Global Awareness
As one of the G.O.A.L.S., Global Awareness is probably the one I am least focused on now. It’s not that I find Global Awareness to be unimportant, but that I find that I first need to become fully aware of my current surroundings before expanding my visions and views. I first want practice with the ability to properly process my surroundings on a smaller scale, so that when I do expand my view I will have a clear understanding. I believe that taking my time is better than the alternative of expanding my view too quickly and having an improper understanding.
Original Inquiry
Original Inquiry is a category that greatly applies to me, as I am in the physics major. Original inquiry and research go hand in hand and research is of great importance to physics. I am not currently a part of any research group, but I have been attending SPS (Society of Physics students) meetings since the start of my time here and at those meetings, professors or students come and talk about the research they are currently working on. I would like to be a part of a research group by the end of my sophomore year, but am currently just allowing myself to grow in other aspects.
Academic Enrichment
Academic Enrichment is an interesting category, for it is the category that is most dominant to a typical college student. Academics are what our lives are centered around as students. Currently I have done well, I’ve gotten the high on some of my midterms and have all A’s in all of my classes this semester. My only goal for myself is to do my best, because while I ideally would have all A’s throughout all of school, holding perfection as a standard is simply unhealthy and I trust myself to try my best without that standard.
Leadership Development
My current goals for leadership development involve continued participation in various clubs I am in and taking bigger roles in them. Currently I am a member of Knitting and Crafting club as an active crocheter I have taught a variety of new members how to crochet and even some experienced crafters who have never tried to before. I hope to continue in this active role in the club and hopefully maybe become an officer next year. It’s given me an outlet to share my talents with others which in turn enriches my own.
Service Engagement
When it comes to service engagement, my goals are simply to participate in a few service activities every few months or so. Currently I do not have a strict guideline of how many to do or when, but when opportunities arise I tend to join in. For example, crafting club has a big event where we make, as well as teach those outside of the club how to make, security blankets for Project Linus. This year I am showing up early to help set up. I think this a good example of the service engagement I strive for, because an opportunity to help appeared and I took it, but I do not have any personal standards of how much engagement I have to do.