Living an Impact-Focused Life
What’s your Why?
I believe I was put on this earth to: be able make a positive change even if it is small
My purpose is to: better myself every day and better the people and environment around me
I believe (my core values): are loyalty, honesty, unity, kindness and appreciation
The one thing I must do before I die is: feel happy with the people I am surrounded by and feel happy with the work I’m doing
My advocates and supporters all believe I: am a hard working individual who will never get up until I finish what I set my mind to
The evil I want to eradicate in this world is: injustice
I want to work in order to: be happy with myself
Walk the Talk – Your How
If you are truly committed to your Why, you show it in your everyday behavior. It is all air until you do it. Working from your Why, How do you prove that you are true to your Why in all you do?
I always: check up on others and myself, make sure I complete my checklist I give myself.
I never: give up on other or any projects I am working on
My work style is: hectic. My ideas are often disorganized, and I am typically working on multiple things at once.
I try to treat people: the way I would want someone to treat me
approach problems by: hearing their side of their story and then I tell them mine. This then allows us to have a mutual understanding of how we view the problem.
Victories are time to: when I have accomplished something (big or small)
If another attacks my point of view I: try to understand where they are coming from
If I fundamentally do not agree with what an organization or person is doing, I will: express my opinions on why I do not agree and try to understand why they agree with it
Your Credibility – Your Whats
You have just spent some considerable time at Lehigh, and specifically in the Global Social Impact Fellowship, on many whats. Your whats include lab research, formal presentations, writing research papers, engaging with people in other cultural contexts, building prototypes, designing and building systems, raising funds, hiring employees, etc. The whats you have collected along the way are critical to your credibility when you are entering the workforce or applying to the best graduate and professional schools. They signify a credible currency to which organizations can assign value. Create a list of your Whats that are truly reflective of your Why & How. You did these things because you believe (Why) and you acquired them in the following (How) manner. These are examples you can use in interviews.
| What Have I Done | List of Experiences, Accomplishments, and Lessons Learned |
| Degrees, Minors, Certificates, Fellowships | · Global Social Impact Fellowship
· B.S in Biology with a minor in Health Medicine and Society
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| Research Experiences | |
| Inventions and Innovations | |
| (Social) Entrepreneurial Ventures |
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| Publications
(Formal and Informal) |
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| Formal Presentations
(at Lehigh and Beyond) |
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| Awards and
External Recognition |
Articulating and learning from GSIF-related Experiences. For each of these prompts, we want you to identify one and only one specific and compelling event/incident/experience/moment and identify exactly how you grew personally and professionally through that moment.
| Teamwork Experience
(and Lessons Learned)
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· When we first joined the new team, it was hard for all of us to work as a team because were two teams coming together as one and we also had to do it online. But what I learned is that it is an uncomfortable situation for everyone and not just me. So just understanding that made me feel better because I wasn’t in this alone.
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| Conflict Resolution Experience
(and Lessons Learned) |
· When I was working with Rozhin we disagreed about what price should be listed for the antioxidants. I believed that it should be the bulk price and she believed that it should be the price per pound. However, we both discussed our sides and came to an agreement.
· At first, I didn’t understand why Rozhin thought it would be better to list the price per pound but she brought up aspects to it I never thought of
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| Leadership Experience
(and Lessons Learned)
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· Coming up with the antioxidant idea |
| Dealing with Chaos, Ambiguity, and Uncertainty (and Lessons Learned) |
· When we went online for last semester it was even tougher transition because we were on also working on a new project. So we had to virtually meet the members we were working with and I honestly could not tell what my role on this project was. But then after a while I was able to make a role and this taught me that there is always a place for work that I could be doing.
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| Personally Challenging Experience (and Lessons Learned)
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· For our team, the project we currently are working on was not one any of us intended to work on. We then had to quickly transition onto another project and this within itself was a difficult process. I had to learn how to adapt quickly to the new project and also the team setting. |
| Cross-cultural Experience (and Lessons Learned)
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· The engineering helped brought up interesting question that I never would have thought of
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| An experience that helped you connect your GSIF work to your discipline / major.
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· I learned more about antioxidants and the benefits it has on people
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| A moment that boosted your sense of agency and self-efficacy – you felt like you can speak for yourself, get stuff done, take on the world and make it better.
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| A moment where you felt like you truly have a strong sense of purpose and belonging in this dynamic, globalized interdependent world.
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