I became Miss Pre-Alumni for the TSU Alumni Association, elected to be Representative-at-Large for the Student Government Association and then elected again as the Speaker of the House of Student Government Association. In my Student Government positions, I created programs to encourage tutoring within the dorms, health, and new policies for student concerns. Recently, I helped create a new policy that allows proxy voting for voting members along with adding new voting members for various reasons to be allowed to vote. Through the Student Government Association, I learned how to operate through government, create and amending policies, and become a voice for the student body. Academically I was inducted into Alpha Kappa Mu Honor Society, Upsilon Phi Delta Honor Society, Psi Chi International Honor Society, consecutively on the Dean’s List since freshman year with consecutive 4.0 GPA semesters since Sophomore year and am on track to graduate with Honors.
“You did it. You helped make a difference,” were the words I heard when I felt my perspective on life change. It was in that moment, standing in the hallway of my high school, holding a crisp check of $2,000 for the American Heart Association that I realized I did not need to be a superhero in order to make a difference. When I became the president of my National Honor Society(NHS) chapter, I set out to make a difference within my school. In years past, the NHS chapter at my school was not extremely active and I set out to reinvent the chapter.
I have frequently tried to impact the lives of others through service, and found that each attempt has also had a profound impact on my own life. This phenomenon is especially true about my Congressional internship with the Hon. Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Leader of the House of Representatives. Working for Leader Pelosi, I learned that service is about the people who are served, and not just about abstract ideas. I learned to serve others best, not by acting as their savior, but rather as their partner- a partner that empowers them to live better lives.
Currently, I am participating in several activities that I believe will be conducive to my goals of becoming a valuable asset to any organization that will have me. In the past few years I have been surrounding myself with activities, academic and otherwise, that I believe to be at least in some way beneficial to my goals in future. My participation in National Honor Society, Student Government, Model Debate, History Bowl, and Tennis each reflect a different aspect of myself that I wish to forge into one cohesive individual. National Honor Society is representative of service and character, Student Government of leadership, Model Debate is for debate and compromise, History Bowl for scholarship, and finally Tennis for camaraderie and teamwork.
Getting involved means being apart of something more, having the chance to met different people, helping out the community, but its also means learning more about who you are as a person. Starting off at Washburn University I plan to get involved right away, in activities or clubs that would help my academically and socially like the Hispanic club , Freethinkers and French club. I will set goals for myself and achieve them, some small some big. One goal I am pursuing right now is learning french and Portuguese, i plan on going to Brazil next year. School goals, are turning in my work on time, stay focused on any task that is given to me, making sure I understand what i need to do and how to do it.
Georgetown instills values and ideals that include promoting social justice, fostering intellectual excellence, and educating the whole person. These values have been integrated into my dedication and passion to contributing to my on-campus communities. Throughout my four years at Georgetown, my academic performance, community outreach efforts, and pursuit for social justice embody these values. My first year at Georgetown was full of twists and challenges.
My efforts to serve my community have been effective through my involvement with student government. I was elected as the Alamance Burlington Middle College’s Student Body President in May of 2017. Our school has only recently established a Student Government Association, so we did not have a constitution to guide us in how to govern our school. At our first meeting for the 2017-2018 school year, I proposed that we draft a constitution for ourselves and for the future student governments at the middle college. We began discussing ideas for our school’s constitution.
I remembered your first year at Claflin University. You were always happy and could light up any room with your personality. I would like to thank you for all the laugher and joy that you bought into my life this year. I truly will never meet anyone like you , which is a good thing. Good luck with everything that you do in life.
On the very first day of school, I began to plan my Senior Project. I wanted to piece together a project that would mean something to me and be beneficial to others. I came up with the idea of collecting donations for homeless people and delivering them to shelters. A close family member of mine was homeless for two years, and because of this, I hold a special place in my heart for homeless people.
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.
The most significant impact that I have made in a community has been through my work as a Student Section Leader. In years past, with the exception of my junior year, the position had generally been given to kids considered the most popular in the school. They ruled through fear, which resulted in intimidating seniors yelling at underclassmen to cheer. The football games (the only games the leaders would attend) generally involved a majority of the people feeling uncomfortable, self-conscious, and waiting for halftime so they could leave discretely. Going into my senior year, I hoped to revolutionize the position.
It was a big stoned building that sat on the left side of the street it was on the same street the brown vs board had there march. The Sanctuary is a place where I can get a complete quietness. Even when I have a lot on my mind it just seems like God erases everything that I have on my mind; my last week before I committed to independence community college to play football. I had a long talk with God just to make sure I made the right decision in choosing the right school. I have a lot of memories in this church the place where my Mom and Dad got married at, where I first got my very first bible.
As a first generation college student, I have the desire to not only make my parents proud of my academic achievements, but to be the first person in my family to receive a college degree. At a very young age, I was always expected to receive A’s and B’s in my school assignments, as well as my final grades. However, I was never rewarded or congratulated whenever I did receive those grades because it was already expected of me to achieve them. Hence, a time in which I have experienced failure but also felt like I let my family down was when I received a D in my Critical Thinking course I was already retaking for the second time. The first time I took Critical Thinking was during the summer in which it was an 8-week long course.
I 'm currently a college student looking to pursue the American dream. My parents are both from the Dominican Republic and in search of a better life, they moved to the Bronx, New York. Both working modest jobs to keep me in college to acquire a degree an opportunity they were not given. From working as cashiers at Taco Bell to being janitors. They saved enough money to leave our one-bedroom apartment in New York and move my sister and I to Indiana because it was affordable.
As an entering freshman, at the age of barely eighteen, it is important for me to begin my college career making the best decisions possible. I would say they thing that “makes me, me” would have to be my determination. Throughout high school I have always made sure that when I needed help that I got it. I spent countless hours after school studying with my teachers when I didn’t understand what all we were doing in class. Ever since middle school I was put into accelerated classes and some were difficult to understand, I may not have gotten the highest grades in these classes but, I always tried my hardest.
