I am taking "Leadership For A Change" out of curiosity. This is my last semester at UIC before I graduate and I am done with all my requirements so I have the freedom to take any class I wish to to fulfill the credits I need to graduate. This class not only fits my very busy schedule, but also sounds very interesting, not to mention that the professor teaching the class happens to be a very amazing person that I took before and was very happy with :) I hope to get a lot out of this class. I want to not only get a good grade but also learn more about myself, achieve goals I have set for myself along my life and learn not to be scared to go after what I want in life. I want to be sure that I am going to do something meaningful with my life that I will not regret and I think this class with help me find out if I am on the right track. I was a very rebellious child when I was little. I always try to get it my way and when someone said "no" to me, I didn't give up that easily. I was a kind of a tomboy, too. Every tree in my neighborhood was to be climbed by me, I had no fears. I liked doing "boy" things and hang out more with the boys; I got along with the boys better than girls. Taking the risk attracted me. Having fun and having a lot of friends was very important to me. Animals and other people fascinated me. I was always around people. My house was always opened to my friends, they would come over all the time. I come from a big family, too; I have three siblings. All my life we have been there for each other and helped each other, shared with each other. It made me love people and appreciate them. I think it made me a better person. Places I discovered in my neighborhood fascinated me as well. I remember finding this old house with a garden with my friends once. I didn't seem anyone lived there so we would cut through the property everyday to get to school and we called it the "Secret Garden". It later became our hangout spot, where sometimes we also got in trouble:) My friends and I also discovered this attic in one of the buildings one of my friend lived in and that spot became our "Secret Club" spot that only the few of us knew about. I hated to stay indoors when I was a kid, as soon as I did all my chores at home, out the door I went to hang out with my friends. I lived through my sense of touch and sight the most I think.I didn't pay much attention to music or sounds, until later in life. I like music but sometimes it bothers me and I enjoy just quiet. It was about what I saw in my life and what I touched. I also used to love to draw. I had a wild imagination. All my siblings did as well and we used to draw a lot when we had to be indoors. I loved and still love readings, I read even after my mom turned out the lights in my bedroom because it was night time; I somehow managed to still find a way to read when she didn't see ( which greatly contributed to my bad vision now, what a smart child I was...). One of my favorite books to read was this "People of the Ice Saga" that had so many parts to it, I absolutely loved it and read it all. It was about these generations of people with special, magic powers and I used to pretend I was one of them, when no one was looking. I daydreamed about going somewhere else to live (even though I loved my life and my house and people around me) to see what else is out there in the world. I guess there is still a part of me in me that wants to see a lot of the world, however, I treat it as a hobby not a career path. My early ability to be popular between my friends and always be there for my friends in their needs and being good with people made me want to major in psychology and be someone who can help people one day, because my love and need for people still remains in me till today.