Careers in Writing Arts Self-Evaluation
1. List your personal strengths and weaknesses
Weaknesses: lazy, poor time management skills, Don’t handle stress well, almost always late.
Strengths: Responsible, creative, cooperative, not afraid of being the leader
2. List important or related courses you have taken
Courses in progress: The Writer’s Mind
Writing, Research, and Technology
Special Topic: Careers in Writing Arts
Completed Courses: Intro to Writing Arts
Writing Poetry
Intro to Advertising
Writing Children’s Stories
Creative Writing I
3. What is your major and specialization? What is your overall cumulative GPA? In your major? How many credits have you take in your major?
My major is Writing Arts with a creative writing concentration. My overall cumulative GPA is a 3.718. I have completed 76 credits and have 16 in progress. Of those 92 total credits, 22 are Writing Arts related.
4. Do you have a minor or coordinate major? Explain.
I am a Visual Art minor. This is only my second semester and I am still completing my core classes so I haven’t decided on a concentration yet. However, I do believe that my 3D work is better than my 2D work.
5. List hobbies, activities, and interests, especially those related to your major.
I enjoy reading, particularly fictional stories of the romantic comedy and supernatural variety. I also enjoy writing descriptive fiction/non-fiction pieces and poetry. I recently joined the Avant Club (Rowan’s literary magazine) and I absolutely love sitting around with fellow writers reading, interpreting and critiquing our peer’s work. I enjoy doodling, working with clay, painting, book binding, and traveling. I will sit down and play a few notes on my piano or violin when the mood hits me. I don’t know enough knitting or crocheting terms to figure out patterns but I can make pretty nice scarfs and blankets. I can’t drive in silence so I’m usually blasting music and singing along when I drive. I dance a lot, usually spontaneously in both private and public venues. I consider myself a fruit ninja and a mustache connoisseur. I also enjoy thinking. I think about everything that happened, could happen, should happen, never happened, can’t happen, and so on. I spend a lot of time thinking while I drive, while in the shower, in my bed, anywhere that there is a window I can stare out of, etc. Cheering people up, giving advice, and making people laugh are also activities I enjoy.
6. List all of the offices you have held in clubs or writing associations
In high school I was Concert Mistress of the string ensemble, 2nd Chair in the orchestra and pit orchestra and Captain of the drill team. I was in many clubs in high school but did not hold office in them. I am in the Avant Club on campus but I do not hold office.
7. Do you hold any special licenses?
I have a license to kill. That’s actually not true. But I’m hopefully going to get my boating license this spring.
8. List special skills.
I feel as though I'm good at a lot of things but not really great at anything (except writing (Aside from that last comment, I'm usually a modest person)). I am told I have a calming effect on people. I’m a good listener and I can usually come up with good advice. I can make people laugh. I can make a lot of silly faces and play a few songs upside down on the piano. I can play various instruments and easily pick up a tune. I'm not the greatest artist but I am good at sketching and I can write. I can twirl a fire baton without catching my hair on fire. I can also drive a boat (parking the boat in the slip is another story) and I can dress myself.
9. List the types of writing you do the most.
Definitely creative writing. I write a lot of poems and vignettes most of which are non-fiction or loosely based on non-fiction events from my life. I also write a lot of papers and blog posts but that’s because I have to for class. I don’t mind though, it’s good writing practice.
10. List awards, honors, academic or otherwise.
At my 8th grade graduation, I was given the writing award. The teachers collaborated on who got what awards and out of approximately 120 kids, my writing stood out the most. In high school, I was in the HTHS Music Honor Society, National Honors Society, and National Latin Honors Society. Three out of four years, I was invited to the HTHS Academic Dinner for students who maintained honor status grades each marking period. At graduation, I received the HTHS Outstanding Student award and performance art scholarship along with the President’s Award for Outstanding Academic Excellence and the personal achievement award. I was offered the opportunity to join the Bantivoglio honor society at Rowan. Rowan granted me the Trustees Scholarship. I recently had a piece accepted into Avant. I was also offered a place in the Sigma Alpha Lambda Honors Society for Rowan University.
11. List special programs in which you have participated.
I participated in my high school’s madrigals, sweet adelines, contemporary, chamber, and concert choirs, string ensemble, pit orchestra, orchestra, stage crew, musical, one acts, drill team, blood drive committee, interact club, and crew team. I was a girl scout for 8 years. In college, I joined the women’s ultimate Frisbee team for one semester and now I am part of the Avant Club.
