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Advice on my GCSU Entrance Essay

Essay Prompt;

“As part of our mission to provide students with a liberal arts education, Georgia College strives to create an atmosphere that instills in students exceptional qualities of mind and character including respect for human diversity and individuality.  Given your own individual background, life experiences, and personal identity, how will you contribute to the overall diversity of the student body at Georgia College?”

My Essay;

I am unique in the way I process ideas and values. I grew up with a Hispanic mother and a Caucasian father, so I got to experience two different temperaments and world views growing up. My father is an engineer and a graduate of Carnegie Mellon, and is an extremely analytical and logical person. My mother is the exact opposite, placing far more emphasis on emotion, abstract ideas and values. From my dad I learned the importance of analytical skills, and from my mom I learned to consider more than just logic. After all, as my mother reminded me, genetic manipulation is a eminently logical concept; but one must also consider the moral aspect.

Despite their two very different viewpoints, my parents were united in their support of critical thinking, and thus I learned to evaluate ideas both logically and emotionally, taking the strengths of both into the process of evaluation. I don’t hold ideas merely because I think they feel right, nor do I hold views simply because they make the most logical sense. Both values are an integral part of the way I process new ideas and values. I apply this to every aspect of my life; as a student, as a classmate, and as a person.

My parents chose to homeschool me, and through homeschooling I learned to love learning, and to combine it with critical thinking. I enjoy discussing anything and everything. I will consider any idea based on it’s own merits, and I love nothing better than to have a good conversation where I can challenge ideas, or have my own ideas challenged. Part of the reason I love college is because there is a so much more opportunity for interaction with the teacher and with other students from different backgrounds, with different ideas. Socrates said “The unexamined life is not worth living” and interacting with others, sharing and learning others ideas and beliefs, allows you to examine who you are. It serves to challenge, change, and strengthen ones own beliefs. I don’t care if someone is different from me, or if they don’t agree with all my views. I like to walk away knowing something more about them and the way they view the world. My upbringing and education have made me a unique individual, and if admitted to GCSU, I know I can contribute positively to the environment of diversity at GCSU.

Heeding the Call

This is a really neat quiz, for anyone who thinks the world still needs warriors.

http://wolfhut.org/cgi-bin/warrior-test.cgi

Your sphere is Guardian (Person of great Love and Altruism), and your class is Rogue (Precise and Unhindered).

You are a Protector.

You won’t let anything or anyone threaten the ones you love if you have anything to say about it — and you aren’t afraid to back that up by any means possible. You might get your hands dirty in your life. You might do things that more lawful people would question. But there is no doubt in your mind that what you are doing is right, and you will have no regrets. To be a Protector is to shed many layers of “status quo,” of “morality,” and, to a degree, of honor, in order to dedicate yourself to the protection of your love in any way you can. You are a truly rare breed. You are loved in return for your great dedication by the people who value you. You know how to keep secrets, and uphold your word.

Dark Poetry – I mean seriously, what other kind could you see me writing?

“A Snowglobe I Carry..”

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Winter preserved within glass prism

The carolers always sing-

Trapped within their tiny prison

Forced smiles forever cling..

Their faces weary with good cheer,

Wrapped warm against the cold,

They stand gripped by nameless fear-

For they never shall grow old.

It is the fear of eternity…