Australian Award Essay, Part 1: How Did You Choose Your Proposed Course and Institution?
Hi, I am a new member here. Upon reading a moderator's post on the "Question about UBC Personal Profile - admission essay" thread in this forum, I knew that I should submit one part of essay at one time. Since the scholarship consists of four essays, I'll divide it into part 1, 2, 3, and 4--in this thread, I'm going to start with the first part.
Pertaining on the question that is already stated on this thread's subject, my answer is as following (up to 2,000 characters limit, according to the Online Information Systems' rule as noted by many people on many different forums and blogs):
Since I was in Elementary School, I had been familiar with children-related philanthropic activities that it ignited my passion to do more to societies as a whole. Of course I was looked down at that time, however, it didn't stop me to believe that even children can change the world for a better future. When I went to university, I learned more about non-profit organisations and accounting for non-profit organisation, which made me fell in love more with non-profit organisations.
Of course, my journey didn't stop there. Not long after I graduated, I took an online Philanthropy course called "Giving MOOC 2.0". At that time, the instructor challenged all of the participants to focus on one philanthropy issue. Considering that Indonesia and Australia have a sustained relationship on education and training, I chose education, specifically, children's education as my central philanthropy issue at that time, since I believe that children are crucial assets of a nation to help build a nation's reputation internationally. However, given that I have graduated from a finance-related (Accounting, to be precise) Bachelor degree, educating finance for children became a more specific central issue. I believe by educating children about finance, children will learn to manage their money from early ages, which will prevent them from being consumptive, encourage them to learn to lead and manage themselves since early ages, and finally, can cooperate with people from all over the world to be the world's agent of change.
Not to forget that I also link my desired contributions with my current career as a freelance writer, in which I learn to transport readers to the descriptive sentences in my writings as I work. All of this leads me to the desire to contribute in financial teachings (related to my educational background) to children through their writings (related to my current career). Upon knowing that Australia has cooperated with Indonesia in education sector and Australia has one of the world's best finance-related subjects, and I have also obtained a Bachelor degree, I chose to continue my study in Australia.
In addition, I had begun on searching Australian universities that offer philanthropy-related courses, in which I later found out that UTS and QUT are the two emerging universities in their philanthropy program that can accommodate my needs to contribute in building a non-profit organisation that work in increasing children's financial literacy by storytelling and article writing.
Should there anything that I have to elaborate, clarify, correct, or parts that I have to delete, please let me know. In addition, some of you might also want to comment about my overall ideas, leadership potential, professionalism, and/or my potential to contribute to the society I live in, and that will be appreciated as well. I am open to any constructive feedback regarding on my current and future scholarship essay's parts. Please do not hesitate to ask if any of you have any questions regarding on my essay.
Thank you very much for all of your efforts in reading my essay. :)
Hi, I am a new member here. Upon reading a moderator's post on the "Question about UBC Personal Profile - admission essay" thread in this forum, I knew that I should submit one part of essay at one time. Since the scholarship consists of four essays, I'll divide it into part 1, 2, 3, and 4--in this thread, I'm going to start with the first part.
Pertaining on the question that is already stated on this thread's subject, my answer is as following (up to 2,000 characters limit, according to the Online Information Systems' rule as noted by many people on many different forums and blogs):
My passion for giving
Since I was in Elementary School, I had been familiar with children-related philanthropic activities that it ignited my passion to do more to societies as a whole. Of course I was looked down at that time, however, it didn't stop me to believe that even children can change the world for a better future. When I went to university, I learned more about non-profit organisations and accounting for non-profit organisation, which made me fell in love more with non-profit organisations.
Of course, my journey didn't stop there. Not long after I graduated, I took an online Philanthropy course called "Giving MOOC 2.0". At that time, the instructor challenged all of the participants to focus on one philanthropy issue. Considering that Indonesia and Australia have a sustained relationship on education and training, I chose education, specifically, children's education as my central philanthropy issue at that time, since I believe that children are crucial assets of a nation to help build a nation's reputation internationally. However, given that I have graduated from a finance-related (Accounting, to be precise) Bachelor degree, educating finance for children became a more specific central issue. I believe by educating children about finance, children will learn to manage their money from early ages, which will prevent them from being consumptive, encourage them to learn to lead and manage themselves since early ages, and finally, can cooperate with people from all over the world to be the world's agent of change.
Not to forget that I also link my desired contributions with my current career as a freelance writer, in which I learn to transport readers to the descriptive sentences in my writings as I work. All of this leads me to the desire to contribute in financial teachings (related to my educational background) to children through their writings (related to my current career). Upon knowing that Australia has cooperated with Indonesia in education sector and Australia has one of the world's best finance-related subjects, and I have also obtained a Bachelor degree, I chose to continue my study in Australia.
In addition, I had begun on searching Australian universities that offer philanthropy-related courses, in which I later found out that UTS and QUT are the two emerging universities in their philanthropy program that can accommodate my needs to contribute in building a non-profit organisation that work in increasing children's financial literacy by storytelling and article writing.
Should there anything that I have to elaborate, clarify, correct, or parts that I have to delete, please let me know. In addition, some of you might also want to comment about my overall ideas, leadership potential, professionalism, and/or my potential to contribute to the society I live in, and that will be appreciated as well. I am open to any constructive feedback regarding on my current and future scholarship essay's parts. Please do not hesitate to ask if any of you have any questions regarding on my essay.
Thank you very much for all of your efforts in reading my essay. :)