The College Application 1

(~*~)

Hello,

This is my latest "Le Challenge" that came from my school when I tried to fill out the "general" awards, bursaries, grants, and scholarships application. Every part was simple, but then I came across the fact that I needed to write 2 essays for it to be complete. The cut off date: TOMORROW (Oct.7, 2016). I started this tonight, and yes it took me all night but it will be worth it if I get it. Otherwise, it can be added to my inspirational/ motivational blogs that may help others. With that said, I am sharing the first essay with you here.
WARNING: It is a bit lengthy of a read.

Career Goals, Passions, & Commitment

To talk about my career goals, passions, and commitment to my field of study/ life, I have to begin with explaining my passions and who I am in these regards. I am a highly-creative, design-minded individual that loves forms of freedom (ex. Dancing), technology (with all its potentials), and the creative process. I am very fair-minded, community (globally) and quality oriented, and I am not afraid of change for the better – in fact I often bring it upon myself. My passions are within all these areas and more, as I have many interests and much inspires me. I consider myself to be a life-long learner, and often aim to keep myself and others inspired/ motivated through sharing efforts involving positivity (in many ways), community building, and of course self-improvement. 

My career thoughts include my interests in areas of creativity, design, and technology specifically; as I want to include all of these in any job I do in my life. My dream job would be to work in an entrepreneurial-type, community & technology-driven local company. One that’s not afraid to: try new things, improve on things (like the company BASF), or hear me out with some of my many ideas/ improvement thoughts. As I often have many, I prefer to share them if they may help. Just ask my C programming professor, about my time travel card’s contents during the scavenger hunt - team “Syntax Error XYZ”.  A couple of examples that comes to mind are Communitech and Desire2Learn.  

As I wish we already lived in the “Jetsons” (yes, the cartoon/ movies) era, some of my career dreams/ goals include (but are not limited to) the following (not in any particular order):

1. To work with my design-minded-highly-creative brain that loves tech! – For any job I do (as mentioned above). 
2. To establish a specific brand/ trade name (already know a few options I’d love to do in different areas), and start making high-quality tech-involved products/ services. 
3. Technology induced designs (I LOVE the ideas/ thinking behind the “MYO arm band” from Thalmic Labs. I discovered this company during my career exploration portion of my “Focus for Change” class at the Conestoga College Waterloo location. 
4. To be like “Edna Mode” (movie: The Incredibles) with tech-involved designs for clothing/ costumes/ props that I can offer to the public as products. This one could also fit with #2 above here. 
5. This is one of my bigger goals! To build the software (and possibly hardware) for the pieces inside the PC/ laptop/ etc. for building customizable super PCs. I love that I am finally in my course to learn for this one! 
6. Yes, sorry I am not sharing this one publicly.

And lastly, I am not currently seeking employment due to my course load as I am in my first year of software engineering technology (co-op option I am hoping for). I just want to learn and gain experience at this point. When I do obtain employment, I am fine with working for others as it is always a good learning experience and I enjoy helping others where I can. If it changes into an entrepreneurial position over time, I am fine with that too. And I don’t know in which service area it may be in – public, private, or non-profit; but I am good with trying them all just to see the differences. As I appreciate diversity, and personally wish that I could learn about 8 more languages - other than only English.

As for the discussion of my overcoming or continuing to face obstacles (financial or otherwise) while pursuing my post-secondary education: I feel that is best left for the "Financial Need" essay, as it asks for me to share it there also.

If you would like the link to some of my motivational blogs, please don’t hesitate to ask. Thank you for this chance to get you better acquainted with me. I appreciate it.

(~*~) 

Thank you for reading it to the end here if you did. 

Until next time...

Take care & Safe travels!

Chris S./ C.E.S. (*@^@*)

The College Application 1

(~*~)

Hello,

This is my latest "Le Challenge" that came from my school when I tried to fill out the "general" awards, bursaries, grants, and scholarships application. Every part was simple, but then I came across the fact that I needed to write 2 essays for it to be complete. The cut off date: TOMORROW (Oct.7, 2016). I started this tonight, and yes it took me all night but it will be worth it if I get it. Otherwise, it can be added to my inspirational/ motivational blogs that may help others. With that said, I am sharing the first essay with you here.
WARNING: It is a bit lengthy of a read.

Career Goals, Passions, & Commitment

To talk about my career goals, passions, and commitment to my field of study/ life, I have to begin with explaining my passions and who I am in these regards. I am a highly-creative, design-minded individual that loves forms of freedom (ex. Dancing), technology (with all its potentials), and the creative process. I am very fair-minded, community (globally) and quality oriented, and I am not afraid of change for the better – in fact I often bring it upon myself. My passions are within all these areas and more, as I have many interests and much inspires me. I consider myself to be a life-long learner, and often aim to keep myself and others inspired/ motivated through sharing efforts involving positivity (in many ways), community building, and of course self-improvement. 

My career thoughts include my interests in areas of creativity, design, and technology specifically; as I want to include all of these in any job I do in my life. My dream job would be to work in an entrepreneurial-type, community & technology-driven local company. One that’s not afraid to: try new things, improve on things (like the company BASF), or hear me out with some of my many ideas/ improvement thoughts. As I often have many, I prefer to share them if they may help. Just ask my C programming professor, about my time travel card’s contents during the scavenger hunt - team “Syntax Error XYZ”.  A couple of examples that comes to mind are Communitech and Desire2Learn.  

