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AEM Major Personal Statement
I would like to study the major of Applied Economics and Management at your College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Throughout my life, my interests, as well as experiences I have had influenced me to choose this major. For starters, I think the AEM major is the right major for me because I am not 100% sure about exactly what career path I want to pursue in my future. I believe that I can benefit from this program because I think your AEM major at CALS is very broad and can lead me to various opportunities. I also know that this is a flexible program so it can allow me to do many different things. In the future I would possibly like to go in to business and I think it would be a good idea if I studied management and how I can apply economics. …show more content…
I am a great leader and throughout my high school career I have taken every opportunity I could to display this. For three out of my four years I have participated as a Muskoka Woods Leader. This required me to spend a week at a summer camp at which I would lead a group of grade 7s through a series of fun activities. Being a leader at this camp wasn't always fun and games though. I had encountered many situations with the grade 7s in which I would have to improvise and apply my knowledge of leadership to sort out. For example, during one of our games we would play, there was a little boy who was sitting off on the side not participating. I went over to talk to the boy to find out what was wrong. When I found out that he didn't understand how to play the game I knew exactly how to fix it. I brought him over to a corner and me and him played our own little one on one version of the game. I taught him how to play and I played with him until he was finally ready to join the other grade 7s. As well as being a Muskoka Leader, in my grade 11 year, I was a Link Leader for my high school. This was different from being a Muskoka Leader because this time I was working with grade 9 students who were entering high school. Throughout the year I worked with the grade 9s giving them secret tips and tricks about how they could survive their freshman year of high

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