Member Name Dawn Additional In Game Names: DawnoftheMoon xDawney Peridawnyx How old are you? 15 Location: Saint louis, Missouri Do you have TeamSpeak? Yes How many hours per day do you play MeepCraft? (weekdays) 2-3 How many hours per day do you play MeepCraft? (weekends) 4-5 Have you ever been staff on this or any other server? Yes References: Please give IGN's GroovyGrevous, NickxGold, Courtneyyy, Kirby99, DarkKnight49, TechnoTyson, MegaStufOreo, Pmx_, HungryOtaku When did you join Meepcraft? June 27th 2014 Introduction: Hi there! My name is Alex. I currently live in Saint Louis, Missouri. I have a brother and live with my Mom. My hobbies include playing my Oboe, playing video games, and scholar bowl (which is a school organized thing in which we compete in school-based trivia questions based on level of knowledge). I currently have a 4.1 cumulative GPA and help tutor other students in subjects of interest, such as math and science which are usually the most difficult.

Music is kind of a must with me and I don’t think I could live without it. My favorite kinds include Country, classical, and pop. My favorite singer is Taylor Swift (as you have probably seen me say in chat). My biggest dream is to travel to 51 countries in the world, I don’t care which ones. I just want to tell people I’ve been to more countries than there are states in the U.S! I’ve been to 5 so far! I’ve been to France, the U.s, England, the Bahamas, and Germany!

Ever since I was about 12 I have begun to be very involved in my church community and help with a thing called PEP, which is an organization to where we arrange events for people in assisted living with special needs from down syndrome to Alzheimer's disease. I love serving my community, it makes me feel more in touch with my religion and makes me feel great about myself knowing that another person has been given something they might not have received if I had not stepped in. Why should you be Helper? As a helper, you take on a lot of responsibility, and also pressure from lots of aspects of the server, and I really think I’m ready to take that on, mostly because I’ve been able to handle school with better character and determination than last year.

So far this school year I have become more

-Mature

Current pressure of school has allowed me to become more mature and dedicate more time to acting professional in school. In school, my teachers are almost like college professors, and the work we receive makes us act older than we really are. My dad and my mom have also become recently divorced, and that was really hard on me. But I know for myself, that I needed to be a strong component in my mother’s life through her struggles with MS and medical health issues.

I think that pressure, in both of these components has allowed me to further become more mature and compassionate, and especially understanding of other people’s struggles with disease or issues at home. (If anyone needs to talk to me i’m an open ear

-Kind
I’ve made a lot of new friends this year in school! I am heavily involved in extracurriculars including volleyball, scholar bowl, and band. All 3 groups are incredibly different but I treat everyone as they are! I understand that everyone has their differences and I treat everyone at my school as equals, no matter who they are. I am a kind person, and I love to be social and talk, as you have probably observed in chat. I talk to everyone and ask how their day is, because I know that that is an important thing that I like to hear during my day as well.

Outside of my extracurriculars I am also involved in now, NHS (national honor society) which is an organization dedicated to serving your community and becoming a better citizen in urban society. I do service usually during my winter semester, as we are required to dedicate 80 hours (points) of service to the society, and I think that being in NHS has made me a better person. I’ve seen how people live in society, and I’ve worked in soup kitchens around my city and seen what it’s like to have almost nothing.

I know that this is a big trait to have as a helper, because people throw a lot at you from every side and I really wasn’t good at taking this last year, but something about this year is different. I don’t really get offended by what people say about me anymore, which is something that used to bug me a ton.

-Hardworking
All of this pressure is enveloping me in a whole new world or work. The work in high school is absolutely and truly horrific and terribly hard, but it’s starting to prepare me for what it will be like after high school. The work this year has allowed me to see truly, what college will be like, and to prepare for life in the real world.

I know this is a valuable component for helpers, because in order to get work and tasks done you need to have determination, perseverance, and travaillant qualities. In these cases “quality over quantity” so to speak. My teachers expect the very best from me, since I am in all pre-ap and ap classes this year. My work is done to the very best of my abilities, and the product usually reaps very well, in the case of school, good grades. In the case of helper, good ideas and well-done modreqs.

