Student Profile: Stuff About Amy
my major | college life | who I am | my spirituality
>I kept changing my major back and forth. I loved biology in high school so I wanted to be a doctor. Then I switched to biochemistry, but I couldn’t handle the chemistry, so I went back to biology.
It can be tough being in biology because you’re in it with a lot of premeds and they’re very smart. We’re graded on a bell curve, which puts you at a great disadvantage.
If you want to do well in biology, having a good memory helps a lot and you must have the ability to survive on very little sleep!
My Life in university:
>It was most difficult adjusting to the workload of university, trying to learn how to study properly… I don’t think I ever got a grasp on it.
Coming to university, I was no longer the almost straight A student I was before I came to university… and it really didn’t matter. The greatest lesson I learned here is that there is more to life than just getting my degree. I started to spend more time doing things that had significance.
I really enjoy learning and found my courses very interesting. I enjoy my friendships and the regularity of life — I knew my responsibility was to go to school, study, do my work. I knew what was expected of me. I also enjoyed my profs who knew how to teach and relate to other people.
What I didn’t enjoy so much was the lack of sleep, exam anxiety and bad professors who don’t know how to teach!
More about Me:
>When nobody’s watching, I’m a lazy procrastinator.
>I know my purpose and came to discover it through a process. When I started not doing as well in university in spite of all my studying I began to realize that I could spend my whole life studying and yet still not necessarily get any better grades. I started to realize that life was more than just my grades, degree or some future job.
I began to see life as more than just accomplishments or goals that needed to be reached (not that goals are bad) but I began seeing that life boils down to relationships. It’s not what you know or how much you know that matters when you are out there in the real world, but it’s about how you go about utilizing the knowledge you do have and how you relate to everyone in life.
>I dream of making a significant difference in people’s lives in every nation of the world.
Once someone challenged me to do something that I was not even willing to consider doing initially. It made me think. That person left a deep impression on my life.
The most difficult thing I’ve ever done is choose a career that wasn’t related to my major. And tell my dad about it.
Describe your room: A mess. A total mess. Chaos.
I’d hate to be without fruit and veggies. And I love good homemade soup!
Spare time? You’ll find me hiking or climbing up some mountain.
How Amy’s university experience taught her about the spiritual side of life . . .
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