List and briefly explain how you engage in your hobbies and passions. This section should include any extracurricular activities on or off campus.
Activity: Fitness
Start Date- End Date: Lifetime
Number of hours: 4-7.5
How have you grown from this experience? (300-500 characters): I feel that by pursuing my own personal health and fitness, I have grown in resilience and adaptability. I was raised in an active household, and participated in athletics in high school playing tennis and running track. Moving away from home, I had to decide to make health and fitness a priority in my own life, because when you move to college, health and fitness become your own responsibility, not the responsibility of parents, coaches, etc. This has taught me how to be better at making time for and prioritizing things that are important to me.
Activity: Band
Start Date- End Date: July 2016 - December 2022
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How have you grown from this experience? (300-500 characters): I started band in middle school, and continued to my freshman year of college. Band taught me so many valuable lessons that have made me into the person I am today. I learned how to be punctual, how to communicate with others, the importance of teamwork, how to be dependable, and the importance of self improvement.
Activity: Linguistics
Start Date- End Date: Lifetime
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How have you grown from this experience? (300-500 characters): I have always been interested in other languages, but I've never had any formal training in becoming fluent in another language. I grew up in a largely Spanish-speaking town, so I've been surrounded by a language different from my primary one for as long as I can remember, and would love the opportunity to learn more Spanish. Additionally, my first language was American Sign Language, due in part to major hearing loss as an infant (I would like to add however, that I did grow up speaking English at home, and never progressed to a fluent level of Sign Language). In addition to these languages, I have also grown up around German, primarily at home and at church, and though I lost much of these language skills growing up, I have entirely self-taught myself to a conversational level. I would love to continue learning more about languages, improving upon the ones I have familiarity with, and one day maybe learning a new one.
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