During my time as staff, I put a great amount of time and effort into modreqs and Trello projects. I made an effort to complete 5-8 modreqs a day (on average) with quality of service in mind. I also eagerly participated in Trello projects. I loved participating in these because it helped me get closer involved within the staff team, and allowed me to furthermore show the amount of effort I could put out, with quality work expended. Trellis Is a fantastic way to give the development team ways to make meep even better than it is. -Determined

I live by the quotes “If you can dream it, you can do it!” and “Shoot for the moon, because even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars”. If I set my mind to accomplishing a task I know that I can accomplish it, and even when you fail you learn something from it, like my demotion, in which I learned more about my flaws and how to accept them and to do better, in which this round I am ready to do whatever it takes to prove my worth to the team.

Determination means that effort is put out and these past few months I have made so much effort to improve, through maturity all the way to my attitude. My school grades have improved, I'm captain of my volleyball team now, that, to me, shows determination. What are your weaknesses? -Short-tempered

Over smaller things I get rather annoyed. In picking out certain things people say that I disagree with a lot of things can get to me easier when I do not get my way or my opinion is not heard well enough. I had a lot of disagreements with a lot of people that I wish I could fix but the damage had been done and I regret it very much. While conversing with other people in debates I usually am not very good at debating, as conflicting opinions are very hard for me to debate as I believe my side is usually true.

I'm working to improve on this. A lot of this comes from my chronic depression and my mother's hardships irl. I go to counseling at school and I'm thinking it's helping a lot! I don't have near as many outbursts as I used too, although I still get annoyed very easily. My chronic depression started around last year when my parents went through a rather ugly divorce, and I went through a period of intense emotional trauma and took it out on a lot of people that didn't deserve it.

-Softhearted
This is basically dealing with my emotions and such. I'm a rather kind and gentle person and I don't like seeing people get hurt, especially myself. I don't have walls, and people come and go through my walls so easy and break me down from the inside. I've had a rough past few months and most of my troubles with irl stuff happened around the time of my demotion, where my mom started getting sicker and more depressed and I started to tear up on the inside, where I took control and for my own need to have self worth, I trampled on an admins position of authority and made many other mistakes to make myself feel like I was worth something. I’ve had a very good past few months, but I still get hurt so do easily. It's funny how just a couple words can change almost everything about your day, for better or for worse. The emotional trauma of my parents divorce made me an entirely different person and I think I've recovered now, but I never know when something will pop up that will make me extra moody and cause my tender heart to throb.

A lot of things that could lead to this improving is with the support of the team making me feel worth the position,and knowing I have people there for me when I need them, which I usually only had 2 people my last round! I've gotten better, reconciled with people who I never thought I would and become fantastic friends with them. My tender heart can be good but also my worst enemy sometimes. This can be improved by MYSELF acknowledging my self worth, which is really hard for me sometimes but I'm getting there through counseling and the love of my mother and friends like nickxgold and courtney.

-Stress
One of my final ones.

While it may not seem like stress can hurt someone, because stress can also be a motivator, in my case stress is not a strength. When I undergo periods of stress, like finals for example, I become more depressed and have frequent panic attacks about small things almost weeks before things happen. In school stress makes me study harder, but gives me paranoia about myself because I feel like I'm not doing something right and I'll most likely change something a lot before the product is finished.

A little bit of pressure is fine, but when I'm stressed I simply can not motivate myself to do a lot, and in school this happens a lot.

I don't really know how to improve me getting panic attacks from it really. With finals over this most likely will not be an issue until early may, as stress usually will come with school. I also know that staff work can be stressful, with lots of hours and time that will be expended on making the server better. I've been seeing a counselor about a lot of my issues and I believe that stress will not get to me as easily in the coming months as counseling has been slowly improving my mood swings that I experience during the finals slump. Please give any other information you might think is useful for us to know: I know that I said that I was applying in January, at the time i see no point in sitting aside while there is currently 1 helper, I believe that I am a very valuable asset to the server and that if I am promoted I will benefit the team instead of hurting it, merely waiting until January is not right, because I can start working now. I have been ready for this for months. Thank you for your time and consideration on my helper application and I hope that I get to start serving this server and changing it further to the way it once was again soon.

If you need to contact me further add me on Snapchat @that.onealex. I hope I get the chance to serve you all again soon! Have a great day.