Blog 3

I was very skeptical about this personality test and if it would actually be accurate, but it described me perfectly. I scored high on neuroticism, high on extraversion, high on openness, average on agreeableness, and average on conscientiousness. Scoring high on neuroticism did not surprise me at all since I am an extremely sensitive person and have been all my life. I have been stuck in a really depressive mood lately and I find it hard to pull myself out of it. An example of this would be my family making jokes about me, but I take them to heart and get extremely upset. I will even start to cry at points when they are all laughing. I also find this to be the case with finding something upsetting in anything that I do lately. My depression is worse since I am a neuroticism type of person I believe. I also scored high on extraversion, which kind of surprised me and did not at the same time. When my depression gets bad, like it is now, I feel as if I am not outgoing and would just like to be left alone. I would rather sleep, which has become my way of escaping this year, than be around others/doing fun things. On the other hand this does not surprise me since I am generally this type of person any other time. An example of why I scored high on extraversion would be when I get around new people I love to talk and joke around. Another example of this would be the fact that I am on executive board for an amazing cause and having to be outgoing in order to have the courage to reach out to others to get sponsorships. My final score that was high was openness, which did not surprise me at all either. I feel as if I am a very open person and this is on of my character traits I have always had. An example of this would be me looking into conspiracy theories ALL the time and trying to expand the way I see things in life. Another example is when my brother came out to me last year and I did not feel any different towards him. Many people do not have an open mind about this and with my openness, I just see it as love. The first thing I scored average on was agreeableness and this opened my eyes to how stubborn and competitive I truly am. I thought I was only competitive towards sports, but I am not. I thought I was mildly stubborn and truly only stubborn when you caught me in a bad mood, but once again, I am was wrong. I am a very trusting and agreeable person, which I already knew. An example of me being competitive would be the competitions I would play into when it came to grades with my siblings and I. This competition carried into college, but has since stopped. An example of me being extremely stubborn would be me thinking I am right on which route to take when going home with my husband and heavily suggesting to him that I picked the right one that would take the least amount of time. I am barely right. I also scored average on conscientiousness, which also opened my eyes. I did not realize how easy it is for me to push things off to reach my goals until now. I am a very dependable person though and have decent organizational skills. An example of me pushing work off would have to be my school work this year. I am always tired and mentally exhausted from everything that is going on in my life that I push my homework off to the very last minute. I have already made steps to fixing this problem though. Overall, this test allowed me to better understand myself and gave me a reality check (which was highly needed).

Blog 2

I have many life values that have pushed me towards my future career choice. Some of them include motivation, compassion, optimism, and strong work ethic. My future career choice is to become a doctor and in order for me to be a great fit I have to stay true to these values despite both the good and bad experiences. In high school I was told I would never be able to get into a university and would never be able to make it as far as medical school. Community college was told to me as my best option in order to get some type of education. After this was said to me, I used this as motivation to keep pushing forward in the chase of my dreams. Compassion has always been a huge life value for me since I was younger. I have had multiple family members that suffer from neurological conditions and watching them in the state that they were in truly drove me to become the compassionate person I am today. I have always been very optimistic through all the hardships in my life. Almost a year ago my grandfather had a heart attack and they told him he wouldn’t survive much longer past that, but eight months later he has improved in health. I remained thinking positive that he would recover and be able to witness more milestones in my life. I have had to have a strong work ethic through all of my schooling in order to achieve my career goal. I developed and made this life value because of people in my past telling me I wouldn’t be able to excel through a four year school. My work ethic has gotten me to my senior year of college and will carry me into medical school once I graduate. Higher education was instilled into me since middle school and my mom talked about how I needed to achieve bigger things in life than my previous family has done. I also wanted to continue onto a higher education because I have always dreamed about becoming a doctor and saving/impacting others lives. My mom was my biggest supporter and motivator when it came time for me to go into college. She reminds me daily on why I am in school and to never give up on my aspirations. My teachers doubting me pushed me to continue onto a higher education and to prove them all wrong.