The three main characteristics that I believe SPA alumnus have is determination about what they want to do but at the same time apprehension on how they are going to do it or if it is going to happen. anxious would be another characteristic for some of them because a lot of the alumnus were ready and had everything together, and prepared and feel that they know what all is going to happen.
I think these characteristics are attained when they start on something that is going to be needed for their future or something that is going to help them. They start thinking that they have everything and they wont need anyone’s help after they leave. What they fail to realize is if they keep that attitude and not look at the possible negative things that could happen. When it does hit them, it is going to be so much for them that they will break all their confidence. But also if they don’t feel that it is enough they wont really want to move on which brings them down.
The characteristics that I posses would be apprehensive and anxious and determined. I am so apprehensive because everything came so fast for me and I see everyone else who left here had all their information they needed, and had experience in different areas that I don’t have, and I am not even that good in a lot of things because I have a hard time remembering things. And I am anxious because of me not knowing a lot I worry about the chances of those things happening to me. I mean I can barely write a good paper without running on in different topics. I never got straight A’s or straight B’s and before I came to SPA I NEVER got a 2.0. I was always moving around or missing school for some stupid reason which caused me to get behind in some of my classes, and on top of that I would ALWAYS! Have some kind of problem in my foster home or something. All that made it hard for me to concentrate or even want to do anything at all which affects me in a lot of different ways. I don’t like to trust people which makes it harder to express myself. So now I have different things that bother me but I hide them by laughing and making a joke out of everything, Which now worries me. I’m scared because I don’t want to do that when it comes time to do something in the real world, because know that it would be hard. And those are the reasons I posses those characteristics.
