Personal Goal:

I want to join some clubs that I think that I might be interested in, so that maybe I can find some friends that have similar interests. Also, I want to try new things that I may not have had experience in before, to expand my horizons on the front of interests. This would fit into the idea of cultural citizenship, which is mentioned in the Scheuer article. In this, he says that “the overall goal is to foster vibrant and prosperous communities with broad and deep participation…”(pg 4). I know that when I graduate college, I want to be able to say that I was active in the community that I spent four years in. The years of college are meant to be some of the greatest years of my life, where I learn new things and meet new people who may become my friends for life. Although it is off to a rough start, I still want to make it my goal to find new things that interest me or maybe even pick up some old ones that I had left behind.

Academic Goal:

I want to be able to figure out what I want my major to be. I want to be able to somewhat confidently say that I would like going into a certain field. This connects to the Bain article where he discussed how people choose what major they want to go into from their liberal arts education. “They found what fascinated them.”(pg 203). I realized that I want that for myself. I want to do something that I am passionate about. Too often I hear about people who are caught in a dead end job and have nowhere to go. Bain also stated that “a liberal arts education afforded them the chance to enjoy a richer life because they could get more out of every moment and every experience.”(pg 204). Although I am undecided, and I am not really sure what I want to do for most of my life, I hope that by getting a liberal education I can experience what Bain showed in the article.