UBC Application Essay: A Critical Personal Reflection

This essay presents a critical personal reflection, detailing the author's flexible personality and how it's perceived by family, friends, and community members. It emphasizes the importance of family and money in the author's life, highlighting how these factors shape their identity and provide stability. The essay also discusses activities and accomplishments, such as leadership roles in university projects and customer relationship management, emphasizing the development of leadership skills, accountability, and problem-solving abilities. Furthermore, the author expresses a keen interest in studying People and Society at UBC, driven by a fascination with diverse cultures and societal practices. This reflection provides a comprehensive overview of the author's personal attributes, values, and aspirations.

Running head: CRITICAL PERSONAL REFLECTION
CRITICAL PERSONAL REFLECTION
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Question 1:
Flexible personality:
I feel that I have very flexible kind of personality. For example, one day I observed my
father sitting on a sofa quietly and for a little longer time than usual. It’s not that I have never
seen my father sitting like this before, but this time I could sense that there is something
definitely wrong with him. I went to him enquire about the matter. However, he didn’t reveal the
matter to me but tuned the matter by telling me that I am a girl with strong sense of prediction
and gave me a faint smile.
On the other hand, my school friends apprise me as their problem solver who is able to
handle any situation with ease and take the situation under her control. My teachers wherein
mark me as the serious minded person who is always ready to take challenge and complete the
task with determination. To my family members I am a person with good balancing power of
emotion and strength which makes me a sensible person, whereas, my community members refer
to me as the confident and strong girl.
In regard to this, I strongly feel about myself that I possess a flexible personality who is
capable of adapting in any situation. In fact, I feel proud of my flexible personality because it
allows me to be a harmonious combination of various natures such as compassions, reliability,
sensible and at the same time emotional.

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Question 2:
Importance to me:
There are various factors that determine the livelihood of people. Similarly, for me there
works diverse kind of variables and constant factors which is able to influence my life at any
time. Among all the determinates the family is most important to me because I strongly feel that
without my family I am an incomplete and fragmented person. In addition, I feel that my family
to great extent has contributed to build up my identity in the society. I personally feel that the
family is the primary teacher of a persona and the person at the initial stage of his life starts to
learn things from the family first and then from the conventional institutions.
Considering the fact of giving importance to the family, I would like add one more
constituents that I consider being important to me. I affirm that money is perceived as the most
principal and salient thing in life by most of the people, and I also give importance to money in
terms of leading a good, comfortable and easy life. However, I personally feel that money cannot
always solve all the problem, but is capable of reducing the severity of the problem. To me,
money is important to me because it helps me leading a good and life and makes me capable of
providing happiness and comfort to my family. Consequently, my family and money is the most
important thing to me as I feel these two together influence my life to a certain extent.
Question 4:
Activities and its Importance:
There are various activities that I have pursues in different stages of my life. Some of the
pursuits made me accomplished achievement. One of the best examples of my appreciation is
based on my leadership competency. On a project of my university I was chosen as the leader of

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the team of 10 people. We succeeded in the project and our teachers inflated my leadership
skills. I was said that I could good leader in future who has inclusivity and good motivational and
decision making competencies. On the other hand, I feel that my accountability is one of the
responsibilities that have made me achieve appreciation in my professional life. In the initial
stage of my career as the customer relationship executive I have reflected my sense of
accountability to the customers as well as the management which made me promoted to upper
level in my profession.
As per the example I have mentioned, I feel that the activity of leading a group project is
most significant to me as it has enhanced my leadership capabilities to a great extent. I played the
role of the leader of the project that has helped to develop my internal skills and understand the
importance of the leadership skills in order to achieve the desired goals. On the other hand, the as
the customer relationship executive my role was to establish a strong and effective
communication with the customer so that they are able to propose their problems. My job role
required me to be accountable for my responsibilities to solve the problems of the customers.
This pursuit of performing as the problem solver and the moderator in my profession seems vital
to me because it has not only enhanced my sense of responsibilities but also transformed into a
better and honest person.
Question 5:
Additional Information:
I want to take admission in UBC in People and Society because not only I feel that the
University provides best education on the certain subject but also I feel a strong connection with
the various people. In other way, I am keen to know about the people and the society they are

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belonging. The diverse kind of people in the society and their different practice and beliefs
indicating their cultures attracts me to a great extent. This is why I want to study the particular
program at UBC.