Illinois State University Student Strengths And Weaknesses

81.3% of the students who attended Illinois State University (ISU) for the fall 2013 semester, returned for their second year of college. This statistic alone shows that ISU is a great University to attend. In this essay I discuss why I feel that ISU is a good fit for me and for what I want to accomplish in college, my academic strengths and weaknesses, and how playing sports in high school affected my academic performance positively. I feel that ISU is a good fit for me personally because ISU has a great program for finance, which will be my major. On top of that, I have visited the campus and really enjoyed how even though the campus has 20,000+ students, it doesn’t feel that large. All the buildings where classes are held are very close together around the quad, which is ideal. Another thing I would enjoy about ISU is how there are so many intramural sports to play. I really enjoy playing basketball, so that would be a great thing to help me remain active and healthy after high school.
My main academic weaknesses include: being a perfectionist, sometimes procrastinating assignments, and becoming bored in classes I don’t enjoy as much. I feel that being a perfectionist can help me, but it also hurts me in many ways as well. The upside is that I feel as if I must have all “A’s” in my classes. This sets a great goal for me to achieve. It hurts me in the fact that I will second guess myself and take more time than necessary on certain things. I usually don’t procrastinate, but if it’s an assignment I think is unnecessary and it’s assigned towards the end of a semester, my natural reaction is to push it off. Finally, if I’m in a class that I don’t enjoy going to, I become bored. When I become bored, it can make me not pay attention as well as I should and not perform as well because of