High School Mentorship
I am interested in participating in the Leadership Development Program because I want to be a Mentor once again. I was a mentor for high school freshmen in my senior year, but that year was enough for me to want to do it again. Just being that person who they would ask for help or for information made me feel enlightened in a way, and certainly made me happier because I knew I was positively impacting their life. And I know that mentoring high school freshmen and mentoring college freshmen is different, but I still believe that I can help those incoming students transition to a new chapter of their lives as reassuringly as possible as I did so with my group of high school freshmen.
Not only that, but I want to participate in the Leadership
Development Program because I can still remember how confused and stressed out I was because of all the unknown variables that came into play when I was thinking about what being a UCI student really means. And my experience with the mentor I had when I did Summer Bridge really reassured me and made me believe that I can succeed here. This experience got me excited to be an anteater, and I want to do that for the next class of incoming freshmen. I want to be the one to help them. I want to be the one to help raise their confidence and be a source of information of what they should expect in what will be an exciting year for them.
The skills I am hoping to gain from participating in the Leadership Development Program is enhancing my leadership skills. I want to be able to reinforce valuable leadership lessons and teach someone in an effective manner. By routinely doing this, I believe it can make me work harder to live up to the expectations any mentees may have of me. After all, I can't be expected to advise someone to work hard and do things that I'm not willing to do personally myself. Meaning that by gaining more experience as a mentor and leading someone to become the best that they can, I in return, am also pushing myself to become the best that I can. Also, I believe that a mentor is someone that can and will go the extra mile to help others and to just be a positive influence all around; which is a skill I want to develop. The skill of regularly going the extra mile. To do activities that I may not be comfortable with, but are activities I know that will benefit me in the future.
Not only that, but I want to participate in the Leadership
Development Program because I can still remember how confused and stressed out I was because of all the unknown variables that came into play when I was thinking about what being a UCI student really means. And my experience with the mentor I had when I did Summer Bridge really reassured me and made me believe that I can succeed here. This experience got me excited to be an anteater, and I want to do that for the next class of incoming freshmen. I want to be the one to help them. I want to be the one to help raise their confidence and be a source of information of what they should expect in what will be an exciting year for them.
The skills I am hoping to gain from participating in the Leadership Development Program is enhancing my leadership skills. I want to be able to reinforce valuable leadership lessons and teach someone in an effective manner. By routinely doing this, I believe it can make me work harder to live up to the expectations any mentees may have of me. After all, I can't be expected to advise someone to work hard and do things that I'm not willing to do personally myself. Meaning that by gaining more experience as a mentor and leading someone to become the best that they can, I in return, am also pushing myself to become the best that I can. Also, I believe that a mentor is someone that can and will go the extra mile to help others and to just be a positive influence all around; which is a skill I want to develop. The skill of regularly going the extra mile. To do activities that I may not be comfortable with, but are activities I know that will benefit me in the future.