My Personal Introduction
By: Meghan Brennan
Tags: About Me

My name is Meghan Brennan and this is a little bit about me. I am currently a Freshman at Montclair State University and I am majoring in Communications and Media Arts. Montclair State has always been my dream school. I grew up in New Jersey and as I was growing up I watched my mom, cousins, and some friends attend the university. They have helped me grow a strong love for Montclair as a result of the campus, activities, and a large selection of courses. When it was my time to apply to college, I had absolutely no idea what I wanted to do with my life. I went back and forth between becoming a teacher, a forensic anthropologist, a nurse, and many other options. All of these things were not related in any way and it is interesting to go back and look at what I initially thought I wanted to be in the future. Eventually, I landed on the idea of becoming involved in package and product design. After conducting research on careers and different majors, I came to the conclusion that this is where I wanted to be. I have always loved art, painting, and creating things that I am proud of. That is where product and package design came to mind. I wanted to choose a career path that included my love for art but something that I could be successful in.

Aside from the academic and career portion of my life, some things that I do enjoy are working, playing sports, painting, and cosmetics. Ever since I was legally allowed to have a job I have been working extremely hard at different places. I started at a small grocery store in my home town of Weston Connecticut, then I moved onto some babysitting jobs, I then worked at a liquor store, and now I am working at Moe’s. I have always been working because at a young age I was taught about the importance of money and saving. My parents never spoiled me and showed me that if I wanted something that I had to work for it. I have slowly been working my way up to higher paying jobs and the hard work has paid off. I have the flexibility to go out and do what I want to do and I also have the piece of mind that I am already preparing myself for my future. As for sports, I have always been a very active person and I played at least two sports every year ever since I was 8 years old. I switched between lacrosse, soccer, volleyball, softball, competitive cheerleading, and swimming. Out of all of those my favorite sport is definitely softball. It is the only sport that I have stuck with since I began playing sports and it has actually taught me a lot. My senior year of high school I was the captain for my varsity team. It taught me dedication, leadership, and determination. It was definitely a great experience. Also, as I mentioned before I have a strong love for art work. I am constantly throwing my thoughts and dreams out onto a piece of paper and using all aspects of my life to create amazing pieces of art work. Art is something that has helped me through a lot. It helps me express my feelings and cope with certain emotions. Life can be hard and many people have their way of getting through things. For me, creating art is how I do that. Lastly, cosmetics is something that I have recently grown to love. I have been starting to learn certain techniques when it comes to doing nails. This is something that I spend most of my recent free time doing and it is actually something that I hope to incorporate into my future as well. I plan to go to cosmetology school and take on some nail clients on the side of my true career. It is very rare or someone to find two career paths that they could take that they truly enjoy, I am so glad that I have found both of those things.

It is hard to sum up who you are in just a small amount of words. However, I was able to show you multiple aspects of my life in just about 400 of them. Trsut me, there is a lot more to me than just these few things, but I feel like I showed you a good portion of myself throughout this little excerpt. Thanks for getting to know me!

-Meghan Brennan