Best Posts in Thread: Helper Application from xXAdotXx

Member Name xXAdotXx

Additional In Game Names: matter101 (me and my brother used to share and account before I got my own)

How old are you? 15

Location: Ontario, Canada (EST)

Do you have TeamSpeak? Yes

How many hours per day do you play MeepCraft? (weekdays) 1-3

How many hours per day do you play MeepCraft? (weekends) 2-8 (maybe more, depends on the day)

Have you ever been staff on this or any other server? No

References: Please give IGN's Klitcher, Summrs, quirkybear, Matter101, bobblena42 and supercookies44

When did you join Meepcraft? Late 2013 to early 2014

Introduction: Hello all! I'm xXAdotXx, but you can just call me Adot. I live in Ontario, Canada, and I am in Grade 10 (or in my sophomore year, if that's what you call it). Some of my favourite subjects in school include French, English and science. I really want to live in Montreal for a while when I graduate post-secondary school, so I intend on taking French all throughout high school. In the future, I'm thinking of either a career in English, probably something like an editor or a publisher, or sports medicine; something like a physiotherapist. In my Grade 9 year, I was on the honour roll for both semesters, and I'm hoping to achieve the same this year. I'm not involved in any clubs in school, per se, but I am actively involved in school sports. I don't play a sport in the fall season, so I can have some time to get myself organised for the start of the school year. Winter season is my absolute favourite, because it means I get to play hockey with my school friends. In the winter season, I play for the varsity girls hockey team. For school hockey I play forward; left wing to be specific. During the summer season, I play for the varsity girls soccer team, and I play goalie for that team. Last year, I was nominated for the Rookie of the Year award for both teams for our school's athletic banquet. I won the Rookie of the Year for hockey, but not for soccer. Outside of school, I play rep hockey in the winter and house league soccer in the summer. I just recently made the Midget BB team for my hockey organisation, which is the second tier team. Hockey has been a part of my life since I was about 7 years old, and I want it to stay with me until the day I die. It's taught me a lot about myself, and every year it's different, yet familiar. There's something about slapshotting a puck that really relieves stress., and something about smushing some sassy chick into the boards that just takes the anger right out of ya. Soccer in the summer is just something I do to keep active. As well, I run occasionally with my mom.

Apart from school and sports, some of my hobbies include reading, writing, listening to music, watching Netflix or YouTube, hanging out and talking with my friends and gaming. I want to talk about writing, because it is something that I really enjoy and want to pursue in the future. Before I started writing, my mind was always filled with ideas of dystopian worlds, and I found myself daydreaming a lot. Once I started to put my ideas to paper, I've been more focused, and my head isn't crammed full with writing ideas. Onto gaming, some of my favourite games are Assassin's Creed, Uncharted, Mortal Kombat, the Sims and Minecraft. One of my all-time favourite games is Minecraft. I discovered the PE version first and I fell in love right from the start. You can literally do anything in this game. It's a little mind blowing. And it keeps getting better with every update (well maybe not 1.9, but that's a whole different topic). Minecraft has just been a great creative output for me, and I am so glad to have discovered it.

Now, this brings me to my time on Meepcraft. I can't really pinpoint to exact time I found Meep, but I think it was mid to late 2013 (me and by brother used to share an account, and I played on that one before I joined Meep on my current account). I was a little on and off in 2014, in terms if playing time, but early this year I rediscovered it, and was instantly addicted. There's something about this server that makes me smile. Every time I log on, I can't help but get excited. What will Meep have to offer today? Who knows! Of course, one of the biggest things I love about this server is the absolutely amazing community. Ever since I started to get more active in global chat, forums and on TeamSpeak, I realized how much I was missing out on in the past. I've made lots of new friends, thanks to Meep, as well as bonded with existing ones. Everyone on this server has something unique to offer. You all have jokes to crack, a story to tell, or even just some small talk to make.

I started to take an interest in being a Helper at the beginning of the summer, and over the past few months I've been researching and creating my application. I can go on, but this intro is already too long.

Why should you be Helper? After months of pondering, I've picked some traits about myself that I believe make me a good candidate for being a Helper. My leadership skills, my organisation skills and my maturity.
I've had lots of experience with being in a position of leadership. I would say that I am a natural born leader, and I love to be in charge. I babysit for friends and family whenever needed, and was a kindergarten helper back in elementary school. As well, starting mid-October I will be volunteering for a fundamental hockey organisation that teaches little girls the basics about hockey. Also, I refereed U9/10 and U12 houseleague soccer this past summer. The U12's had attitude sometimes, which caused a bit of a difficulty at the beginning, but as I progressed I was able to prove my point that I am the referee, and what I say goes. Not only did the players have attitude, but the coaches. Coahes would try and argue calls, but I was able to show them that I made the right call. This means I can be firm and strict, but friendly and accommodating when it's needed. I am good with kids, which is quite a large fraction of Meepcraft. I have a lot of patience when it comes to helping kids, as well as older players. I have been to leadership camps and classes where I've literally been taught what a good leader is. As well, A few years ago I was granted the title of one of three Assistant Captains of my hockey team. From that experience, I learned what it was like to be in charge of a decent amount of people. Not to mention that they were rowdy hockey girls. As well, I learned how to take charge in situations with little to no organisation. I also figured out how to properly deal with people who broke rules. Lots of the time it was inter-team drama. An example of my leadership on Meepcraft, is that I am the mayor of a town that I started back in February. The number of residents wavers between 15 and 30 people. I've just recently had to deal with a case of theft in my town, and I was able to settle the problem. As well, in the past I've had many town rule violations, and I was able to deal with them in the proper and professional way, according to the town rules I have set in place. I take being a mayor seriously, because being in charge of a town is something that I can learn a lot from, and those lessons can be transferred into real-life situations.

