Alumni Essay 26

Throughout my participation these past two years in Youth lead KC, I feel like I’ve learned a lot in becoming a leader. In the beginning of my junior year I had no clue on how to properly work with my classmates, how to act in a professional setting or to even present myself, honestly I was really clueless. The introduction during my junior year to the main project everyone participated in for our schools is what really started to show me how we can become leaders with our teams and better our community at the same time. It taught me how to communicate with others professionally, work properly in a team and to support those around me, help others when they were stuck–In a way it helped me mature more and become more social.

This year, the program has helped me become a leader outside of school, how to make connections, and to strive and work hard for what I want. I’ve met amazing people, both other leaders within youth lead KC and speakers, it gives me comfort knowing that these people through this program and succeeded well beyond words! The skills I’ve learned in this program could help me so much in the future. As a person going into the medical field, some skills like communication, strategic decision making, and team building could come in really handy once I start going to college and med school as well. All of the skills I’ve learned with this program these two years– regardless will teach me to do better and learn to make connections with others more into the future.

Going back to my topic of working in a team and making our community better– I feel like the meaning “leaving a legacy” to me means leaving an impact on both the community around me and in the ones I’ll be going to in the future. I also hope that the legacy I leave behind for students newly coming into the program, can use it as a way to get inspiration into getting ideas on how to help out the community in a more major way around them and leave it better than how it was before.

Needless to say, the way this program has impacted me in a vital way that I truly believe wouldn’t have happened if it weren’t for the program, it has helped me improve a lot of things which I needed to fix. Such things like–my way of getting to meet people and introducing myself towards them, my way of communicating with others in a professional way and setting, and many more. This program and all the people in it have helped me and many others figure out how to be accomplished and how to become multiskilled at such an early stage in life. To both newcomers and people that have been in the program for a while, will benefit in so many ways simply by getting into the program–but I do hope everyone just like me, gets set up into becoming more successful.