Anthropology Personal Statement

Coming into college, I never thought I would be an art major. I came to the University of Evansville with high hopes of being a nurse. I began the nursing program, but only lasted for a semester, due to anatomy and physiology being awful. I took up computer science, but quickly dropped that after about two weeks due to my grandfather passing away during the first week of the semester, and me having to leave for a week for his funeral. I was ready to drop out of school – I had no friends, stayed in my room all day except for class, and had no idea what I wanted to do with my life. About halfway through my second semester of college, I joined Phi Mu, which gave me hope and friends, and made me want to stay

What is anthropology? This is a question that can be answered in numerous ways, but we are going to define it as simple as possible. If we break the word down into its two components it means the study of human beings. “Anthropo” means human beings or human kind and “logy” or “logia” is Greek for the study or knowledge of something. When we put it all together, it is the study of human beings which can be very broad. Anthropology can be broken down into four subfields: physical anthropology, archaeology, linguistic anthropology, and cultural anthropology.

The American presidential election and your history class made me realize I am not as interested in what influences history as I am about how it gives meaning across temporal and geographic boundaries. Politics made me aware of

1. Why is the idea of disappearing natives a myth? Use a specific quote from the text to support this.

For my summer reading assignment, I read, explored and analyzed the book, Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. I chose this book because psychology and economics have always interested me, and this book specifically looked at the psychological aspect of our economy. I thought it would be an interesting experience to read it. I decided to take AP World History because during my 8th grade year, social studies really started to interest me. My teacher, Mr. Mark Matthews, really made history come alive for me through his teaching, and all of the simulations he used. I found a sincere interest in history and did well. I have never been the best student in my class, but I always do well and find myself interested in the topics

When signing up for classes I hadn’t put much thought into my personal goals for this class, let alone any of my classes and being a liberal arts student my main purpose is to find a subject that clicks, something that challenges me, not only as a student but as a person as well. That’s what I want this class to do for me. I’m not looking for an easy grade, I want a class that forces me to think. All throughout middle school and high school history has been somewhat of a guilty pleasure of mine. And I say guilty pleasure because so many people have discouraged me from choosing the subject as a major in college. The past has always interested me far more than the future. I want to know our origins before I learn about what may possibly be in

Modern Culture instills a misguided perception of why charitable acts are performed. In Alfie Kohn’s article, “ The Wrong Way to Get People to Do the Right Thing,” the author uses research evidence, from newspaper articles, to explain his thesis that rewards and praise promotes charitable acts. This article exposes the sad truth behind the natural tendency for human generosity.

Although I excelled in high school biology and health classes, I knew that choosing a major down that route would never be an option for me. I wanted my major to be one that I was passionate about, making learning something I craved to do. At the end of junior year, my school

I have learned a lot about our History this semester. Much more than I have learned through all my years in public school. It is crazy to see just how skewed the information that we were taught throughout our lives is. Our History classes lacked genuine information about our History, we were really taught only what they wanted us to know and not exactly what had happened in the past. This semester we talked about many subjects that our education system has failed to talk about accurately. For example we talked about Christopher Columbus, the Pilgrims, Slavery, the Civil War, the Progressives, the Gilded Age, World War II, the Cold War and The Vietnam War.

I enjoyed the school subject History cause there so much it has changed and how it changed our life today still using same things from old days  how we go about doing it. Its something different way to explore different ways of living new places like such as here weather is hot and if I travel to Alaska work up north I will be experience lots of snow in which in Alabama sometimes get bit here. It will teach me how  able to survival different things I may face in my life time. Some places maybe heavy populated with Animals like big bears or moose’s like in Alaska and we have here in Alabama such as we have lots of deer.

One day, I hope to be a history teacher, high school, upper high school to be specific (I don’t handle tweens well… and I don’t know how to talk to kids, I know it’s shocking). But high school history doesn’t really tend to emphasize your opinions, your history, your anything. My AP history classes were dark classrooms with seats in perfect rows. I walked in everyday, sat in my assigned seat, took out my notebook, and wrote as my teachers lectured for 45 minutes everyday. Now I love history, I really do, and AP World history was potentially one of my all time favorite classes, but I wasn’t your average high school student, and your average high school student isn’t necessarily a fan of school, let alone ancient civilizations and dates, but

From what I can remember, History has always been my favorite thing to learn about in school, my Senior Year I am taking two individual classes just about government in the United States. In the fourth grade, I had a life-changing experience,

As an aspiring physician and researcher, I am drawn to Northwester's Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. I chose the biological sciences major in order to expand my knowledge about biology. While chemistry, biology, physics are my favorite subjects in school, I also find the development of human cultures to be a fascinating subject and would take anthropology electives at Northwestern to satiate my curiosity. At Weinberg, I am interested in conducting research in order to both expand my knowledge of scientific research and skills and to enhance my undergraduate experience.

I developed an interest in sociology when I first moved to Santa Barbara and started taking my first college course in it. Being fascinated by the many humanitarian and cultural phenomenon the course introduced me to, I decided to take more classes on varying topics pertaining to sociology. I have always liked helping people and trying to understand the world, and the broadness of the subject is what initially drew me in. As I was able to study various groups of people and how everyone is directly or indirectly influenced by society, I started looking at the world differently. I felt as though I had never had the type of insight into my life or the lives of people around me and the new knowledge encouraged me to pursue a degree in the field.

“Too many students aren’t sure what job they could get after four, five, or even six years of studying a certain major and racking up education loans”(255). Singletary is given the fact that numerous students are confused on their own majors even though they have studied for years. And parts of the students even start realizing their majors might be in a hopeless employment situation after they graduate from that particular field. Therefore, before choosing a field of study, it is necessarily worthwhile for students and parents to check out the majors whether in the highest or the lowest unemployment. According to new statistics on unemployment for recent college graduates by The Huffington Post this June, majoring in social science and creative fields, such as anthropology, film, fine art, etc. have earned the top three of the unemployment rate. In contrast, engineering technologies, math, and computer science remain at the top of the employment chart. Alex Tabarrok mentions the harsh unemployment rate in his article, “…More than half of all humanities graduates end up in jobs that don’t require college degrees…”(250). The society has never shown mercy to students who are unlikely to be employed with the majors they have. Graduating without employment must be one of the biggest nightmares for most students; however, selecting an in demand major can surely decrease the chances of being