How well do you know yourself?

Answer the following questions in one thorough paragraph on this form

1. Where do you see yourself in September of next year? How do you plan to
get there? I see myself attending Oakwood College studying to get my BS in
Mathematics. I plan on getting to that point by keeping my grades up and
making sure I do not get into any trouble up until I start school.

2. What kind of life do you want to have in the future- 5, 10, 20 years from now?
In 5 years i plan to have graduated college with my BS in mathematics and my
Master’s in Electrical Engineering and will be rapidly job searching after college. In
10 years I hope to have bought myself an apartment and have a steady job for
myself. In 20 years I plan on having a family of my own being happily married with
an even better job at that point.
3. What do you think you need to do to make that life a reality? I think that I
need to become a hermit and live in the library and study all day and night.
Not let anybody distract me from doing my work.

4. Why do you think this is what you need to do? I think that is what I need to
do because most of my family members were not successful in college
because they let their friends pressure them into “Having fun”.

5. What skills, talents, or strengths do you think you have that will help you
develop this kind of life? I think that humor is one of my strengths and I
think that will help me lighten up the mood.

6. What skills, talents, or strengths do you think you need to develop to create
this kind of life? I think that I need to increase my leadership skills to help me
to reach the lifestyle that I want to be at. My perseverance needs to be on a
whole other level.

Now watch the YouTube video in class:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=474&v=29tJAgc54RA

1. What is your personal capital? What are your strengths, skills, passion,
purpose your problem-solving ability? I believe that my strengths are
problem solving as well as adding humor to most appropriate situations. I
think I am able to lighten the mood when the atmosphere gets kind of heavy.
I do not believe I have any passions at this point in my life.

2. What is your intellectual capital? What is your expertise in one or two

subjects or skills? (These do not have to be exclusively academic subjects)
I would like to believe that I am a pretty good video game player. My time is spent
playing the game if I’m not doing homework. I also think that I excel in mathematics.

3. How can you gain social and financial capital to accomplish the goals you’ve
established for yourself or to create the kind of life you want to have? I think
 that my social capital will help me accomplish my goals because I have
developed relationships with with people that have jobs in the field that I
would like to go into and would be more than happy to mentor me.

4. If you could do what you do best every day, what would that be? I would be a
professional video game player and compete in tournaments for money.

Character Strengths Test

Read the following two articles for a rationale behind taking the Character Strengths
test:
https://www.michellemcquaid.com/via-survey-character-strengths/
http://positivepsychologynews.com/news/ryan-niemiec/2010052611161

a. Go to the following site and take the VIA Character Strengths test for
YOUTH!t:
www.viacharacter.org

b. DOWNLOAD YOUR RESULTS - SAVE DOCUMENT IN YOUR GOOGLE FOLDER.