Member Name BooBear1227 Additional In Game Names: N/A How old are you? 18 Location: Colorado, USA Do you have Skype? Yes Do you have TeamSpeak? Yes How many hours per day do you play MeepCraft? (weekdays) 1 hour – 4 hours (per day) – Please read below for explanation How many hours per day do you play MeepCraft? (weekends) 4 hours – 6 hours (per day) – Please read below for explanation Have you ever been staff on this or any other server? Yes Introduction: Hello there! I would like to assume that many of you know me, but it is a bad thing to assume, so for those who don’t, I will take time to introduce myself.

My name is Boo, Boo-Bear, or Boo-Bear1227. Call me what you will. I’m a Senior in high school (grade 12), about to graduate in “T minus 70 days,” and I am looking at attending a private Jesuit college in the fall. I am eighteen years old, and I enjoy a surplus of activities.

I enjoy doing things that make a difference to others. It is not for the accolades or recognition, but because it is the right thing to do. My parents have made it a priority to instill in me the sense of duty that comes with being a part of the community in which we live and as part of being a well-rounded person. I am truly grateful for what I have and am ever mindful how quickly circumstances can change. My personal philosophy is that I should try to make a difference rather than trying to make a point.

I have volunteered for yearly clean-ups of local parks, at Bandimere Speedway for charity, the Butterfly Pavilion, coaching gymnastics for Special Olympics, meals and activities at Ronald McDonald House, packed care packages for several organizations, and many other worthy causes. I have also been in leadership rolls as a camp counselor at a camp in the mountains for three years. This summer will be four (I am not going to be staff at camp this summer due to health issues, but I will still be a volunteer there hopefully). Other leadership comes from Girl Scouts, Link Crew, being the National Honors Society president, the vice-president of Future Business Leaders of America, and of course MeepCraft.

I got interested in MineCraft about two to three years ago, playing single-player worlds. Yet, I had not found an adequate amount of joy in playing by myself, or the occasional LAN with my brother; needless to say, I needed a change. Thus, I started looking around different websites, and came upon MeepCraft – a towny server. (I was never really interested in PvP, or Factions, or any of the other hoopla.) My /res date before the restart, was Tuesday, April 6th, 2013. This would mean that I have been on MeepCraft for roughly twenty-three months.

After being urged to apply for staff, I’ve weighed the pros and cons and decided that merely applying cannot hurt me. As well, after about two months, I think I’ve taken a long enough break. I also feel refreshed and ready to return to the team, if permitted. Let’s give this a go; shall we? Why you should be Helper? I’ll start with my history here on MeepCraft and past positions and work around everything.

Experience:
A little more than sixteen months ago, I applied for, and received, the “Helper” position and stayed happily there for eleven weeks. I decided to apply for “Moderator.” I enjoyed being a Moderator for a few months and helping around with higher tasks on the team. I was offered the Super-Mod position May 22nd, 2014 at 4pm, and I gladly accepted the position as a challenge. I left to go help at camp in the middles of June. I was in and out as a Super-Mod due to camp.
I officially came back around the middle of July to see Reggles become a Super-Mod and Slicks an Admin. A few weeks come and go, then I get extremely ill with no way to tell staff members. I then have family emergencies arise. Again, no way to tell staff members.

November 3rd, 2014 comes around, and I’m devastated about being so inactive - I lost my rank as a Super-Mod. I cannot even explain how emotionally wrecked I became after hearing the news at school sitting in English 12. Seeing my phone light up with messages of “OMG WHAT HAPPENED” and “I’m so sorry” and a few other messages that just broke my heart or ripped it into little pieces and let them fly away in the wind. I was very angry/sad as a staff member and really just fell into a state where I felt no longer needed anywhere in the world. (I locked myself in my bathroom and cried over a silly little game. How crazy of me…) I kind of said “suck it up buttercup” and just talked/ranted it out with a few High-Ranks. (Let me tell you that I don’t think that went over well.) A few other incidents happened, and I got enraged how people were acting and saying to the community and other staff members. I eventually stopped talking to most staff members and just did my duty and helped the community. Weeks pass by, and I decided I needed a break. I couldn’t handle the mental/emotional/physical drainage and drama that I had gone through in those fourteen months. I resigned from my Moderator position and took a small break from MeepCraft/MineCraft.

I came back for a day or two, and then another family emergency/issue happened to the point that I couldn’t play MeepCraft/MineCraft at all because I was so worried and mentally questioning everything I did. Watching my brother constantly. I popped in and out of Meep occasionally during this time.

Now that I’ve settled those issues and we have a rhythm/schedule down, I have returned to Meep. I know I’ve been gone for quite a while (two to three weeks), and I haven’t been talking in game much. I really just shut down after the family issue, and I didn’t really talk to too many people, nor did I want to talk. I’ve been kind of walking through MeepCraft recently for about a weekish. I have completely come back to Meep, although there may be some days where I can’t get online at all.

Work Ethic
Outside of the gaming world, I have reached the top one percentile in my graduating class with taking AP and honor classes. I have achieved an un-weighted GPA of 4.0 with a weighted GPA of 4.691 (both cumulative). I try and do my upmost to go above and beyond what I am asked to do.