12. List Charity Work.
I was a girl scout for about 8 years. I participated in Relay for Life (an overnight camp-out/walk for cancer awareness) 5 years in a row and was part of my school's Interact Club. In Interact, we held fundraisers such as Pedal for Progress where we collected, disassembled, and shipped bikes to third world countries. We also had fundraisers such as Pennies for Patients for leukemia victims. Every Tuesday, the club went to Fellowship House in Camden to tutor children grades K-5. I also was a member of the Blood Drive committee. I’ve donated platelets once and blood three times but had to stop due to diabetes and a low platelet count. The summer before ninth grade, I spent an afternoon at a rec center for the physically handicapped and was a ball girl for two women playing tennis in wheelchairs. We had an Empty Bowls fundraiser twice while I was in high school as well. Empty Bowls in an event where students, faculty and community members gathered in the art room to craft bowls out of clay. Then the students, faculty and community members glazed the bowls. The art teacher fired them and then they were sold at a big dinner in the cafeteria where you buy a ticket for 5 dollars and with that you can pick any bowl that you like and get unlimited food. Food was donated by local businesses and residents. Any left over food at the end of the night was donated to the local soup kitchen and all proceeds from the dinner was given to the New Jersey Food Bank. As both an art student and a member of the National Honor Society, I was a very involved in the project.
13. List any scholarships which you have received
I received the Allen William Coutinho Memorial Scholarship (for performing arts),
Outstanding Student Award
Rowan University Trustees Scholarship
Rowan University Grant
14. List any key projects and your role in them
For the Empty Bowls Soup Project as mentioned above, I made and glazed bowls in my art class. I continued to make bowls during my study hall period and came back on the weekend when we invited community members to come help out since they couldn't come during the school day. I cranked out about 4-5 bowls on days when I had both art and study hall. In total I believe we had approx. 750 bowls for the event. I donated a large pot of soup. The National Honors Society used this event as their community service requirement so at the event I helped serve the soup and keep the tables clean. I also called out the ticket numbers during our raffle. At the end of the night, I helped clean everything up.
15. List Any jobs you have had
Waitress at Crystal Lake Diner February 2008-October 2008, Summer 2009
Took orders, served food, held conversations with customers, helped seat and bus tables
Hostess at Outback Steakhouse December 2009-present, promoted to Takeaway Server November 2010, promoted to Server November 2011.
Take orders, box food, customer service/hospitality, answer phones, seat tables, clean the bathroom, keep the kitchen stocked, run out to the store if necessary.
16. Describe the kinds of employment you seek
a. A creative job where I don’t have to do a lot of research and data analysis
b. A job with security and longevity
c. A job that involves traveling
17. List three people who can recommend you and how you have been associated with them.
a. Martin Bouchard, my father
b. Jonathan Pena, my sister’s fiancé
c. Ray (last name is unknown), my friend and former boss
1. List your personal strengths and weaknesses
Weaknesses: lazy, poor time management skills, Don’t handle stress well, almost always late.
Strengths: Responsible, creative, cooperative, not afraid of being the leader
2. List important or related courses you have taken
Courses in progress: The Writer’s Mind
Writing, Research, and Technology
Special Topic: Careers in Writing Arts
Completed Courses: Intro to Writing Arts
Writing Poetry
Intro to Advertising
Writing Children’s Stories
Creative Writing I
3. What is your major and specialization? What is your overall cumulative GPA? In your major? How many credits have you take in your major?
My major is Writing Arts with a creative writing concentration. My overall cumulative GPA is a 3.718. I have completed 76 credits and have 16 in progress. Of those 92 total credits, 22 are Writing Arts related.
4. Do you have a minor or coordinate major? Explain.
I am a Visual Art minor. This is only my second semester and I am still completing my core classes so I haven’t decided on a concentration yet. However, I do believe that my 3D work is better than my 2D work.
5. List hobbies, activities, and interests, especially those related to your major.
I enjoy reading, particularly fictional stories of the romantic comedy and supernatural variety. I also enjoy writing descriptive fiction/non-fiction pieces and poetry. I recently joined the Avant Club (Rowan’s literary magazine) and I absolutely love sitting around with fellow writers reading, interpreting and critiquing our peer’s work. I enjoy doodling, working with clay, painting, book binding, and traveling. I will sit down and play a few notes on my piano or violin when the mood hits me. I don’t know enough knitting or crocheting terms to figure out patterns but I can make pretty nice scarfs and blankets. I can’t drive in silence so I’m usually blasting music and singing along when I drive. I dance a lot, usually spontaneously in both private and public venues. I consider myself a fruit ninja and a mustache connoisseur. I also enjoy thinking. I think about everything that happened, could happen, should happen, never happened, can’t happen, and so on. I spend a lot of time thinking while I drive, while in the shower, in my bed, anywhere that there is a window I can stare out of, etc. Cheering people up, giving advice, and making people laugh are also activities I enjoy.
6. List all of the offices you have held in clubs or writing associations
In high school I was Concert Mistress of the string ensemble, 2nd Chair in the orchestra and pit orchestra and Captain of the drill team. I was in many clubs in high school but did not hold office in them. I am in the Avant Club on campus but I do not hold office.
