Hello,
My name is Sam Hausler and I am a sophomore majoring in Finance. I have lived on campus for the past two years in Larch hall, and yes I love polar bears! But I am not writing about polar bears, I am writing about myself. I was homeschooled up until my junior year of high school when I started going to Ankeny Christian Academy. I graduated from ACA with a class size of 11. Thats right, 11. So not a big change from being homeschooled. Then I came to Iowa State where my first class has over 300 students in it. That was a big change, but the change has ultimately been good and helped me to grow as a person.
The time when I am at my best is when I am around people I love, doing something that I have a passion for. I am a very emotional person so when I there is something I am passionate for, it motivates me to continue to work harder and try to do the best job that I can do.
What I enjoy doing most is connecting with people. I feel like I can use things that have happened in my life and things that I am still going through to relate to people and help them through tough times in their life.
Something I enjoy learning about is things that I can apply to everyday life. I don't like the classes when the teacher just says things that you could never use either in your future or now as a student. I understand that not all things are applicable to your major, but when they can tie something back into an application, then I enjoy those classes or lectures.
My goals as a peer mentor is to help transition freshman into their move to college. I was blessed to have many older students that could give me advice and help me to not make stupid mistakes. Another goal that I have is just to simply be there for the people in my group. I want to be available and someone that they know they can come to outside of class and recitation.
The role that I would play is something that I kind of talked about in the last question. To always be available to the students, and to give them things that I have found helpful in my transition.
Sam Hausler
I can only imagine how difficult it was to try and adjust to Iowa State in those first few weeks as a freshman. It was scary enough for me and I had graduated with over 140 students.
ReplyDeleteIt is a great thing you like connecting with people and using your life experiences to help them, because you'll be needing that during the next year and in the future.
You have a very positive attitude about your transition to Iowa State, and I think that will be very helpful as a peer mentor. Connecting with incoming Hixson scholars will also be an important facet of peer mentoring; I think it will be very beneficial for your students to have you to look up to.
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