Growing up in a Syrian Christian family I was brought up with values that are more progressive than the ones seen in the other Indian communities. My parents valued diversity in knowledge ever since my childhood and made sure I was learning from different sources on the web, books and TV. Having lived for 17 years in culturally and racially heterogeneous Qatar, I learned to appreciate the various cultures of the world, enabling me to adapt to and learn from diversity. I tried to involve myself in team activities where I can get to interact with as many people from various backgrounds so I can keep learning about people. This interest helped me become an effective leader both in school and at work, proficient in certain extra-curricular activities, such as debating, quizzing, Model UN and online content writing, and involved in community service.
Supervising a team of 25 students and running school events as the Head Boy of my school, taught me how to manage people and resources since a young age. I further developed as a leader when I co-created and managed the Model UN event. Since I handled the marketing, my team promoted the event on online media and in different colleges, spreading word of the event among the Model UN community. I became the chief designer and editor of the conference newsletter, which kept all the participants updated on the developments of the event. Such experiences confirmed that I have the potential to become a manager as I learned to use these experiences in my professional life where I mentor many employees and do quality supervision of a team based in Bangalore.
Besides, I involved myself in community events since my school days as I believe, along with helping the society, one can see the value of people when they do service without looking for personal benefits. I have led my class in school to do mangrove plantation, beach cleanup and water conservation awareness program. This involvement continued in college as I became a member of the National Service Scheme and helped to carry out the plastic free campus initiative. Now when my company started it first CSR initiative 'Samaritan', I became one of the founding members.
Finally, I took up writing long content on the quora.com, which is a blogging and Q&A website. Though I started off writing in a lackluster manner, since the past year the quality of my content became tremendously better. My followers grew by almost 150% since January 2015. Besides in the past three months the total views my content had was around 1 million. Many of my articles went viral, especially my eulogy to a crusader against corruption trended for two days, getting around 13K upvotes and 350K views. Also another article on the defensive capabilities of Switzerland was published on the 'The Independent'.
If admitted to the college, I will bring my dedication to learn, enthusiasm in extracurricular activities, and a diverse experience as displayed in this essay, thus adding a dash of "masala" to the college community
Supervising a team of 25 students and running school events as the Head Boy of my school, taught me how to manage people and resources since a young age. I further developed as a leader when I co-created and managed the Model UN event. Since I handled the marketing, my team promoted the event on online media and in different colleges, spreading word of the event among the Model UN community. I became the chief designer and editor of the conference newsletter, which kept all the participants updated on the developments of the event. Such experiences confirmed that I have the potential to become a manager as I learned to use these experiences in my professional life where I mentor many employees and do quality supervision of a team based in Bangalore.
Besides, I involved myself in community events since my school days as I believe, along with helping the society, one can see the value of people when they do service without looking for personal benefits. I have led my class in school to do mangrove plantation, beach cleanup and water conservation awareness program. This involvement continued in college as I became a member of the National Service Scheme and helped to carry out the plastic free campus initiative. Now when my company started it first CSR initiative 'Samaritan', I became one of the founding members.
Finally, I took up writing long content on the quora.com, which is a blogging and Q&A website. Though I started off writing in a lackluster manner, since the past year the quality of my content became tremendously better. My followers grew by almost 150% since January 2015. Besides in the past three months the total views my content had was around 1 million. Many of my articles went viral, especially my eulogy to a crusader against corruption trended for two days, getting around 13K upvotes and 350K views. Also another article on the defensive capabilities of Switzerland was published on the 'The Independent'.
If admitted to the college, I will bring my dedication to learn, enthusiasm in extracurricular activities, and a diverse experience as displayed in this essay, thus adding a dash of "masala" to the college community