My Hobby Essay

When I was younger, my mom would rent out our basement room to single people she would work with in the military. I personally loved it because it meant that there were more people around I could harass into playing with me. However, I was always confused when I would hear my grandparents berate my mother on letting “those people” into our home. I remained confused, until I asked my mother what they meant, and why they were so angry. My mother described to me how “old fashioned” my grandparents…

reflection of our well-being, which makes a big part of our everyday’s life. It affects our lives everyday, like our success or health. It also defines how we react to surroundings. While it can have both positive and negative impact on our living, in my opinion, everyone should pursue happiness to a certain point. It allows us to become a better person, because we are led to improve our personality in many different ways. Pursuing happiness gives us goals and accomplishing goals makes us…

Commitments can help one achieve their goals. The commitment I made to myself of only riding my bike when I am completely done with assignments has increased my time in quadrant two greatly. Along with the commitment pertaining to my hobbies, the commitment of my 32-day challenge going to office hours has improved my learning greatly. I use to go into my math professor’s office hours with a few questions that were fairly broad based topics but now after fully understanding each topic leading…

Throughout my life, I have had a variety of hobbies; I would become deeply invested in a hobby for a few months, but suddenly I would become uninterested. When I was younger, I danced; ballet and tap practices would fill my nights, but that did not last for long. Ultimately, I knew that driving there every night strained our schedules and I did not have passion for it anymore, so I discarded that hobby. After that, I became interested in sports; I devoted my time to basketball camps and pick-up…

Principles and fundamentals can be found with every sport, activity, or hobby a person does. It helps people understand the basics; essentially creating a foundation for them to easily follow so they can produce or evolve in their desired sport, activity, or hobby. Principles are important because it allows anyone to have success despite their prior experience. A good example are the basic principles of strength training and conditioning. Whether a person is a recreational weight trainer or…

be a friend to everyone, many factors have shaped my life and Identity, mostly my friends, family, education and interests. The largest factor that has impacted my identity is my friends and family. They have majorly influenced my choices personality and hobbies. One way my friends have influenced my hobbies is by introducing me to new games, Such as TF2, or leisure activities like drawing. They also influence my personality, if it weren’t for my friends I wouldn’t be as much of an…

throughout your life. I have gotten to know Seth Ford briefly over the past two years. Some characteristic that I’ve picked up on include, never quitting and a team first mentality. Throughout my interview with Seth I obtained information relating to his family, school life, and his personal interests and hobbies. At 16 years old, Seth is the youngest of seven children in his family. Seth was born February 26, 2001 in Devon Forest, South Carolina. From there he will have moved 3 times to end…

ourselves, Mary said something that automatically caught my attention while listening to her speak about herself, “I’m from Chicago”, I knew from this statement alone we were going to be friends, simply because Chicago is such a laid back place; therefore showing just how relaxed this interview would be. Many hobbies Mary enjoys doing are often what others would consider normal. Some we may be familiar with and some not so much. Spelunking is one hobby some of you may never have heard of…

This alone encourages me to go beyond the surface level of brainstorming for my coming art pieces and motivates me to look critically at the art around me to possibly understand what its creator was experiencing at that moment in time. Attending the opening reception has opened my eyes to think deeper when I need inspiration for my next project. Overall, the reception was rather inspiring if you could get past the lengthy speech accompanied by microphone…

Songwriting Vs. Drawing I enter my room in the basement, sit at my desk and start writing down lyric ideas for a song that would convey my feelings the way I want. Later, I switch and grab my sketchbook from the bookshelf on my left. I start sketching away some characters I have made up. These are two hobbies I enjoy taking time out of my day to do. Even though they are two completely different things, they have quite a few similarities that stand out. When I think about songwriting,…