One of the ways in which the American Psychological Association (APA) defines academic self-concept is an individual’s evaluation of their own overall learning skill/performance. Though rather humble, Evan Perlmutter should think highly of himself in this regard. Evan is a high school student who is also attending college. Dual enrolled at Tucker High School, and here at Georgia State Perimeter College for the year, he has been admitted to and plans to attend The University of Georgia next year. He is getting ahead of the game in his collegiate student career. Few high school students get a leg up in college by choosing to attending college courses before they complete high school.
Why is Evan attending college courses while in high school?
Funny, you should ask.…
He’s doing so, partly because “[his] older brother did”.
So, what other things has Evan done just because his brother has done? Surprisingly, not much.?!
These two only sibling brothers are only 3 years apart, but their mild, tenderhearted rivalry extends solely to video games and, our focus, academia. In this composition we will discuss Evan’s academic-self.
Evan views himself as well organized and a great manager of his time. He is happy to be excelling in his courses. He is settled, confident and he is doing well. He likes science and math; he does not particularly care for language arts of social sciences. Evan’s father is an environmental engineer and his brother is a mechanical engineering major at Georgia Tech. Much like the chosen fields of his father and brother, Evan, who will be off to UGA soon, will be a landscape architect. Lionel Trilling, well known professor of Oxford, Harvard and most notably Columbia, believed that students regarded college “merely as a process of accreditation, with an economic-social end in view” (Delbanco 17). In some ways Evan agrees as he would not attend college if he did not feel that it was important to his career. Inevitably, Evan’s goal is to help people through his passion to help the environment. As cites grow and expand Evan sees an increased demand for city planning in urban design. Somewhat contrastingly from his father and brother, Evan’s mother is a therapist, counseling patients that suffer emotionally with pain reprocessing. Although Evan feels that his father is the biggest influence in his life, he has picked up on traits tied in more so with emotional intelligence from his mother. Evan recognizes that the influences both of his mother and father is why landscape architecture sparks his interests. Though, it is a science related field the outcome of landscape architecture relates to achieving environmental ascetics that affect not just environmental but social-behavioral outcomes.
Delbanco remarks that “going to college means to be released into a playground of unregulated freedom” (19). However, Evan is in no way a socialite, and isn’t looking forward to becoming one, as gregarious interaction can be seen traditionally as one of the hallmarks of young college life. Evan has always attended public school. Coming up in school, he mostly stuck to a small group of friends, but he does reveal that his experiences in the schools he has attended has led to experience with diverse groups people. He revels in that fact. He should, as helping others is his aim. Listed are just a few of the traits that Evan will take with him on his journey, both in his academic-self ergo his future.
Delbanco, Andrew. College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be – Updated Edition on JSTOR.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1287khf.3.