Personal Statement

Knowing the things you want in life and who you want to be is very challenging and can be stressful to ponder over. Sometimes family, societal, and your expectations get intertwined. Entering college, I thought I had to know who I wanted to be, however, that was not exactly the case. Attending my First Year Seminar class and taking the multiple assessments in it, such as LASSI, DISC, PLSI, and so on, has allowed me to better describe the person I am and figure out my interests for the career that awaits me in the future. I, and all of us, must have a goal in life to look forward to. My goal is to major in chemistry and maybe minor in mathematics, and to pursue a career in the health field. I am unsure of exactly whether I want to be a physician

The personality assessment classified me with a personality ISTJ, which stands for introvert, sensing, thinking, and judging. I learned that I am an “introvert,” which I would not completely disagree with because I do tend to keep most of my thoughts to myself. Being an introvert supports my goals in life because I am self-driven and will strive to do my best. “Sensing” might not be as accurate because although I worry about the now and what is practical, I do tend to overthink about the future. Thinking about the future is extremely vital in establishing goals and striving to accomplish them, and I am currently doing that. The “thinking” aspect describes that I am a person who is concerned with the facts more than with emotions. I want proof. I want facts. This aspect of my personality definitely pertains to my goal of working in the health field because science is all about proving and testing to establish facts. Lastly, “judging” is another aspect where I agree with the assessment results because I work best when I plan my work and follow it through. Working in the health field and majoring in chemistry requires planning, and by doing that, it makes it easier for me to look at my life for the next few

The career interest profiler assessment was a great tool that enabled me to better describe myself as a person. I have been asked many times to describe myself, which is harder than I thought, and I end up saying something simple and vague because I was uneducated about terms that I could use to describe myself. According to the career interest profiler, social was my top occupational interest, and investigative and enterprising were tied as my second top occupational interest. The occupational interest also allowed me to open my eyes to the various types of careers that exist in the health field that I could potentially find interest in. For instance, dermatologist, allergists, immunologists, medical and health services managers, sociologists, biostatisticians, and so on, were careers that were listed under the occupational interest I selected. This supported my future goal greatly because it assured me that it was okay if I didn’t know exactly what I wanted to do in the health and medical field because I was not limited to just being a doctor, but that there were so many other options pertaining to the field. Lastly, the Locus of Control assessment is somewhat true. I do personally believe