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Personal Statement of Experience Surname: Mingay Full Given Names: Charlotte Cameron Student ID: 20010366 1. List and briefly describe the two most significant distinctions or awards you have earned at university/college/CEGEP, or upper years in high school. Head Girl at Bayview Glen is a position to which I was elected at the end of Grade 11. The Head Boy and I supervise the Executive Student Council while the members work together to represent and improve the experience of the student body. We are responsible for organizing all meetings and overseeing the activities of seven committees and then communicating the conclusions to the school principal. Along with these duties, we are responsible setting good examples of well-rounded students, …show more content…

Please describe a meaningful event or experience that made you reflect on your life. Explain how that experience affected who you are or your life’s direction. Please limit to 250 words or 1,650 characters with spaces. This past summer I lived and worked as a model for six weeks in Milan, Italy. I worked hard physically and mentally and I developed incredible life skills. I was living a new city where English is not the primary language and was responsible for finding my way to various jobs and castings. I augmented my perseverance and independence, by eagerly adapting to the public transit system, becoming intimately familiar with the city and picking up a surprising amount of Italian. I also seized the opportunity to absorb as much culture as I could during my stay. For example, the amazing opportunity I had to do a photoshoot in Lago di Garda, to commemorate the 750th anniversary of Dante’s birth inspired me to read his famous Inferno from The Divine Comedy. I expanded was my financial literacy and obtained a better understanding of the economics of a business. I had to keep an eye on my income versus expenses and conduct thorough reviews of my finances, proving extremely useful when I discovered clients’ attempts to short change

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