Personal Statement: Pursuing A Bachelor's Degree In Psychology

When I set a goal I work at it until I reach it. I am always setting new goals to help challenge myself and to make myself better. I am a quick learner and I love to help others. One of my strengths is that I know my own limits. I am a team player and I am very trustworthy. My dad has taught me ever since I was a little kid that being honest, loyal, and that being a man of integrity is very important. I am good at managing my time, problem solving, and I have great mathematical skills. I am in an advanced math course. Something that I am not good at is being coordinated, I am a really clumsy person. I am not good at athletic activities. I can be selfish, sometimes I struggle with sharing things with my younger sister. I am a shy person. I used to be really messy when I was a kid. I was one of those kids that would shove everything into a closet or hide it under the bed when I had to clean my room. Now I have gotten a lot better at being organized. Being organized has been able to help me keep track of my

My entire life I have always been on the search of a career that would fit my persona, fit who I truly am, and to become someone who will constantly have the ability to help people through their difficult problems that they face. Throughout my life I have been deemed the type of person that people felt comfortable coming to with their problems. Maybe people feel this way because they sense that I have a sympathetic ear? Well, all I can say is that human behavior has always seemed interesting to me and that is probably why I made the decision to go down the psychology career pathway.

In my lifetime I hope to be able to experience as much as possible before I inevitably die. I have Dreams of traveling the world, meeting people, and creating experiences that I will never forget. I want a job that I enjoy and a family that I love and can share my experiences with and create even more with them. Most of all I just want to live a happy life, one that when I’m old I can look back on and have more good memories than bad. A life that I can be proud of and feel that no time was wasted.

From the start I was independent. I love to solve things individually and having my own special experiences. I am also very outgoing. I love meeting new people,getting to learn new things through other people and discovering and hearing ideas I’ve never heard before. I am also very adventurous. I love to try new things and learning something new. Also, if you ask any of my close friends or family they know I am very ambitious, charismatic, and compassionate. When I have a goal I make it my duty to reach it. I have a very special personality. I

My name is Courtney Torok and I am currently a senior here at Kennesaw State University. I am graduating this December with a degree in psychology. I am originally from Michigan and moved down here to Georgia with my family just before starting at Kennesaw State University. I started off majoring in chemistry with the intent of applying to some kind of medical program, but eventually found that my passion was psychology. I have always wanted to work in the “helping” field. After graduating, I plan on applying to graduate school for school psychology programs where I will earn both my Master of Science in School Psychology and Specialist in School Psychology degrees. Ideally, I would love to be accepted into a graduate school in Florida, as

My specific career ideas are still a little vague, but, I do know mental health is something that I am going to pursue in one way or another. Mental health has always intrigued me a little because I had an Uncle with schizophrenia, I never met him and my Mom’s family doesn’t really talk about him a whole lot, but I still think about him a lot. I got to see what happened with his family after, but I can’t see how they were before, and I will always wonder about how he might have influenced my life. My interest in mental health became more directed when I took my first psychology class, the introductory psychology class at Montgomery college in the fall of 2014. I really liked it, partially thanks to the teacher I had, but mostly because it gave me a better understanding of what mental health is. The next psychology class I took was on personalities and it confirmed that psychology and mental health are something I truly am passionate about.

When I get older I want to be a veterinarian. I want to travel to Hawaii because it's peaceful and the water is pretty. I want to live in the Bahamas because the weather is nice and the beach and water is pretty. If i were to get married it would be on the waterfront in the Bahamas or Hawaii. I eventually want to become a mom because i love children and i think they are so cute

I'm very articulate and confident in what I say. I love debates and tend to be quite overbearing with my opinions. I'm also a writer. I am very passionate about what I write. The stories that I write tend to not have a meaning. The story is meant to let the reader explain what happened, though not being sure of it, leading up to many themes. I'm a very cheerful person and I'm not as socially awkward. I try to be friends with everyone and tend to be overbearing on that concept. I'm that type of person who would say a compliment to a stranger with no

I have a Masters of Arts in counseling from Maryville University and bachelors of arts from Governors State University. Due to working with youth outreach programs, in mentoring capacities, within hospital and treatment setting, within residential settings, and within higher education I am trained to work with individual and couples of varying abilities. I also have extensive knowledge and sensitivity in working with people with trauma survivors, anxiety and depression, adolescents and families, sexual and gender minorities (BDSM and LGBTQ), and monogamous and polyamorous couples. I have experience working with clients in art therapy, DBT therapy, and in groups.

I will be a person who always works to achieve their goals with grace, dedication, and hard work. In my future professional life, I would like to be the head of a department, preferably in a collegiate setting, and plan on achieving this through obtaining my master’s degree in Management and getting an entry level job and working my way up. I currently work in a department heads office on campus and I really enjoy all the aspects of it. In my personal life, I want to stay strong in whatever I face, and be an overly involved mother to at least two children.

I want to be a psychologist. I would love to learn all about the way people act, think and feel and at the same time try to help them. I have a very easygoing personality and I love to have fun and laugh. I ask a lot of questions, and I think I am very easy to get along with. Some career goals I have is to finish college, I would like to find a job I want to keep that I could make a career out of, and just take it one day at a time because I have desire to make the right decisions and live a pleasant life.

There are many things that I hope to accomplish and do when I get older. I want to improve and accomplish different things for myself in my career that I choose, in my material goals, and spiritually. I'm looking at the year of 2009, I will be out of college and be on my feet, hopefully. I have high expectations for myself and hope to accomplish as many of my dreams and goals as I can throughout my life.

Psychology is the study of the mind, its biology, and behavior if the individual. The father of psychology, Wilhelm Wundt, used objective measurement and controlled analyzing to find and emphasize separation between psychology and philosophy (McLeod). Wundt opened the Institute for Experimental Psychology at the University of Leipzig in Germany in 1879, using his background in physiology to study reactions and sensations (McLeod). There is no doubt that he, along with the later help of Sigmund Freud, launched what is now modern psychology. Psychology and its research helped the world understand the inner workings of the mind and how it affects everyone around us.

I like to look at myself as a genuine, thoughtful young lady. I’m a hard worker; I believe nothing is ever handed to you so you have to go get it. I worked hard to get to this point of my life and working even harder to get to the successful and graduate part of my life. I care more for some others than I do myself but I have a huge nonchalant attitude. I don’t really show anger or sadness much I always smile because I’m optimistic about life. I look at life as if something bad comes along, no need to dwell on it you can’t take it back so just move-on and improve what you did wrong if it’s possible.

In my personality analysis, it says that I am warm. I agree with this because I am very passionate and affectionate. I am the first to look at a person’s situation from my point of view before I accuse someone of something that they may have or have not done. I am also very sensitive. At times, I think I am too sensitive. Almost anything can make me cry. There are times that I have gone through the worst break-ups and would mope around for weeks. There also have been situations with my family that had me in tears. For example, my mother and I have not spoken to each other for about a week and the situation has had me down and out, crying and loss of my appetite. I also agree with being artistic. I loved to dance and make up dances and I also like drawing. Do not misunderstand me, I am not a professional dancer nor have I taken any classes for drawing, but the little dancing and drawing I do, I love doing it.