Undergraduate / We are a community with quirks... - University of Virginia (UVA) Supplemental Essay [7]

Thank You so much! I really appreciate the help on both of the essays! :)

Undergraduate / We are a community with quirks... - University of Virginia (UVA) Supplemental Essay [7]

hopefully I understood what you meant with your edits

Like most 17 year olds, I used to complain about school. It's not that I dislike school, I enjoy learning new things, but sometimes when everything piles up I let out a string of complaints. But once I read "I Am Malala" the summer of last year, all of those complaints stopped. Most people know the story of Malala Yousafzai: the girl from Pakistan who got shot by the Taliban fighting for her education. I've always heard about how fortunate I am to have a great education system compared to places around the world, but reading about the daily struggles of a teenage, muslim girl no different than myself really showed me how fortunate I am to receive an education. The story hit even closer to home when I realized that girls face the same struggles in Bangladesh, my home country. I felt uneasy thinking about how lucky I was in the U.S. while so many other girls, girls that could have been me, are struggling for an education back in my home. While i'm here worrying about what college I'll go to, girls in the middle east are scared to go to school. Now, I always voice my opinion for women's' rights, and more equal opportunities for girls. The book showed me how I need to voice my opinions to make some sort of change in the world. Start with spreading my opinions, and work my way up to helping girls around the world get the education they deserve. Malala's story and the thoughts of those girls are what push me harder to work in school and work harder for anything I do; I want to honor all the girls who can't get an education by working to my full potential. And nowadays, I rarely complain about school.

Undergraduate / We are a community with quirks... - University of Virginia (UVA) Supplemental Essay [7]

Thank you for you feedback!

could you look at this essay too? I can't add another thread for some reason but I have a deadline in a few days and would really like to get everything sent in.

1. What work of art, music, science, mathematics, or literature has surprised, unsettled, or challenged you, and in what way?(300 words)

Like most 17 year olds, I used to complain about school. It's not that I disliked school, I enjoy learning new things, but sometimes when everything piles up I let out a string of complaints. But once I read "I Am Malala" the summer of last year, all of those complaints stopped. Most people know the story of Malala Yousafzai: the young girl from Pakistan who got shot by the taliban fighting for her education. But most people don't know her whole story, who she was, where she came from, what life really is like for young girls in Pakistan. The majority of the biography is about the events leading up to her shooting, and reading a first hand account about how poor the education is in those middle eastern countries really came to a shock to me. We've always heard about how fortunate we are to have such a great education system compared to other places in the world, but reading about the daily struggles a teenage, muslim girl no different than myself really showed me how fortunate I am to receive an education. The story hit even closer to home when I realized that girls face the same education struggles in Bangladesh, my home country. If it weren't for my parents coming to America and providing me with the life I have here I wouldn't have the opportunities I do have, like an education and basic rights a lot of women around the world don't have. I try my best to live up to Malala's name and have been working harder in school ever since reading her biography. I'm lucky to have the resources to prosper, now I need to make sure I work to earn that success. And now a days, I never complain about school.