I am most attracted to Loma Linda University’s mission to make man whole and continue the teaching and healing ministry of Jesus Christ and its commitment to faith and science. As a Seventh-day Adventist christian, the motto to make man whole has never been more personal than it is now. As I grow in my experience as a christian, to further the teaching and healing ministry of Jesus continues to take center stage. This mission and an understanding of the need for whole person care is something I seek to demonstrate and encourage through my profession as a nurse and involvement in my community.
Application #16 National Junior Honor Society Council Members National Junior Honor Society February 10, 2023 National Junior Honor Society Application Essay Being an asset to Holly Academy’s Chapter of the National Junior Honor Society is a great responsibility and honor, and I feel I am an ideal candidate. First, I am an independent thinker and am able to keep up with assignments and homework. Second, I am able to set goals and work toward achieving them. Additionally, I have an importance of leadership and school pride. In conclusion, I will be an asset to the Holly Academy Chapter of the National Junior Honor Society because I have high academic and behavioral standards, a willingness and desire to help others, and an ambition to become a member.
To make a significant change in the world, countless hours of preparation, of work, and proactive cooperation with others are crucial for success. I partake in few extra-curricular activities, but I have dedicated years of my life to them all. On a regular week, I have to balance French club and National French Honor Society secretary duties, community service for National Honor Society, and additional choir practice for at least two hours after school each week (while sometimes performing community service with the choir as well). I want to become an engineer; so I take AP classes that are useful and interest me because I will need to know advanced math and science concepts in college. All of these extra-curricular activities and academics will become even more relevant when it is time for me to advance my future goals of pursuing a higher education and making significant efforts to aid the world by designing helpful technology with medical applications.
Over the course of my academic career, I have developed several positive traits that make make me a qualified candidate for National Junior Honors Society. My experience from being in a variety of school clubs and leadership positions has equipped me with the necessary character traits for an aspiring National Junior Honors Society member. I pride myself on being reliable, ambitious, and versatile. I have gained most of these traits through being in positions of responsibility.
National Honor Society Personal Prompt Being selected out of hundreds of students to be a candidate for membership in the National Honor Society is a wonderful privilege of mine; it also portrayed that I achieved great thing in my years of school. Throughout my academic career, I acquired many great traits including honesty, scholarship, service, leadership, and character. I dislike when others lie and I feel if I were to lie, I will never achieve anything good in life. In my years of high school, I am attending the Academy of Sciences and remained in the top one hundred of my class.
I would like to become an active member of Carrboro High School’s National Honor Society in order to benefit my community through service. I am immensely committed to serving and improving my community, as I have made distinctly clear with my 143 service hours. Through these service hours, I have focused on the improvement of the future community by helping disenfranchised refugee children coming from horrible living conditions in Western Africa, by teaching children about biology, chemistry, and scientific history, by preparing freshmen for their high school careers, by raising money to protect and aid voiceless animals hurt in car crashes and other human infringements, and by creating rain gardens, planting food crops, and decreasing Carrboro High School’s environmental
The National Honors Society is an organization consisting of outstanding students across the nation, and I am truly honored to be considered to join. Not only does this organization push students to succeed academically, but it also allows them to build character by taking part in their communities through leadership roles and service. With this, I would take advantage of all the opportunities the society presented me to build my own character even further. In my years of high school, I have shown that I am qualified to join the society based on my performance in academics, character, leadership and service. Throughout my years, I have been able to maintain a GPA at a 4.0, while also balancing my time with sports, clubs and a job.
I am accustomed to a rigorous course load and having to manage my time. Being a part of the Honors College, surrounded by those who share the same ideals and high standards as I do, will only further my success. Living in an academically inclined environment would allow for me to make great working relationships and friendships! Not only that, but the Honors College provides many opportunities for study groups and extra help; which will be rather beneficial considering I am planning on majoring in biochemistry. I would be an exceptional candidate for the Honors College because I am not only interested in getting a fantastic education, but I want to get involved in the school and make my college experience the best that it can be.
Personal Statement I am a zealous primary school teacher with ten years of teaching experience which reflects the dedication I have towards my profession. My keenness for learning and aspiration for career progression has motivated me to take up master level studies from a reputed world renowned university. It would polish my skills to use reflective, inspirational, and innovative strategies to impart knowledge to the smart generation of the digital era. Today’s children are living in a global village and to educate these children, teachers need to be trained with the skills necessary to support and prepare them for the future as responsible citizens. I am convinced that teachers with foreign qualification are more confident, have a deeper understanding of pedagogy, and are better equipped to facilitate student’s learning process.
I can contribute my hard work to the Honors College community. I think that I am hardworking and I love to work with others to help solve problems because two heads are always better than one. I would contribute my ideas to the lessons and help others when they need it. I love to be able to work with other people outside my comfort zone and be able to hear their ideas and combine ideas to come up with something that will benefit everyone in the community.
After seven years in management, I am excited for my next challenge to serve as District Manager of a level one district office. I am currently serving in a permanent position as a Group Supervisor in the Louisville, KY Office of Disability Adjudication and Review (ODAR). However, all of my management career prior to March, 2016 has been within Operations. I have been blessed a diverse background serving in a variety of management positions over the last seven years. I began my career with SSA in February, 2005 as a bilingual Generalist Claims Representative.
I would like to start this personal statement by thanking you in advance for taking the time to read this essay and considering me for this scholarship opportunity. In the 3rd grade, I shadowed my mother on a Take Your Child to Work Day. On that day, I viewed the impact that my mom had on her patients in the nursing home setting through assistance with activities of daily living, providing a listening ear, and simply being there to offer comfort. This day served as a pivotal point in deciding my future aspirations and career goals.
I might just be a sophomore in college but I have big aspirations. By 2020 I will definitely have to be done with my Bachelor of Arts. I am majoring in Political Science with a minor in Law and Legal Studies, I am staying focus and contemplating the idea of adding another minor. In addition, I also want to minor in Criminology and Criminal Justice; I just started my second year so I am giving myself time to adapt and understand what I truly want for my academic career.
There were many events that happened in 2017 that made me reconsider aspects of my career, education and society as a whole, but by far the biggest event was the beginning of Donald Trump’s presidency. This was an event that managed to shake up my life, both at Cornell and in Painesville. It was devastating to know that the person in office earned that position through a rhetoric of hatred and discrimination. At Cornell, it was a smack in the face to realize that some of my closest friends and colleagues, whether Dreamers or international students, were living in fear of losing their opportunity of an education at an elite university such as our own. The workload at Cornell is tough enough on its own, and an extra burden of uncertainty for
“Lead people to innovative altitudes!” Currently, I am working at Hampton University, University College Department as an Assistant Registrar /Data Specialist I. I would like to pursue a Ph.D. degree in the Educational Foundations & Leadership with concentration in Higher Education to advance my knowledge of the required leadership qualities, specialized skills, and educational systems so that I may ultimately contribute to the development of the education system.
