Rutgers Essay Prompt: Rutgers University is a vibrant community of people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences. How would you benefit from and contribute to such an environment? Consider variables such as your talents, travels, leadership activities, volunteer services, and cultural experiences. Only personal essays submitted via our website will be considered. You may enter a maximum of 3800 characters including spaces.
Please help with my grammar and shifts in tenses. I tend to do that a lot yikees!
Growing up as a second generation immigrant in this large melting pot, I was exposed to many different ethnicities and cultures. Although I am born an American, I do not forget or neglect my Indian heritage. In fact, I always maintain a steady balance between both American and Indian traditions and manage to intermingle them to create a diverse community.
My initial cultural diffusions involved bringing my American friends to Indian events and my dance performances. This desire of mine to accustom my American friends with the Indian culture then extended to an idea which would impact my community as a whole. My idea was to introduce Hindi, my native language, as a foreign language in my school district. First I contacted the president of the Bridgewater-Raritan Board of Education president, Mr. Arvind Mathur, who also happened to be an Indian. With administrative approval, I started a petition to gain support for my cause. I was not expecting to gain anymore signatures than those of my friends'. A week after I released and advertised my petition, I already had hundreds of signatures. After decent publicity in local grocery stores and through the help of my parents, I decided to go to TV Asia, a South-Asian broadcasting channel centralized in Edison, New Jersey. TV Asia broadcasts news, current events, and television series to South-Asians all across North America. Upon my arrival, I received a position as an intern for the summer and I thought it was a good idea to introduce my project to them. My idea allowed them to develop a new program for a television series which they would call, Hindi Now. This show would teach young Indian children the language and I was proud to be a part of the development of that show. I never envisioned this initial idea of mine to go this far but it landed me with an internship and a place in the Indian community.
This is the kind of spirit and culture I would like to contribute to the diverse Rutgers community. Through this community, I will gain a broader sense of various cultures and traditions while spreading my own. Through contributions of various multicultural students, the vibrant Rutgers community will flourish.
Please help with my grammar and shifts in tenses. I tend to do that a lot yikees!
Growing up as a second generation immigrant in this large melting pot, I was exposed to many different ethnicities and cultures. Although I am born an American, I do not forget or neglect my Indian heritage. In fact, I always maintain a steady balance between both American and Indian traditions and manage to intermingle them to create a diverse community.
My initial cultural diffusions involved bringing my American friends to Indian events and my dance performances. This desire of mine to accustom my American friends with the Indian culture then extended to an idea which would impact my community as a whole. My idea was to introduce Hindi, my native language, as a foreign language in my school district. First I contacted the president of the Bridgewater-Raritan Board of Education president, Mr. Arvind Mathur, who also happened to be an Indian. With administrative approval, I started a petition to gain support for my cause. I was not expecting to gain anymore signatures than those of my friends'. A week after I released and advertised my petition, I already had hundreds of signatures. After decent publicity in local grocery stores and through the help of my parents, I decided to go to TV Asia, a South-Asian broadcasting channel centralized in Edison, New Jersey. TV Asia broadcasts news, current events, and television series to South-Asians all across North America. Upon my arrival, I received a position as an intern for the summer and I thought it was a good idea to introduce my project to them. My idea allowed them to develop a new program for a television series which they would call, Hindi Now. This show would teach young Indian children the language and I was proud to be a part of the development of that show. I never envisioned this initial idea of mine to go this far but it landed me with an internship and a place in the Indian community.
This is the kind of spirit and culture I would like to contribute to the diverse Rutgers community. Through this community, I will gain a broader sense of various cultures and traditions while spreading my own. Through contributions of various multicultural students, the vibrant Rutgers community will flourish.