1. What are you interested in? Do you have any long-term goals/visions for yourself?
   
2. What led you to choose this program? What do you hope to learn? What are your goals for this year? What skills would you like to develop/learn?
   
3. What are some of your assets? That is, what are some of the skills and experiences that you have developed over the years that you'd be willing to share, teach or use some how to enrich the things we do together as a learning community (e.g. play an instrument, a mean chili recipe, cook for large groups of people, CPR, photography, water color, cool and challenging group games)?
   
4. How would you describe your skills in the following areas? What are your strengths and weaknesses

a) Writing

b) Critical thinking (critical thinking involves: "following evidence where it leads; considering all possibilities; relying on reason rather than emotion; being precise; considering a variety of possible viewpoints and explanations; weighing the effects of motives and biases; being concerned more with finding the truth than with being right; not rejecting unpopular views out of hand; being aware of one's own prejudices and biases, and not allowing them to sway one's judgment." (Kurland in Fowler, 1996)

c) Quantitative skills (these skills include a whole slew of skills revolving around thinking and manipulating numbers -- anything from thinking about measurements to making calculations to interpreting numbers and tables that you see in newspapers or books)

d) Handling responsibility

e) Getting yourself motivated

f) Handing things in on time

g) Working in an interdisciplinary setting (that is, working in either work or school setting where you have to take into account a range of perspectives and types of knowledge -- e.g. social, political and biological; or psychological, economical and environmental)

h) Working with a diverse group of peers (diverse, for example, in terms of culture, experiences, preferences, skills, and opinions)

i) Working in groups