Dedication
Dedication to MeepCraft can be seen in many forms, and can be understood as several different things to different people. In my opinion, dedication is defined as being devoted to a task or purpose, or having single-minded loyalty or integrity. I have demonstrated dedication in a multitude of ways, but I would like to discuss two of them at this time.

Over the last twenty-three months, since joining Towny, I have only been in three, technically four towns. The first town was run by a friend of my brother. Even though I was immediately moved to assistant because of the relationship, I understood the powers and rules that had come with such a high ranking position in a town. As I had grown to show more promise in being assistant, I moved up from having menial tasks, to having more of a major role in the town. The second town was on old Meep, known as Ezri back then, ran by two people who have helped me expand today. I became assistant in a matter of days of joining that town because I had previous experience with the mayor and helping him build the town so it could open. The third town, again named Ezri, was under the same staff with a few additions who have made me grow as a person. The fourth town, you guessed it, is Dax. I think I’ve had some of the best memories on Meep in Dax.

As an ex-staff-member, I’ve only ever been staff on MeepCraft. I’ve been offered several positions on different servers but refused to take them. MeepCraft is my home and where I feel comfortable. I step out of my comfort zone in life enough as is, and would love to stay in it online.

I think there are more reasons as to why I "should" be a helper; however, I believe I have listed enough for now. What are your weaknesses? I was able to identify several weaknesses at this point. I know I have more, because who doesn’t? Let me know below if you have seen another weakness that I may have missed and need to work on. I want to improve these weaknesses the best that I can, to the ability that I can handle without going on full overdrive.

Mic/Teamspeak Activity:
My TeamSpeak activity is not the best in the world, and some of that comes from not many people being on/ not being comfortable with jumping in and talking to people over a mic that I don’t know. I am not a huge fan of talking to people I do not know in person. One part is that a lot of people judge by the other part of this being that I am very insecure about how my voice sounds. The insecurity about my voice comes from several different areas. Moreover, my normal voice leads people to believe that I am younger than I say I am. It sounds more ‘little-kidish’ because I have short stature, coming in at a whopping five feet at the age of eighteen. I always feel that people will judge me inaccurately if I have a voice of a younger teenager, instead of the voice of an older teenager/adult.

I am also trying to come out and say more when I think I have something important to add to the discussion. If anyone has anything that might be able to help me out with this weakness/insecurity, please let me know. I would love to improve on this!

Inactivity:
Inactivity breaks down into three sections, and the first two are major priorities as the third one will soon be fixed.

The Reoccurring ‘Illness:’
I have had an un-diagnosed medical condition since the third grade. I have seen several doctors at the Children's Hospital in Colorado) and the National Institute of Health in Maryland, USA. So far, there have been no possible diagnoses even though several doctors have tried. Every other week, I get severely sick with a fever ranging from 90 to 108 degrees Fahrenheit (33 degrees Celsius to 42 degrees Celsius) with severe headaches and backaches. During this time, I sleep. My recorded highest duration of sleeping is 104 hours (4.33 days). This means no waking up, no eating, nothing that a normal human being would do. Unfortunately, this places a heavy restriction on any and all activity.

The next step is to travel to the World Health Organization in Israel, but that has not been an option recently due to social and political unrest in the Middle East.

AP Classes:
I decided to take 3 Advanced Placement classes and 2 honors classes this year. This can sometimes affect my activity in game due to the amount of homework I get from each class.

Something that does help with this insane amount of work is that my classes are split into A-Days and B-Days. This translates into having only half my classes on A-Days and the other half on B-Days, with them switching off every other day. I have my two easy classes on one day, then my three hardest classes on the other day. I currently don’t have much work to do as we are finishing out our learning for the year, and AP tests are in May (all of April is studying). Of course, this homework load only affects my in-game activity; I can still be on the forums and on TeamSpeak and still be as successful as I can be.

I have learned how to adjust my time accordingly (time-management) and how to supply enough time for each subject.

Overall:
Before you go “-1”ing my application because I’ve been “gone,” I would like a chance to explain why I was gone. If you look back up to my experience section, I had mentioned why I was gone for two to three weeks. I know I’ve “recently returned,” but I haven’t really been gone. I’ve been stalking forums almost daily, in-game was every once and awhile, and I just recently have been getting back on to TeamSpeak.

I am steadily working on this. I’ve been playing quite a bit over the last few days. While I have not been in shout much (normally topics don’t interest me too much), I’ve been around, getting re-acclimated to Meep, how it works, and what to do while not being a staff member. I’ve found myself doing /check in-game too often. It’s just muscle memory that I cannot get out of for some reason. Please give any other information you might think is useful for us to know: I would like to thank you for reading this application and really considering everything in play. I completely understand if I am denied (hoping for the best that I won’t be) because of my absence and what I have unveiled as my emotions from events that happened as staff. Regardless the rank, I love helping out this fantastic community every way possible.

Remember, if you have any comments/questions that I can help clarify, please leave them down below, or feel free to message me in any means.

Again, thanks for reading!

Have a great day!

*I apologize for any grammatical errors.*