- Make a description about yourself starting with personal identity, strong points, qualities that help in life, abilities, talents, weak points and finishing with 3 personal objectives and the name of a person you admire.
My name is Madalina, but everyone is calling me Mada, lately with two exceptions: one is calling me by another girl's name and the other one by weird nicknames that have no translation in English. My birthday is on 14-th of November, year 1989 and I was born in Iasi, a town too small for my dreams. I have a small family, with only four members. My brother's name is Vlad and he is with 4 years younger than me. He is everything that I am not: funny, energetic, likes playing guitar. My mother and my father are a really nice couple and I hope that I will be that in love with my husband as they are with each other over almost 22 years of marriage.
Maybe it is not every time a strong point when dealing with people, but sincerity is one of the things that characterize me the best and keep my conscience clean. I have a developed sense of fairness and I fight all the time to get what i think that i deserve and I am never satisfied with less, even when it comes to relationships or a final grade. I am one of the most loyal and trustworthy person you will ever meet, but these virtues never brought me any appreciation from others. My whole life I was and I will ever be an idealist. Usually I have a clear sketch in mind of my dreams and hopes, thus I immediately recognize them when they materialize in front of my eyes. One thing that really disappoints me about myself is the lack of talents. I did all sort of things across the years but nothing came as a natural talent and made me realize that if I want to do something I will have to work three times harder than the others.
Talking about weak points, the fact that I tend to over exaggerate comes first in mind. Radical most of the time: for me every thing is black or white. I never react in a positive way to critics. For example, if someone criticizes my work or the way I act and talk, I automatically close myself towards that person, but I am working on this bad attitude and I am confident that sooner or later I will witness big improvements.
The most important experience and accomplishment in my life was getting a job. Passing the first interview that I have ever been to with success made me more confident in who I am and in what I can do. Now I have the chance to get the experience that every student is required to have when graduated if he wants a better job, the chance to meet different people and interact with all kinds of situations.
Returning to dreams and plans, my short term objective is going with an Erasmus scholarship in the first semester of the third year of faculty. I think that it will be a great opportunity for me to be part of another environment, to discover a new country, to experience and learn, in the same time. After getting my license in Business Administration, I plan to go in Bucharest to get a Master’s Degree in Actuarial Science (the discipline that applies mathematical and statistical methods to assess risk in the insurance and finance industries) and then looking for a job in this field of study. What will come after I succeed materializing these goals, I hope it will be a happy family life full of satisfactions.
I am interested to work in the financial or risk management field, so in other words, I will have a job as an actuary for a big company. Actuaries mathematically evaluate the likelihood of events and quantify the contingent outcomes in order to minimize losses, both emotional and financial, associated with uncertain undesirable events. Since eleventh grade, when I found out about this kind of job, I could not think of doing something else. My ability in solving problems and foreseeing different outcomes and my inclination towards mathematics and economics made me decide that I could succeed in this kind of job if I would work hard and concentrate a big part of my energy in study. Altough this is my dream job, I think that family is more important, and if someday these two parts of my life would not get along with each other, I would eventually give up on it and do something else and I know for sure that I would not be disappointed with this decision.
My father is the one who supported me the most in all I have done so far. Because of him, now, reading is one of my favorite activities. Is the most hard working man I know and his abilities are so various that there is almost nothing he can not do. From an early age he taught me that it is very important to make good decisions, to keep my head up whenever something goes bad, and that always I could count on his support. From him I have learned the value of a promise, about honesty and courage, generosity and to understand the world around me.
And that's me...
