being myself at all times.

One day I was going through my Facebook profile, and I recognized I was friends with five hundred and eighty people. I was dumbfounded by the great number of individuals I am associated with through my profile. I went through the list to identify several people who I have never met in real life. Most of them were schoolmates, college mates and individuals I had mutual friends with. I was Facebook friends with a majority of them, just because we were part of the same organization. I went to the same school as Ben, but till now I never talked to him, ironically I know what he does with his life through his posts. Social media, to my opinion, gives an illusion that the five hundred and eighty people are actually your friends. In reality they are your “online friends” and your real friends can be categorized into three categories: acquaintance, friend, and best friend.