As I wish we already lived in the “Jetsons” (yes, the cartoon/ movies) era, some of my career dreams/ goals include (but are not limited to) the following (not in any particular order):

1. To work with my design-minded-highly-creative brain that loves tech! – For any job I do (as mentioned above). 
2. To establish a specific brand/ trade name (already know a few options I’d love to do in different areas), and start making high-quality tech-involved products/ services. 
3. Technology induced designs (I LOVE the ideas/ thinking behind the “MYO arm band” from Thalmic Labs. I discovered this company during my career exploration portion of my “Focus for Change” class at the Conestoga College Waterloo location. 
4. To be like “Edna Mode” (movie: The Incredibles) with tech-involved designs for clothing/ costumes/ props that I can offer to the public as products. This one could also fit with #2 above here. 
5. This is one of my bigger goals! To build the software (and possibly hardware) for the pieces inside the PC/ laptop/ etc. for building customizable super PCs. I love that I am finally in my course to learn for this one! 
6. Yes, sorry I am not sharing this one publicly.

And lastly, I am not currently seeking employment due to my course load as I am in my first year of software engineering technology (co-op option I am hoping for). I just want to learn and gain experience at this point. When I do obtain employment, I am fine with working for others as it is always a good learning experience and I enjoy helping others where I can. If it changes into an entrepreneurial position over time, I am fine with that too. And I don’t know in which service area it may be in – public, private, or non-profit; but I am good with trying them all just to see the differences. As I appreciate diversity, and personally wish that I could learn about 8 more languages - other than only English.

As for the discussion of my overcoming or continuing to face obstacles (financial or otherwise) while pursuing my post-secondary education: I feel that is best left for the "Financial Need" essay, as it asks for me to share it there also.

If you would like the link to some of my motivational blogs, please don’t hesitate to ask. Thank you for this chance to get you better acquainted with me. I appreciate it.

(~*~) 

Thank you for reading it to the end here if you did. 

Until next time...

Take care & Safe travels!

Chris S./ C.E.S. (*@^@*)

C.E.S. "Le Challenge" - General Info.

To Be, or Not To Become

Hello,
I have found along my journeys/ adventures that Life brings us many changes through challenges along the way. And although some may be more difficult than others, it is almost always a positive growth experience to be embraced. For each of us it is different, and each of us react differently. Some like myself, enjoy many and tend to create new challenges for ourselves. These are usually within our comfort zones and abilities, but not always. For sometimes it is the harder to achieve, that truely helps us grow.

Along with these changes and challenges come the oh so many inspirations! These help to keep us motivated; as we learn, create, and grow from them in so many ways. It can become an ongoing Life 'Le Challenge' (as I call it). My thoughts are endless!

There are many local activities, events, and holiday celebrations throughout the year; that can provide inspiration/ opportunities. With this in mind, I have started a list for myself and anyone else interested. I hope you enjoy the 'Le Challenge's, that I share with you.

WHO: Anyone
WHEN: Any time
WHY:
To keep objective thinking alive, enjoying some art time, and enable positive growth.
Opening our minds/ doors, to enable Imagination & Opportunities to visit! (^^^)
WHAT: Various...

Feel free to check back for more Le Challenges... (^^^)

Until next time...
Take care & Safe travels!
Trish the Dish/ C.E.S. (*@^@*)

~

C.E.S. "Le Challenge" - Curiosity Cat 1

CRAZY CURIOSITY

Hello,

As I go through Life, I find that I tend to think a lot about different life and business aspects. I find that through blogs/ events I create, that I end up giving myself a lot of 'Le Challenge's. As I re-read them and make any additions/ corrections, and each time I share them; it reminders me.

Today I am sharing a new one, that came to me a while ago as I started saving files. This will be ongoing with myself in different formats for it. It started simple enough, but has grown to include more with possible levels of complication, details, or involvement.

WHO:

As usual, any are welcome to try this themselves.

WHEN:

Any time inspired.

WHERE:
Anywhere you are.

WHY:

To help myself with getting prepared, organized, and building/ creating a larger reference of personal resources in my files. This may come in handy in many areas, like goal setting (personal or business), scheduling, time management, information sharing, grant applying, and more.

WHAT:

When thinking of inspiration; there are a lot of great sayings with or without pics, or great wording from other companies.

When it comes to theories, we all have some to share.

When it comes to our passions and access as work, there are a lot of grant possibilities we may not know. These may be vital to us getting our projects/ business

initiatives off the ground, going, & continuing.

My Idea:

RE: Great sayings/ pics, or wording

How many can be combined, condensed, orated differently so it is easier to understand, etc... ?

How many times are we inspired to write our own version of the great wording we discover?

RE: Theories

How many times have I said, thought, written, or otherwise different aspects of life in possibly different view points than others. OR what seems like "common sense"

to me, is not always the case with others. OR Viewpoints on life in general (ex. Creativity). OR How do we view how our business could be, or would be if

something was different. OR What creates positives that enable growth? OR... There are so many angles/ aspects that can be explored here.

RE: Grants

How many times do we find out too late, that we had an unknown opportunity? How many times have we tried to find out how to go about getting grants, and not

been able to find them? Or don't even know about what grants may suit us individually, and our needs for personal/ business use.

HOW:

1. My Crazy Curiosity 'Le Challenge'

Do the activities, and research that may be involved in answering these Qs.

RE: Great sayings/ pics, or wording

Can I do my own versions - pics or no?

What do I want to say/ portray?

How do I want to say/ portray it?

RE: Theories

It's time to get more blogged.

RE: Grants

Research online. Answer any applicable to me.

2. Then, keep it all in one folder in my files.

This shall be quite the tasks to accomplish, and will take a lot of time. I will probably be doing it sparingly as I try to get other things organized and accomplished also.

Life's not easy when you have a continually thinking inspirational brain! Cheers to all others out there! Until next time...

Take care & Safe travels

Sincerely,

Chris S. (*@^@*)

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