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In a nostalgic article “Endless Summer”, Rick Bragg uses imagery to reveal how the characteristics of a long lasting summer have been changed over time, and often generations now take summer for granted. As a child, Bragg thought of summer as a symbol of time and slowly watched it “stew and simmer” away. He goes into further detail about how as a child he would play in a mud hole to pass time. This opposes his views later stated about how kids today would rather be found inside on electronics to pass their boredom. Bragg’s also states that kids today will never feel “mud mush between their toes” like he felt as a child.
Having a personal interest in understanding human nature and behavior made the subject of psychology an appealing topic to study. During the course of my undergraduate education, various specialties were considered: theories of personality, abnormal psychology, and human sexuality, just to name a few. This broad exposure to the field of psychology at Colorado Christian University has only piqued my interest further. The final class, PSY 485A Psychology Senior Seminar, covered an assortment of practical considerations such as employment opportunities for a degree holder of psychology, ethical issues, and pursuing graduate level studies.
I remain positive and energetic because I always look forward to challenges in life. As ex professional athlete, I always set realistic targets and time scale for myself and others I teach. This method ensures that you concentrate on your targets and remain focused on tasks ahead step by step. I have a different way of training and teaching. I focus on psychology using mind over matter as I believe every person can do any given task.
During my high school years, I pondered upon what my future held for me. The only thing I knew at the time was I loved science. It was during my junior year that I discovered how much joy my AP Psychology course brought me, particularly the units which covered the brain and how it produced behavior. This set me on my path to pursue my undergraduate degree in neuroscience. When I arrived at Randolph-Macon College as a freshman, I had the opportunity to meet a couple of excellent peers whom I will be forever grateful to.
Living with any form of mental illness is never an easy task for one person to deal with alone. My main reason for applying to this course is to attain the knowledge, skill set, and credentials to be able to start and maintain a fulfilling career as mental health professional, specifically a school counselor. My primary interest in counseling started with my own journey as a teenager with depression and finding out that many of my friends at the time were also suffering from stress and overwhelming mental health conditions that we did not fully understand at the time. This experience was the catalyst that encouraged me to pursue a career in the mental health field so that I could better understand the emotional and psychological conflict that
I would consider myself a good and hard working student. I try my best to get either a G or an E on my report card. After filling in the chart i've noticed how much talking in class can affect my mark. Looking at my mark as a whole my goal is to get a G or an E in independent work.
Upon entering college determining your future career is imperative. It is a struggle trying to understand what career best suits me and my skills. I do not want to have a career where I am unhappy or uninterested in what I do. While reflecting on what career best suits me, I reflected on all of my skills that I could enhance. In high school, I tried to involve myself in different groups, organizations, and classes so I can get a feel for possible fields that I thought about pursuing.
Apart from countless extracurricular I partake in within my high school community, I have also volunteered at the Toronto Durgabari (Hindu temple), Woodhall Park Care Community, worked at Yogen Fruz, as well as currently working at McDonalds. Upon my participation in organizing and planning events at my temple I was able to learn to cooperate in a large group of people in which my leadership skill were enhanced among others. After my volunteer work among my religious community, I was molded into an active citizen and built virtues including integrity, gratitude, humility, etc. In addition, after receiving my first job and being apart of a team that works together to achieve a common corporate goal not only implemented a sense of discipline
I am who I am today because of my personal heritage. I was born in Peru and at the age of 3 my mom and I came to the United States. Growing up I did not understand why my uncle who played a father figure role in my life, always pushed me academically, mentally, and physically to become the best I can be at a young age. In the other hand, my grandparents will call every night sounding worried about my mom and I. In addition, my mother will always tell me “today is going to be a good day” as I headed to school every morning.
When I was in 7th grade, I was known as the quirky black girl who wore hot pink knee high socks. I was obsessed with My Little Ponies. I loved playing the violin and I loved to mess with people’s minds with magic tricks. I remember spending hours of my free time looking up card tricks and illusions I could perform during break just so I could hear those “Andrea, how did you do that?! comments.
The word 'Psychology' translates, "study of the soul" in Latin. The study of how we work, think, behave, and function has fascinated me since late childhood, and in recent times my desire to study criminal psychology/criminology has only grown. I started to learn that every individual faces their own unique problems, and nothing in life can be simple or 'normal'. But then what is normal? It really amazes me how, throughout the world, we each have unique and exceptional ideas of how to interact with one another and behave in society.
I have always been interested in the field of psychology because I am fascinated by people. Why they do what they do, why they think how they think, why they feel the way they feel. As my studies progressed, I began to narrow my interest and through a series of friends and books, I became really interested in the way humans at this particular moment are striving to develop computer systems that behave, think, and feel the way humans do. For this reason, I am now pursuing a second degree in computer science. Although some do not see a clear connection between psychology and computer science, I have noticed that even the most basic programs require a level of understanding of human cognition.
Personal Statement. I am applying for Psychology degree after thorough consideration. I like to be in control of who I am and where I am going to. I finished a college course for Office and Business Management and Travel Management and went for building up a career.
To be truthful, my fascination in psychology had been somewhat sporadic; appearing in my earlier childhood years then getting deflected in my earlier middle school years due to the rigmarole over my grandma’s operations, then again reemerging in my high school years after my grandma’s death. My grandma’s death was the trigger for my reemerged love for psychology. Watching my mom and my beloved aunts uncle’s heartache, yet being helpless to help them soothe their pain, it made me feel very miserable and inadequate. I kept asking myself what I could do for them?
It was in my 3rd year of BSC Nursing that i discovered my passion for mental health and psychology, then I made up my mind to go for it , Back in my country we tend to neglect mental health illness. A lot of people in my country don’t believe mental health exist. In black community or my country in general we seem to believe we are strong, nothing can break us down, it has gotten into us so much that we don’t believe in mental illness. There is also a social stigma for health professionals studying any psychiatry or psychology course in my country it is seem irrelevant, we have just one percent of mental health workers in my country. I want to be a part of generation that creates awareness to my country about mental
