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Describe your personality and character: Fun, social, outgoing, passionate, intellectual, easy to get along with, ambitious.
How do you think others would describe you? Friendly, great listener, great problem solver, strong-willed/determined, clever, analytical, ambitious.
What would you say is your strongest personal trait and why? My ambition, it allows me to overcome all obstacles.
What is your favorite sport? I don’t like contact sports, but I love to work out and do so at least 4 times a week.
Describe your own athletic ability/skills: Weight training and running
What is your favorite type of music? I love all music. If I had to choose, I would say R&B/Soul.
Why is this your favorite type of music? It moves me more than other genres.
Describe your own musical abilities/skills: I was in choir from 5th to 12th grade.
Describe any other special talents, skills, hobbies or interests you may have: Social groups (I am starting a sorority at my school), dancing, problem solving.
What is your favorite book? The entire Harry Potter series
Why? No other book compares in action, intrigue, creativeness, and hidden movements (such as the effect of prejudices and oppression).
What is your favorite movie? My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Why? Because of the way the influence of traditions in families is portrayed in such a loving and comical fashion.
Describe your own artistic abilities/skills: Writing
Do you speak any foreign languages? French
Have you had any unique travel experiences that you feel have helped shape your way of thinking and/or the way you live your life?
I have been on mission trips to El Salvador and Honduras several times as a high school student and having the opportunity to have my eyes opened about the poverty in the world at such an early age helped to make me more humble as an American and more sensitive to the plight of people of developing nations.
Have you had any unique educational experiences? Participating in numerous mission trips.
Have you had any unique experiences with volunteer work? My mission trips to El Salvador and Honduras that are described above, doing missionary work in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, and volunteering by teaching religious education to first grade students for 3 years.
If you were given enough funds to spend one year of your life to engage in any recreational, political, religious/spiritual, or other endeavor of particular importance to you, what would you choose to do? Without question, I would go to the Sudan region of Africa and do relief work. I believe that this region of the world, where there are unprecedented accounts of genocide, and absolutely no aid from the UN, needs the most help and attention than any place on earth today. |
