SHORT ANSWER QUESTION (APPROXIMATELY 250 WORDS)
"We know that diversity makes us a better university - better for learning, for teaching, and for conducting research."
Share an experience through which you have gained respect for intellectual, social, or cultural differences. Comment on how your personal experiences and achievements would contribute to the diversity of the University of Michigan.
I lived in Puerto Rico since I was five years old. When I first came here I didn't think it was bad until I went to a public school in Eleanor Roosevelt in Hato Rey. Everyone who saw me assumed I was Chinese and harassed me. I was a quiet girl that didn't want to be involved in troubles; so children, even adults, took advantage of my cowardliness and ridiculously emulated Chinese people: bowing to me with hands together and speaking gibberish. It always got on my nerves, but, painfully, I let it go. I knew I could do nothing; it was me against everyone. I thank God very much because later, someone became my friend and she did so much just by staying by my side. Thanks to her, gradually, my classmates and I began to get along.
I am from South Korea and I'm proud of it. Be it not for that girl, I would've closed my heart to these people and myself. My parents were very upset when they realized what I went through, but I thanked them for bringing me here. Although my time in this school was painful, it was also fun and I learned valuable lessons that shaped me to the person I am today. My three years in that school taught me to be wise, patient, brave, a good friend, a person of endurance, and most importantly, it taught me to respect people's differences. Truly, I am grateful to God for giving me the privilege of experiencing all this while I was still young. Nowadays, I am considered to be one of the most intellectual student at the school, my culture is respected and admired by many, and last but not least, I am loved and appreciated.
I believe my experiences and achievements will enable me to bring success to the field that makes the University of Michigan a better university. Diversity, to me, means people's uniqueness. I believe as we grow unique, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others. I look forward to meeting different people, learn from them and display my own differences, with hoping that I can be the light that others can come to with their ideas, visions and dreams, never doubting that blending my talents with those of others can change the world.
"We know that diversity makes us a better university - better for learning, for teaching, and for conducting research."
Share an experience through which you have gained respect for intellectual, social, or cultural differences. Comment on how your personal experiences and achievements would contribute to the diversity of the University of Michigan.
I lived in Puerto Rico since I was five years old. When I first came here I didn't think it was bad until I went to a public school in Eleanor Roosevelt in Hato Rey. Everyone who saw me assumed I was Chinese and harassed me. I was a quiet girl that didn't want to be involved in troubles; so children, even adults, took advantage of my cowardliness and ridiculously emulated Chinese people: bowing to me with hands together and speaking gibberish. It always got on my nerves, but, painfully, I let it go. I knew I could do nothing; it was me against everyone. I thank God very much because later, someone became my friend and she did so much just by staying by my side. Thanks to her, gradually, my classmates and I began to get along.
I am from South Korea and I'm proud of it. Be it not for that girl, I would've closed my heart to these people and myself. My parents were very upset when they realized what I went through, but I thanked them for bringing me here. Although my time in this school was painful, it was also fun and I learned valuable lessons that shaped me to the person I am today. My three years in that school taught me to be wise, patient, brave, a good friend, a person of endurance, and most importantly, it taught me to respect people's differences. Truly, I am grateful to God for giving me the privilege of experiencing all this while I was still young. Nowadays, I am considered to be one of the most intellectual student at the school, my culture is respected and admired by many, and last but not least, I am loved and appreciated.
I believe my experiences and achievements will enable me to bring success to the field that makes the University of Michigan a better university. Diversity, to me, means people's uniqueness. I believe as we grow unique, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others. I look forward to meeting different people, learn from them and display my own differences, with hoping that I can be the light that others can come to with their ideas, visions and dreams, never doubting that blending my talents with those of others can change the world.
