Throughout my high school career I have taken a variety of classes. However, my academic interests are mostly limited to French, history, social sciences, computers, and English. Rather than figuring a difficult trigonometry or physics problem, I prefer to utilize my critical thinking powers when examining advanced literature, analyzing historical texts, evaluating case studies in social science classes, or trying to discern the French language. Although math and science aren’t my strengths or preferred courses of study, I challenged...

Since I had such a large variety of interests in high-school, I never really climbed very high in just one area. Foreign language was always a favorite of mine. So as a result, I was very involved in the French Club. I had executive positions in the French Club and then was co-president of the French National Honors Society. In addition, I participated in a few service extracurriculars such as National Honors Society, Gator Link Crew (helping freshmen at our...

My extracurricular activities in college have been pretty diverse and spread out. My first year, I was still figuring out what I wanted to do. I was a history major who had a desire to switch into Speech and Hearing Sciences but had to wait a whole year to do so. So I volunteered that first...

My post college plans first involve me seeing if I need to take the GRE again. I'm hoping to take it during my senior year of college, so the year I'm about to enter into, and hopefully I won't have to take it twice. After that, I'm planning on working for a year as a case manager or any job I can get my hands on for a year or two with a B.S. in Psychology....

The University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign was always a dream school for me. My cousin, brother-in-law, and multiple friends of the family had attended the school. They all had crazy and funny stories and loved their experiences there. Each of them have also moved...