Leadership

My weaknesses as a leader are probably the fact that I tend to be a lot less aggressive and a lot more submissive around people I do not really know and that sometimes I am not the most optimistic person. I feel like both of these are important traits to have because a leader needs to be seen as the most dominant and the most enthusiastic; that’s why people look up to and follow them. My strengths as a leader are probably my emotional stability and my tough-mindedness. I am able to keep my head in frustrating and stressful situations and I feel like I can handle them fairly well because I have had a lot of practice. I can always seem to put stuff like that out of my mind. Although it may not seem like it, and it may not be the most admirable quality, I am also extremely stubborn. I feel like both of these are important because you have to be able to keep a clear head to be able to make decisions and you have to be able to stick to your decisions and back them up whether they were the right decisions to make or not. I aspire to make a difference here by being an active member of Students Engaged in Aquatic Sciences (SEAS) and trying to keep my fellow marine science majors motivated to stick through the super intense course load and let them know that they can do it and still have time to have fun too.