Undergraduate / I brought Kiara into my family: UF ESSAY [3]

In the space provided, please write a concise narrative in which you describe a meaningful event, experience or accomplishment in your life and how it will affect your college experience or your contribution to the UF campus community.

Along the years animals have come and gone into my life. A few years back, I brought Kiara into my family. Kiara is my pet cat. She was a stray cat when I found her; I saved her and brought her into my house. Then about four years ago, I started taking care of two stray cats that would just sleep in my backyard. I have fed them and gave them water since then. One of the cats got pregnant soon after Hurricane Katrina hit. She had three kittens, but one was not able to survive the conditions. As a result to one of the kitten's death, I took the other two kittens to the North Miami Humane Society where they would be adopted by a family who could take good care of them.

From events like this, people have come to a conclusion that I am a generous and caring person. They figured that if I care enough about animals to help them out and give them my attention, that I would be the same with people. This can affect my contribution to the UF campus because if someone needs a hand they will think of me. I can be of much assistance to people who need it. I am always willing to lend out my help. I think my campus life would be stellar if I get to meet all these people and have that tight of a relationship with them that they can come to me for help whenever they want.

Adding me to the student body would not just be an advantage to UF. I would be an add-on to the thousands of bighearted students in the community, thus making the school look even better because every person counts. If UF would just have more people who are caring and would give to the community, who knows, maybe UF can have the best campus community in the nation!