| GOAL DIMENSIONS | Near Term Goals (Fall ‘21 & 2021-22) | Longer Term Goals (2022-2025+) |
| PERSONAL | My personal goal for the Fall of 2021 is to improve myself in order to become more emotionally healthy. This is through starting counseling through the school and working on the areas of personality and social interaction I struggle with. To be more outwardly social, my freshman year of college was not the most pleasant due to a lack of social interaction. This was accounted for by covid mostly, but outside out an academic setting; I am a shy person. I know how to talk about school related things with my peers but when it comes to relating everyday “teen” life, I become very socially awkward. I want to improve on this and be able to share my personality in the classroom outside of it. I think this would improve my interactions overall and school and help me to continue building new relationships with my peers. | I think a longer term, personal goal for me would be to get more in tune with my writing and actually compiling something together. I am very big on journaling, but I struggle to write full form pieces. I think this comes with the lack of creativity I find myself having lately, and the fact I struggle with consistent thought. I will jump a million different directions before focusing down to my main point. This is something I struggle with in my personal writing and I would tremendously like to improve. Not only for the idea that I will be happier with the art I create, but it will also translate to my writing in the classroom. People who journal more often are the ones who have an easier time when it comes to brainstorming, outline, and rough drafts. |
| EXTRACURRICULAR | Extracurricularly, I want to be more present in the clubs that I have already chosen to be part of. SIgning up last year did not translate or reflect how many meetings I actually attended. I think I need to hold myself more accountable this year in terms of attending club meetings and being present. In turn, I think this will help me more with my personal goals also. Meeting new people in the clubs I have joined automatically puts me in the position of having something in common with everyone else. We all joined the club because we like what it’s about, right? How could it be difficult to meet more people through this? | A longer term goal for me extracurricularly would be to start to write for the school newspaper. I think my hesitance to start this right away comes from a lack of confidence in my work. I think improving on my writing, and continuing to write will help me get over this irrational fear. I also want to set the goal for myself to enter something into the annual UNE magazine that is issued out twice a year. Although it may seem small, it would be the biggest platform my writing has been given before. |
| ACADEMIC | I want to be able to pass my STATS120 course this fall semester. I had to drop the course last year due to being close to failing. Math is something that is a foreign language to me, I am someone who loves literature and arts. Although I struggle with math, some of my failing comes from my personal attitude towards it also. If I find I am struggling with a subject I don’t particularly like, my consistency of effort drops. If I apply myself more, as I seem to have a really great professor this year, I think I can exceed my expectations. I would ideally want to receive a B or B+ in this course by the end of the semester. My other goal for this semester in general would be to make the dean’s list by the end. This is something I was not able to do last year as I had a lot of personal struggles throughout the year that affected my academic performance. I think with the personal goal I have set for myself in getting counseling from UNE, I will be able to attain this goal. | My biggest goal for the year would be to maintain (and reach) a GPA of at least 3.4. This would be an increase for me from my current 3.0 status. I don’t want to set this higher because I don’t want to give myself an unrealistic standard to meet. I know that life will happen throughout this year and it will change my course that I am on right now. I think setting something realistic as a .4 increase is something doable for my self expectations. Overall, if I do meet that goal and exceed it, the highest standard I would possibly expect out of myself at this moment would be a 3.5. |
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