I scored the highest in the extraversion category. I’ve always been described as an exuberant person that loves to interact with people. I always find this interesting because I do choose to stay home more than I choose to go out, and I don’t like concerts/big crowds. When I saw the breakdown of friendliness, love of excitement, gregariousness, and cheerfulness it made sense why extraversion was my highest category and why I scored so highly in those categories. I scored an 88 on cheerfulness and 79 on excitement-seeking. I definitely feel that these are accurate to my personality. I love to be happy and have fun with people, to adventure, and to laugh. I scored relatively low on the openness to experience category which is an interesting contrast to a high extraversion score. very high in imagination, emotionality, adventurousness, liberalism, but low in artistic interests and intellect. In other words- I’m extroverted and people oriented as long as it’s fun and exciting.

I also scored highly in agreeableness which doesn’t surprise me. I’m learning in my classes such as negotiation that I gravitate towards agreeing with and accommodating others. I’ve always had trouble with being gullible and too trusting of others, so I wasn’t surprised to see that I scored highly in the trust category. I also wasn’t surprised to see a high score for sympathy, I’m a very empathetic and sympathetic person. I am the type of person to cry if I see someone crying, and I naturally put myself in the shoes of people. I scored highly in neuroticism which I think is related to these components of the agreeableness category. I scored very highly in anxiety, immoderation, and vulnerability. To me these categories relate because some of them are almost symptoms of the other. For example- being anxious and sympathetic partially impact me being agreeable.

I scored very low in conscientiousness. I don’t think I’m very impulsive, but I do tend to not stay within the lines. I like to be colorful and fun and I don’t love to stay within the bounds of rules so I guess my score in this category makes sense. I did score highly on achievement seeking which I found interesting. At the beginning of college I was opposite of that, but now I am the kind of student that seeks excellence. I’m not surprised to score highly in this category of conscientiousness, and high on cautiousness. I did score very low on self discipline, which makes sense to me as well. I think this category says that I’ve at least adopted traits to combat my tendency to avoid rules and structure.