Why I Want To Pursue Skiing

I started skiing when I was just five. I started taking lessons and really learning the basics when I was seven. When I first started skiing I did not enjoy it at all. I was cold, tired and did not like falling down. After many lessons and skiing on my own, I started to enjoy skiing more. I skied with friends and family a few times a year. The elementary school I attended offered a winter ski and snowboard program. Every Tuesday of every week from January to March my entire school would travel to King Pine Ski Resort in Madison, NH. We would take ski lessons offered at the mountain. During those years when I was able to leave school and be brought to this mountain and ski with friends was when I started to look at skiing less as hobby and more as a passion. Skiing was not just an

The program is both social and academic. I was too ambitious to productive during my last summer of high school. Thus, despite being financially struggle, I tried my best to use my savings to attend the program, with the help of tuition scholarships. In here, I built great connections with faculties and friends, whom I still stay in contact and who are helping me with my academic endeavor. Being an on child who was raised protectively in home and never allow to go on field trip, I thought this was a unique program that allows me to gain independence being far away from home and support myself. The program taught me how to get along with roommates and how to be friends with different people before my real college life started. In the beginning, I shed blood and tears, missing my parents so much. However, I knew that the most difficult obstacle to overcome is overcoming myself. New Start gave a new effect on my work ethic because of the experience I had with college students’ team work and with the conference that I presented. The transition to college became easier a few months

My background behind Nordic skiing is fairly simple. At the age of four, I was put on my first pair of nordic skis. My family does not have any relations to cross country skiing, besides touring around. At age six, I was signed up for my first race. I vaguely remember my first races as a child. I spent my childhood racing for a club team (Polar Bear Ski Club) and enjoyed racing in the Bill Koch (Olympian, 1976) League. I adored the sport and kept with it throughout my childhood

The start of my quest to come to be involved with my university began with freshman orientation on the seventeenth of August. This was the first instance I had ever stepped foot on the campus, and I was so nervous that I could hardly bring myself to step out of my mother’s vehicle. With a few words of encouragement, I finally entered the building where the event was taking place – the Fine Arts Building auditorium. The building was actually recognizable since I had been there several times during high school for choir trips. Once inside, each of the hundreds of freshmen were handed a bag containing pamphlets and informational documents before being told to sit in any seat they

As the freshman year concluded, I saw the writing on the wall. I started making the seismic shift that put me on my path to success to become a top college graduate. Summer residents helped me gain confidence in who I was and take control of my life. While others still bully me every day it no longer phases me, they became mere hot air whistlers in the wind of the halls.

I am currently a freshman at the College of Charleston and my life so far has been great! College life is quite a transition from high school, but I am definately enjoying it. The first few weeks of this semester were kind of a struggle for me because I was away from home and had to figure out how to do everything by myself. In addition to that I had to get in the routine of classes, network with new friends, and get familiar with the campus. I am also involved with our school’s Bonner Leader Program, which is a four-year civic leadership and development program highlighted by regular training and reflection activities, along with the requirement of 200 service hours per year. Through this program, I got the opportunity of interning with Coastal

My first impression of Amherst was of beaming smiles. Surrounded by laughter and cheers, all my worries about making friends and fitting vanished. I couldn’t help but beam back. This first encounter with the Orientation Leaders and many other ones like it throughout orientation week set the tone for the rest of the year. I want to become an Orientation Leader to give the first years a great start to their Amherst experience.

During my first year, I had a very successful year academically as well as starting my position with the football team in the spring. My academic success was in large part of becoming good at time management, talking regularly with professors and receiving support from both Disability Support Services (DSS) and TRiO for my dyslexia. I quickly learned that it is important to attend

Participated as a mentor and leader to incoming high school freshmen by supporting academic success and character development.

I know that many students can identify to what I went through my first year and it would mean so much to me to reach out to those students afraid of what to expect and help them ease into this new chapter of their life. I will also offer an experience that many college students struggled with, which is learning to balance your overall health and well-being with a whole new load of responsibilities and opportunities. I will certainly never leave a student feeling alone because after attending orientation, every new student could say they already have one friend at Carolina: Kate

My time at the University of Georgia has allowed me the opportunity to gain many skills and a better understanding of others by working amongst many individuals. For example, as a Resident Assistant for two years, I provided support for my residents and I understood the importance of developing relationship with them. Being a Resident Assistant prepared me to think quickly while remaining calm and professional, as I had to deal with many emergencies. This position also prepared me to handle conflicts and communicate with concerned parents about their child. The experience as a Resident Assistant also brought out a creative side. With decorating my hall and bulletin boards and creating programs to grab resident’s attention, outside of providing food, I had to think outside the box and become very resourceful. In addition to these experiences, I was a mentor to a first year student under the organization B.E.S.T., where I assisted my mentee with questions about their classes and college experience.

It all started with Alumni weekend, I kept helping my teammates to make sure the correct tasks for the recent grads and returning alumni. I never thought much about Alumni, especially being a freshman with 4 years to go but their passion invigorated me. I conversed with someone who told me to keep my drive and passion as it will be the determinant of a successful graduate or a lazy entitled one. Then, with the Alumni Expo I took initiative and volunteered for more exposure. Although I kept forgetting to jot the exact days down I was integral in making Ryerson better in my little perspective. Seeing the students who volunteer half-fast is disappointing. I made sure I was up to the challenge to make up for them. Lastly, it was Convocation volunteering. It was amazing, you’re helping graduates get on their way out of Ryerson. My teammates managed to get over 800 kids over 3 days in order for successful convocation. It was an exhilarating experience to help these new

My junior year, especially the summer following, became a pivotal period in my life. I obtained many new responsibilities and participated in many different experiences that shaped me closer to the person I seek to become as an adult. I had recently earned my driver’s license, which required months of hard work and commitment. I then began my first job, working the front desk providing customer service at my community pool and additionally took on a leadership role by volunteering in my local community. These responsibilities helped me to develop new life skills.

Working your way through college can be a daunting journey to say the least. There have been a myriad of challenges to overcome, both foreseen and unexpected. A year and half ago I decided to follow my dream of moving to California and obtaining a degree in engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. The decision to follow my passion for science invoked both fear and excitement within myself. I didn’t have the support of many friends and family, as I am originally from the East Coast, many of them seen my moving to California as an unrealistic and unnecessary goal. Despite my own self-doubts and the discouragement of my family I made the decision to relocate to California. That decision manifested the most significant chapter in my life to date. In an extremely short period of time I had to find an apartment, in the Bay Area, one of the most competitive and costly rental markets in the country as well as enroll in school, apply for aid and secure stable

To start off with, as a transfer student coming from a local state college to the University of Central Florida was a huge change. It was a different change because it was the first time I was going to be away from home. I have spent the last twenty-one years under my parent’s wings and it was time to grow and flourish, but that is much easier said than done, it would also be much easier if I was not such a shy person. But my decision