I am so excited and grateful to be attending Penn State. The University offers so many fantastic opportunities. I am most looking forward to the internships, study abroad, and just the self-enrichment of my social and academic life. Here at Penn state there so many reasons to succeed. The faculty, professors, and just the peer mentors play a huge part as to why I choose Penn State. I love the big school, big resources aspect. I am at Penn State because this is the school I have wanted to attend since I was seven and wanted to be a doctor. Things have changed since then, like my attended major, but Penn State has always had a piece of my heart. I love the campus, and it just feels like home. It is also a great school that offers wonderful classes lead by amazing professors and staff.

I am most anxious about bad habits coming back to haunt me, such as being late or not coming at all. I will overcome this obstacle by not taking 8am classes and getting my work done in advance, so I don’t pull all-nighters. I am also anxious about making the same mistakes I made in high school, like powering through and not really being social. I did too many rigorous classes, clubs/sport and had two jobs, so I didn’t really have a social life. I deeply regret this now because I missed out on so many fun trips and experiences. I will overcome this obstacle by attempting to be more outgoing and planning fun things to do with friends. Lastly, I am anxious about not being able to handle the workload. These classes I am going to take at Penn State are to enrich myself with knowledge and to prepare me for my career. I am not just memorizing answers for a quiz or some standardized test. I am trying to learn and better myself, so of course, I am apprehensive about learning as much as I can.

Now that I am here at Penn State, I want to do things differently than I did in high school. I want to and need to go to class on time, I won’t be able to succeed if I don’t show up. I also need to put in more effort. In high school, I did too much that at a point, I stopped giving everything my all, but because of that, I know now not to stretch myself so thin. Lastly, high school taught me a tough but valuable lesson, and that is to balance and to know that I can’t do everything. I want to have a great academic, social, and excellent work life, but I also need not overwork myself or lean too much on one of those aspects of my life.

At Penn State, I want to accomplish many things. One goal I have for the first semester is not to miss one class. For my first year here, my goal is to join a club. Lastly, my goal for my four years here is to get a great internship and possibly a great job. I can achieve these goals by studying, managing my time, and creating meaningful relationships with professors and staff. I made these goals on June 30, 2019, and shared them with everyone on my blog and my best friend, Victoria.