"Me"

Hello, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Jennifer (you may call me Jen), and I’m a junior here at Rider. As of right now I am a Communications major with a track in speech and interpersonal. I would like to pick up Elementary Ed or Secondary Ed as a second major in the spring. I have ALWAYS wanted to be a teacher and although it’s taking me a while to get there I will. I’m determined. I’m really hard on myself because I wasted a lot of time but am trying to just face it and realize I can’t go back in time and to work hard to get where I want to be. I have always been interested in Communications so that’s why I decided to major in it, and I am loving every minute of it. I know I want to go on for my masters and eventually become a professor. I have had a few very inspirational professors that make me want to take on the challenge and become a professor myself.

A few things to describe myself would be that I am very outgoing, friendly, talkative, serious, sometimes moody, stubborn, independent, trustworthy, and some others. I’ve been a social butterfly since I can remember and have never been shy to go up to someone and initiate conversation. Sometimes, like I’m sure a lot of you I can be really serious when I have to be or something’s going on in my mind or bothering me. I tend to keep a lot in and not get anything out until it builds up so much that I breakdown to either my boyfriend or best friends Robin or Becca. I know it’s really not healthy to be that way but that’s where me being stubborn comes in. I don’t like to put my problems on other people, so I try to figure them out myself or just finally have a breakdown and call one of the people I mentioned. I’m also stubborn and independent where I always think I can do EVERYTHING by myself. I’ve been like that ever since I was little. My mom tells me stories all the time about how I would want to do everything myself when I was little and wouldn’t want anyone’s help. Now it seems to be a slight problem with my boyfriend because he wants to help me like a good boyfriend should with lots of things and then my stubbornness and independence act out. I’m also pretty private with what’s going on in my life and don’t put much out there for people unless they really get to know me and gain my trust. Trust is a HUGE thing with me and I feel one of the most important things in any relationship.

I mentioned three people early so let me tell you a little about them. Becca and Robin are my best friends that I met from Millersville University. As I mentioned in class, I went there first and it didn’t work out, so I came home to the community college to catch up on credits and now obviously I’m at Rider. Well I can say two great things came out of me going to MU was I met my two best friends. These girls have been there for me through everything and absolutely would drop whatever they were doing if I ever needed anything (and vise versa). I’m talking like when I came home, I live in New Jersey and my friend Robin lives in Pennsylvania, and if something happened where I needed her she would drop what she was doing and drive 2 hours to meet me for coffee and cheer me up or help me through whatever it was. I’ve never had friends like this ever.

Leaving MU also allowed me to meet my boyfriend/the love of my life. He was a friend of my brother and it was one of those love at first sight stories. He’s very shy, and somewhat opposite of me. So I basically saw him, knew I wanted him to be mine, and went for it and we’ve been together ever since. It has been over 2 years and we're still going strong. Him being opposite me is great because we seem to compliment each other. I think we learn so much from each other and I think that’s very important in a relationship.

I really would like to make the most of my two years here at Rider and plan on getting very involved or at least as much as possible. I’d like to share a quote with you all that I try to remind myself with and live by, “We only get one life, one chance, and what we do with it is up to us.” -unknown