Crystal Ruiz

PERSONAL STATEMENT It’s my senior year and I will be class of 2011! Just thinking about the day I will graduate freaks me out I mean just like many other people I am very excited but the reason to why I am so nervous is simply because I don’t know what it is that I would like to study or do when I attend college. As I look around at all my other classmates they all seem to know exactly what it is they want to do, and I just wonder how do you know exactly what you want when there are so many things out there. For me it’s very had to decide on one thing and narrow down my options. I really don’t know why I am making things harder than they really have to be, but I wouldn’t want to waste my time on something that in the end I’m not even interested in, I’d rather get paid less and do something I love then get paid well and work in something I hate.The reason you should choose me to go to this institute is because I feel I can learn a lot from this and I can actually use all the things I learn for when I’m done with high school an go to college. I have used all the things I learned at the first conference I went to last year and I was amazed b all that I learned and got to experience. I know if I go this year in July all of the things I learn can be very beneficial for when I’m done with High School which is only a year and I’m sure it will go by fast. I am a very smart student if I actually put my all into something I have been doing my best to get grades all throughout high school and if I put my mind into anything I am sure I can achieve it.Last year when I went to the leadership conference in golden, the one thing I will always carry with me is when we went to the high ropes, I was so scared to get on the pole they had but I felt like “okay how many times I can actually say I was able to do this” so I got up and literally I was so scared I looked around and people were just looking at me I was so scared and nervous I just wanted to get back down and never get back up. Although that’s how I felt I had many people encouraging me to just go for it, it was nice having their support and all the other students being there for me. I jumped and I felt like I accomplished something so great, after I jumped off the pole I felt like anything I wanted to do there is nothing that can stop me I can really reach any goal I set for myself. Having that feeling within me was a really great thing, because never have I ever felt that in me before. I feel like many students should have the opportunity to feel what I did and I would like go again and so what I can learn so I can tell my friends about my experience and they could learn something from that. I feel this program has made me a leader because before I used to always fade in the background and be a follower, but now I can be myself and show everyone the type of person that I really am and I am very grateful for that. This conference will be an enormous experience for me and I am sure that these will be memories I will have with me throughout my whole life. I hope I get chosen to go and I am really looking forward to able to be a part of this again for a second year and meet many more new people and get outside of my comfort zone. I hope to hear back from you.