That Final Required Essay for My Scholarship
- 2 minsI am now approaching my last year as an undergraduate here in the Ateneo. As I look back, I see how much I’ve grown; from the very young and naive girl who started out with no previously known friends in Ateneo at all to an independent lady who has come to find a second family in the comfort of my friends. Four years in this institution changed my life. My Ateneo education taught me core values on leadership and service that I believe made me a better version of myself. One more year and I get to make a decision with where I would direct my life to be.
For my senior year, I took overload semesters. I failed a subject during my junior year so I had to retake it first semester of my senior year. In addition, I was in a basic English class during my freshman year so I had to take a supposed sophomore summer course during the second semester. Senior year was quite difficult for me so I decided to forego joining the table tennis varsity team for another UAAP tournament stint. I continue to train to continue to reinforce my skills but decided not to be team captain because I wasn’t competing in the most significant tournament, the UAAP. I decided to set my priorities toward my academics with a very loaded semester. I joined my home organization Ateneo Electronics and Computer Engineering Society (AECES), Ateneo Comelec and the Rizal Library Ambassadors. As much as I wanted to step up and lead in a project or two, I failed to do so because I was just too busy. Still, I did some volunteering in projects and joining the core team, hence had some service experiences. On the contrary, I had a quite limited experience in leadership. For my senior year, it is through the classroom that I learned quite a lot about service and leadership. My philosophy and theology classes have equipped me with valuable lessons in life. The values of cura personalis and magis have encouraged me not to be a person who is self-centered but rather to be a person-for-others. Ateneo’s holistic formation has molded me to make use of all my learning not just those from my academics but also from other extra-curricular activities as well. Ateneo showed me how much I truly love learning.
Jane Arleth dela Cruz at the UAAP Table Tennis Tournament S76
Summing all my experiences this senior year, I have decided to go to graduate school and pursue a master’s degree in either electronics engineering or information technology after graduation. First, I would apply for academic scholarships for graduate school. If I would be unsuccessful, I would apply for an athletic scholarship. I still have two remaining years to play in the UAAP tournament, if given the opportunity that would be two years of athletic scholarship.