Moving on, I am a very organised person. I am always one to hand in assignments and papers for the due date. I am also able to manage my time very well, to plan my night. For example, let's say I have hockey at 8:00. I'll do some of my homework at lunch, as well as work on it in class. If there is anything left, I do it immediately when I get home, and still have time for an hour or so of Minecraft. Last year, I was able to play on two competitive hockey teams, keep up with school work and still score all above 80's on all of my classes. During all of that, I was still able to have time each night to go on my computer. There isn't really any other way to elaborate on this, so I'll leave it there.

Lastly, my maturity. I consider myself mature for my age, and I've been in quite a few situations what require lots of maturity. I won't get into the depressing details, but I will tell you guys that I've dealt with some pretty sad times and still am able to maintain a smile on my face when I wake up in the morning. I've had people come and go. Over time, I've lost good friends, dealt with probably too much ridiculous girl drama that has escalated way too far, I've lost loved ones, and it's molded me into the person I am today. Tough experiences were used as lessons. I learned how to be mature before I even knew what maturity was. I still have fun whenever I get the chance, because I more or less missed out on quite a bit in times of trouble. I'll stop with all the mushy gushy sad stuff now. Again, I'll mention the point that I have a town of my own that I run mostly on my own, and I am able to keep it in order. I am very proud of my town, and hope one day to see it grow into a big city (my gosh do I sound like a mom). I also want to mention my mind-over-matter mindset. Another way you could say this is that I am a determined person, and when I put my mind to something, I will put my best interest into it. Overall I feel like I am a responsible person, and I feel like the next step in my Meep career is to be a staff member. I believe it will be an awesome learning experience for me.

What are your weaknesses? Again, months of pondering. These are some things that I personally think are my weaknesses. TeamSpeak/ confidence in speaking, my inexperience, and my independence.

First, TeamSpeak. I go on TeamSpeak as much as I can, don't get me wrong. The problem isn't that. The problem is that I have trouble with having enough confidence to actually join a chat room, and I sometimes just end up sitting in the lobby listening to the lady say "User entered your channel" or "User left your channel". This goes hand in hand with being shy. In global chat on the server, it's different. You aren't actually talking. TeamSpeak is something I only got a little while ago, and I'm still getting used to talking with real people (wow I sound like the world's biggest introvert). Once I start talking though, I am able to get along nicely with other Meepers and I start to feel more and more comfortable as the conversation goes on. I am improving quite quickly with this weakness, and I'm gaining confidence as I meet more and more people.

Second, my inexperience. I have not been staff on a server, let alone applied for staff on any server, so I don't know any commands; I don't know anything really. With that, I am a quick learner and am able to pick up things fast once they are taught to me. As well, I know tons of commands on the server itself, and would be able to help right off the bat in that way. I have also been doing a little research to introduce myself to Prism and how it works. Over the past week I've been searching YouTube tutorials and such to learn the basics about it. I know that new staff are taught these commands, this is more or less just a heads up that I'm a noob when it comes to this stuff. But I am eager and willing to put time into this so I can further my abilities as a Minecrafter in general, and develop some new skills that will be useful in the future.

Lastly, my independence. For me, I'd say it's a weakness. I always prefer to work alone when it comes to projects and such in school. I don't like to work in groups that much (unless it's a group of my friends, or people I know work well), because I want to be sure we do an awesome job on whatever we are doing. When I work on my own, I am sure that I can get work done, have quality work done, and also make sure that I am the one responsible for anything if it goes wrong. Like instead of one person in the group making a mistake, and everyone losing a mark, independently I would lose a mark because I made a mistake, and I can learn from that and improve, rather than placing the blame on someone else, which I hate doing. It makes me feel just more secure, I guess. This kinda relates back to the shyness. Lots of the time I just silently do the work while others make conversation. Even with people I know I find it hard to talk with them! Wow! I am awkward! With my independence, I am able to work with people well who have the same drive or goal as I do. I always try my best to include everyone in decisions we make in the group. Recently I was in a situation where I was in a group that did literally no work at all, and I ended up doing all the work. It stressed me out to a breaking point, and it was the most stressed I'd been in months. But when I do things like do all the work, I basically dig myself into a hole. But once again, all of these weaknesses are things I try my best to work on as much as I can, so that one day I'll be able to overcome them.

Please give any other information you might think is useful for us to know: If you got through my app, the props to you man. I wrote an essay. But I can't help it. So good job if you made it through. If not, still props, because you're probably still pretty cool. And thank you all for reading my app! Also, if you have questions, feel free to shoot me a /mail in game or start a conversation with me in forums.

 

Ill vote when im done reading. Dont worry I just hit chapter 27