It was a great day sun was shining very few clouds in the sky, driving on the highway to meet my sister Nicole for an interview at her college in Naperville. When I was pulling up to her college I drive past a ton of expensive houses and kids roaming the streets going to their next class. I pull in and she is sitting there waiting for me I get out of my car and greet her I walk into her dorm room and I get a big wiff of perfume and girl products in the air to mask the smell of a sweaty soccer bag. I look around her dorm room and just realize all the little things how small it is, the mass amount of items that are stuffed in her room, and how her and her roommate have horrible shades to block out the sun.
As I begin the interview I ask her how she would describe herself. She responds with "I am someone who is hardworking, and tries to stay motivated." I feel like this describes her in a good way because if she did not have that mentality to keep going at it to keep working hard to something that she wants, she would not have gone to North Central to play soccer if it was not for her mentality at getting better at soccer in High School. Most importantly her grades are amazing she is above average for her grades, and she improves each semester with her grades. She is also very motivated because later on in the interview she wants to make a life for herself that is good for her and her family, but she wants to make her parents proud and live a life that our parents did not have growing up.
Nicole mentions that she is shy and likes her alone time when she can get it. This fits her well because she is not that outgoing of a person, she is not the first one to speak up, but when she needs to she will. When she is with her friends she is not shy just as anyone would not be shy and likes to be the first one to start a conversation, but she would rather not talk in class and would rather listen to answers and questions. Nicole and I are very similar in a way of how we are shy, and we like our alone time. It is essential for Nicole to get alone time because her life in college is very hectic with practice, workouts, classes, and being with her roommate for almost 15 hours a day. It gives her a chance to recoup from a long day, and it gives her a chance to think to herself without anybody getting in the way. I do not feel the same way as her because I don't play a sport in college, and I do not have a roommate because I go to community college.
She also mentions that she wants to make our parents proud and provide a life where she is happy and a life that our parents did not have growing up. She is a family orientated person, and would go out of her way to be with family because it is the most important thing to her. Our parents growing up only completed two years of college before starting work, they were not able to complete college because they had to help their family out with their mom and dads having health issues and paying for that. My sister and I want to finish college and complete all four years for them because they are able to provide us a life that they did not have. She is making them proud by playing soccer in college and finishing college and going into a masters program to become an orthopedic therapist.
After college Nicole wants to get into a masters program to obtain her masters in orthopedic therapy. She told me that she has researched it and looked into it ever since she was in high school and the moment she heard about it she wanted to pursue it. She loves working with kids and our cousins have newborn kids that are five and under, and every chance she gets she wants to go over to their house and be with them because she loves to be with them and play with them. Especially because our cousin is a stay at home mom with her husband in the military and she has to deal with five kids running around and yelling all day Nicole will help her out for most of the day over the summer when she is not working, or doing anything. Being an orthopedic therapist would mean the world to her, and it would be something that she would love doing for a long time without getting bored or old of it fast.
I asked Nicole "If you could interview one person who would it be?" She responded "One of our grandpas." She would love to interview one of our grandpas because we were never able to talk to them due to them passing away before we were born. She said it would be interesting to hear what there life was like growing up and the wise words that would come from them, and everything that we would learn from them. She would like to know interesting stories about his life, and about our parents. She also said how she would love to get to know them better and to not hear stories about them, and to actually talk to them face to face.
As of right now, Nicole is finishing up her four years at North Central and is applying for a masters program after she finishes schooling she wants to become an orthopedic therapist where she will help kids who have limited motor abilities or have lost them in a tragic event. Nicole has yet to accomplish her biggest goal and when she does, I know that she will not only accomplish it, but she will exceed her expectations and our expectations. She will do this because she is hardworking and is focused on the task at hand each and everyday. Even though sometimes she says she might slack off and not do everything to the best of her abilities. She said that is is a learning curve, and she knows that she is learning from her mistakes, and not taking advantage of all the resources that are available, or were available to her.
All in all, Nicole is a hardworking woman who is very motivated at what she wants to become, and to what she is doing. She has her eyes set on something and she is going to do it no matter the obstacles in her way. Everybody that knows her knows that she loves to work with kids and is going to become an orthopedic therapist when she finishes college and completes her masters program. She is never going to put anybody down in what she does or says she loves to meet new people and get to know them even if she is shy, but even after a long day she loves to get her alone time when she gets the chance in between all of the chaos of classes, practices, workouts, and being with her roommate all day. She just needs somewhere to retreat after a long day and her alone time is where she gets to escape for a little bit.
Works Cited
Personal Interview 10, Sept. 2019