Florida State University is more than just a world-class academic institution preparing you for a future career. We are a caring community of well-rounded individuals who embrace leadership, learning, service, and global awareness. With this in mind, which of these characteristics appeal most to you, and why?
Obviously, I chose learning:
It is only three pounds of our body, yet it controls one hundred percent of it. It is soft enough to be cut by a butter knife; yet capable to be powerful enough understand the concepts of quantum mechanics, chaos theory, and multivariable calculus. The mind, a center of learning, is the second most important part of a human behind the heart. Learning appeals to me because it can be acquired from not only a textbook but also from others and is constantly taking place.
Although it is common that when a teenager and student hears the word learning, they immediately think of arid classes and elaborate tests; the truth of the matter is that the bulk of our learning comes from our social interactions. The most important credos held dear to oneself are products of his/her environment. For example, I have learned an enormous amount of information about the world from my four-year-old foster brother and two-year-old foster sister. Dandre and Starr have taught me the importance of relationships and support systems in my life. Age, color, and background all differed between my foster siblings and I, yet I never let that change any feelings I had for them. They helped me learn that no one human is better than other based on the simple fact that they make more money or have more material goods. Furthermore, the experiences that I have had with my foster siblings also led me to learn what it is I want to be with my life, and that is to become a psychiatrist.
With that bring said, books cannot simply be overlooked. In my junior year in high school, I fell in love with a book: Myers' Psychology for AP. My first assignment in that AP Psychology class was to read chapter one. As I completed my assignment, I could not stop reading. The idea of the brain, learning, conditioning, synapses, optic nerves all overwhelmed me with interest. I finished reading the book about half way through the year. I then took the books that I had been reading in my English and History classes and began to read them with the different perspective psychology had given me. My fascination of one subject aided me in my learning of others. Learning through Myers' textbook also taught me how to aid my foster siblings insatiable desire for their family by understanding what "attachment" really is.
All in all, it is through knowledge and application of that knowledge that we can accomplish what previous generations only dreamed of. Even if these accomplishments occur in our everyday lives or through life-long ground breaking achievements, a quote from Ali Bin Abi Talib holds to be complete truth in my mind: "There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance."
-A_uu
thanks for all the help and for the read!
Obviously, I chose learning:
It is only three pounds of our body, yet it controls one hundred percent of it. It is soft enough to be cut by a butter knife; yet capable to be powerful enough understand the concepts of quantum mechanics, chaos theory, and multivariable calculus. The mind, a center of learning, is the second most important part of a human behind the heart. Learning appeals to me because it can be acquired from not only a textbook but also from others and is constantly taking place.
Although it is common that when a teenager and student hears the word learning, they immediately think of arid classes and elaborate tests; the truth of the matter is that the bulk of our learning comes from our social interactions. The most important credos held dear to oneself are products of his/her environment. For example, I have learned an enormous amount of information about the world from my four-year-old foster brother and two-year-old foster sister. Dandre and Starr have taught me the importance of relationships and support systems in my life. Age, color, and background all differed between my foster siblings and I, yet I never let that change any feelings I had for them. They helped me learn that no one human is better than other based on the simple fact that they make more money or have more material goods. Furthermore, the experiences that I have had with my foster siblings also led me to learn what it is I want to be with my life, and that is to become a psychiatrist.
With that bring said, books cannot simply be overlooked. In my junior year in high school, I fell in love with a book: Myers' Psychology for AP. My first assignment in that AP Psychology class was to read chapter one. As I completed my assignment, I could not stop reading. The idea of the brain, learning, conditioning, synapses, optic nerves all overwhelmed me with interest. I finished reading the book about half way through the year. I then took the books that I had been reading in my English and History classes and began to read them with the different perspective psychology had given me. My fascination of one subject aided me in my learning of others. Learning through Myers' textbook also taught me how to aid my foster siblings insatiable desire for their family by understanding what "attachment" really is.
All in all, it is through knowledge and application of that knowledge that we can accomplish what previous generations only dreamed of. Even if these accomplishments occur in our everyday lives or through life-long ground breaking achievements, a quote from Ali Bin Abi Talib holds to be complete truth in my mind: "There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance."
-A_uu
thanks for all the help and for the read!