The three Strengths I chose out of the five I was given are woo, competition, and communication. Though I’m only in my first year, I am aware of all of the internship and career fairs happening around, especially for my major. I hope to use my ability to make connections with people to make career advancing connections. I want to be more involved in starting to look ahead for my future, and I feel like this trait can best achieve that. Competition won’t necessarily help me academically, but it will push me to further my own personal goals. For example, I’ve tried a few times to go to the gym regularly but I always drop it a few weeks in. But since my roommate started becoming a gym regular, I’ve started going more and trying to out run her on the treadmill. It pushes me to be better and allows for a healthy competition, not only in gym visits, but several other activities I partake in. The last strength I chose was communication, and I think this can help both with my first goal of advancing in my future plans as well as my plans in interests outside of academics, such as the clubs I’m in. Involving my future plans, I find that enhancing my communication skills will increase my charisma when doubled with my woo strength. In clubs, I hope to move up in leadership positions in clubs that have value to me such as Relay for Life, Boo Radley, and Servitecture, allowing me more responsibilities and more experience in these roles to further make these organizations the best they can be. Utilizing these strengths, I hope to achieve the most out of the rest of my first year.

The arts are important to me because they help me express my feelings and creative thoughts. They’re a good way to inspire inspiration and create something completely new, as well as forming a striking idea into a physical piece. It also allows me to let out stress and frustration into a productive outlet through making art. In society, it allows new ideas to flow and also can bring up important issues or problems within the world. It makes the world more interesting, because the arts can be so similar in thought yet so different in execution, in medium, in performance. Anything can be considered art, yet a single thing can inspire more than one emotion or idea.

The arts should definitely be a part of education in the United States, because of all the possibilities it offers. Personally, I relate to the arts because it introduced me to an endless variety of choices of all kinds. It showed me that life had more to it than logic and reason, that meaning could be derived from anything and that anything was possible. It got me to strive for a job that I enjoy rather than one that I was settling for. Art can be an outlet for people who suck at normal GE classes, because they revolve around real processes, mostly with a single answer. But art is controlled by its creator, it is not bound by any limits. Not everyone can be geniuses, but everyone can be artists. By requiring art as a part of education, students are able to learn if they are interested or not. Some aren’t, and that’s okay, but for some it is very important to them. introducing them early on especially allows them to start figuring themselves out more and chasing those interests. The arts are a crucial part of the world, and by including it in education we are encouraging for even greater acts of art to be created.

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