7. Do you hold any special licenses?
I have a license to kill. That’s actually not true. But I’m hopefully going to get my boating license this spring.
8. List special skills.
I feel as though I'm good at a lot of things but not really great at anything (except writing (Aside from that last comment, I'm usually a modest person)). I am told I have a calming effect on people. I’m a good listener and I can usually come up with good advice. I can make people laugh. I can make a lot of silly faces and play a few songs upside down on the piano. I can play various instruments and easily pick up a tune. I'm not the greatest artist but I am good at sketching and I can write. I can twirl a fire baton without catching my hair on fire. I can also drive a boat (parking the boat in the slip is another story) and I can dress myself.
9. List the types of writing you do the most.
Definitely creative writing. I write a lot of poems and vignettes most of which are non-fiction or loosely based on non-fiction events from my life. I also write a lot of papers and blog posts but that’s because I have to for class. I don’t mind though, it’s good writing practice.
10. List awards, honors, academic or otherwise.
At my 8th grade graduation, I was given the writing award. The teachers collaborated on who got what awards and out of approximately 120 kids, my writing stood out the most. In high school, I was in the HTHS Music Honor Society, National Honors Society, and National Latin Honors Society. Three out of four years, I was invited to the HTHS Academic Dinner for students who maintained honor status grades each marking period. At graduation, I received the HTHS Outstanding Student award and performance art scholarship along with the President’s Award for Outstanding Academic Excellence and the personal achievement award. I was offered the opportunity to join the Bantivoglio honor society at Rowan. Rowan granted me the Trustees Scholarship. I recently had a piece accepted into Avant. I was also offered a place in the Sigma Alpha Lambda Honors Society for Rowan University.
11. List special programs in which you have participated.
I participated in my high school’s madrigals, sweet adelines, contemporary, chamber, and concert choirs, string ensemble, pit orchestra, orchestra, stage crew, musical, one acts, drill team, blood drive committee, interact club, and crew team. I was a girl scout for 8 years. In college, I joined the women’s ultimate Frisbee team for one semester and now I am part of the Avant Club.
12. List Charity Work.
I was a girl scout for about 8 years. I participated in Relay for Life (an overnight camp-out/walk for cancer awareness) 5 years in a row and was part of my school's Interact Club. In Interact, we held fundraisers such as Pedal for Progress where we collected, disassembled, and shipped bikes to third world countries. We also had fundraisers such as Pennies for Patients for leukemia victims. Every Tuesday, the club went to Fellowship House in Camden to tutor children grades K-5. I also was a member of the Blood Drive committee. I’ve donated platelets once and blood three times but had to stop due to diabetes and a low platelet count. The summer before ninth grade, I spent an afternoon at a rec center for the physically handicapped and was a ball girl for two women playing tennis in wheelchairs. We had an Empty Bowls fundraiser twice while I was in high school as well. Empty Bowls in an event where students, faculty and community members gathered in the art room to craft bowls out of clay. Then the students, faculty and community members glazed the bowls. The art teacher fired them and then they were sold at a big dinner in the cafeteria where you buy a ticket for 5 dollars and with that you can pick any bowl that you like and get unlimited food. Food was donated by local businesses and residents. Any left over food at the end of the night was donated to the local soup kitchen and all proceeds from the dinner was given to the New Jersey Food Bank. As both an art student and a member of the National Honor Society, I was a very involved in the project.
13. List any scholarships which you have received
I received the Allen William Coutinho Memorial Scholarship (for performing arts),
Outstanding Student Award
Rowan University Trustees Scholarship
Rowan University Grant
14. List any key projects and your role in them
For the Empty Bowls Soup Project as mentioned above, I made and glazed bowls in my art class. I continued to make bowls during my study hall period and came back on the weekend when we invited community members to come help out since they couldn't come during the school day. I cranked out about 4-5 bowls on days when I had both art and study hall. In total I believe we had approx. 750 bowls for the event. I donated a large pot of soup. The National Honors Society used this event as their community service requirement so at the event I helped serve the soup and keep the tables clean. I also called out the ticket numbers during our raffle. At the end of the night, I helped clean everything up.
15. List Any jobs you have had
Waitress at Crystal Lake Diner February 2008-October 2008, Summer 2009
Took orders, served food, held conversations with customers, helped seat and bus tables
Hostess at Outback Steakhouse December 2009-present, promoted to Takeaway Server November 2010, promoted to Server November 2011.
Take orders, box food, customer service/hospitality, answer phones, seat tables, clean the bathroom, keep the kitchen stocked, run out to the store if necessary.
16. Describe the kinds of employment you seek
a. A creative job where I don’t have to do a lot of research and data analysis
b. A job with security and longevity
c. A job that involves traveling
17. List three people who can recommend you and how you have been associated with them.
a. Martin Bouchard, my father
b. Jonathan Pena, my sister’s fiancé
c. Ray (last name is unknown), my friend and former boss
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