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Respond to the short essay prompt using no more than 400 words.
Why do you want to incorporate our interdisciplinary liberal arts curriculum into your undergraduate experience? We are interested in learning about what motivates you and what unique contributions you might make to our community.
Seeing three long blades circle around perpendicular to the ground lit my desire to start my own business. It made me realize that I, like the owner of the wind farm to which that turbine belonged, could run my own environmental technology company. I had been interested in environmental issues for as long as I can remember, but it wasn't until then that I knew what I could do to solve them. In order to run a successful start-up technology company, I will need an education that will not just teach me about how to conduct business, but that will teach me about the complex social, environmental, and economic systems and problems of the world and its people. I will have to understand these issues to properly develop, market, and sell my product, whatever it may be. Additionally, to comprehend and contribute to the technology at the center of my business I will need to be knowledgeable in a range of science-related subjects that go beyond what is taught in the basic college curriculum. To improve the world's environmental state through the power of capitalism I will need an education from the UW Honors Program.
Being a social science nerd, I ravenously devour any information on demographic distributions, commercial trends, and past events that I can get my hands on. Though I plan to use my college education to prepare for a career in business, I would not be happy with it unless I get to pursue my passion for combining the study of history, geography, and economics. If I got to take UW Honors courses where I could examine these subjects in context of one another, I would be ecstatic. As I have never had the opportunity to formally study linguistics and the spread and evolution of language as an indicator of human migration (though I have done some independent research), I would love to enroll in an Honors course related to that subject as well. The enthusiasm I have for filmmaking would drive me to take courses that incorporate film with the humanities or social sciences, too. My affinity for social sciences would provide the UW and its Honors Program with my distinctive views on issues, which I have arrived at through synthesis of existing information; my interest in film would provide the university and program with a student who can communicate ideas through a unique medium.
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Respond to the short essay prompt using no more than 400 words.
Why do you want to incorporate our interdisciplinary liberal arts curriculum into your undergraduate experience? We are interested in learning about what motivates you and what unique contributions you might make to our community.
Seeing three long blades circle around perpendicular to the ground lit my desire to start my own business. It made me realize that I, like the owner of the wind farm to which that turbine belonged, could run my own environmental technology company. I had been interested in environmental issues for as long as I can remember, but it wasn't until then that I knew what I could do to solve them. In order to run a successful start-up technology company, I will need an education that will not just teach me about how to conduct business, but that will teach me about the complex social, environmental, and economic systems and problems of the world and its people. I will have to understand these issues to properly develop, market, and sell my product, whatever it may be. Additionally, to comprehend and contribute to the technology at the center of my business I will need to be knowledgeable in a range of science-related subjects that go beyond what is taught in the basic college curriculum. To improve the world's environmental state through the power of capitalism I will need an education from the UW Honors Program.
Being a social science nerd, I ravenously devour any information on demographic distributions, commercial trends, and past events that I can get my hands on. Though I plan to use my college education to prepare for a career in business, I would not be happy with it unless I get to pursue my passion for combining the study of history, geography, and economics. If I got to take UW Honors courses where I could examine these subjects in context of one another, I would be ecstatic. As I have never had the opportunity to formally study linguistics and the spread and evolution of language as an indicator of human migration (though I have done some independent research), I would love to enroll in an Honors course related to that subject as well. The enthusiasm I have for filmmaking would drive me to take courses that incorporate film with the humanities or social sciences, too. My affinity for social sciences would provide the UW and its Honors Program with my distinctive views on issues, which I have arrived at through synthesis of existing information; my interest in film would provide the university and program with a student who can communicate ideas through a unique medium.
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