I have graduated from Montgomery County Community College with a degree in liberal arts. I have enrolled in all of the courses I have been interested in thus far while still fitting them into the program requirements for my program. I feel have built an excellent infrastructure to continue onwards towards a Bachelor’s degree in any direction. As for my academic goals, I plan to earn a degree biology and work in the scientific field or health professional field in the future. My personal goals are to increase my own personal health while gaining experience in the health professional and science fields. I am interested in the human body and inner-workings of bodily systems. I am also interested in bodily structure and the ailments one might
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It is of interest to me because I feel Penn LPS can act as a catalyst to my own self-actualization. The model includes five stages of needs, physiological, safety, love and belonging, esteem, and self-actualization. The final stage, self-actualization, is described by terms such as problem solving, creativity, lack of prejudice, and acceptance and morality. This self-actualization stage comes after mastery which is included in the esteem stage, it is described as when one has obtained adequate knowledge and resources rendering one the ability to give back to one’s community. An expanded model can be found deeming a final stage of transcendence. This is described as when one has reached such a level that they can help others self-actualize. Institutionally speaking, this is what I hope the University of Pennsylvania can serve as for me, a transcending mechanism to aid my efforts towards my dreams.
Relating to Penn with a general anecdote is that I have a Quaker background in my family tree, though I am aware Benjamin Franklin and George Whitefield are the founders, I am related to William Penn by marriage. Another anecdote of my family history is my relation to Paul revere as he is my grandfather of eight generations past, my mother actually has a piece of his wife’s clothing in her possession which she holds dear to her heart. The piece is said to be
It is of interest to me because I feel Penn LPS can act as a catalyst to my own self-actualization. The model includes five stages of needs, physiological, safety, love and belonging, esteem, and self-actualization. The final stage, self-actualization, is described by terms such as problem solving, creativity, lack of prejudice, and acceptance and morality. This self-actualization stage comes after mastery which is included in the esteem stage, it is described as when one has obtained adequate knowledge and resources rendering one the ability to give back to one’s community. An expanded model can be found deeming a final stage of transcendence. This is described as when one has reached such a level that they can help others self-actualize. Institutionally speaking, this is what I hope the University of Pennsylvania can serve as for me, a transcending mechanism to aid my efforts towards my dreams.
Relating to Penn with a general anecdote is that I have a Quaker background in my family tree, though I am aware Benjamin Franklin and George Whitefield are the founders, I am related to William Penn by marriage. Another anecdote of my family history is my relation to Paul revere as he is my grandfather of eight generations past, my mother actually has a piece of his wife’s clothing in her possession which she holds dear to her heart. The piece is said to be