Application Essay for School

I will contribute to the MSOE Community with my ambition and sense of civic duty; these characteristics were created by my passion for learning, my collaborative skills, awareness, and my assertive character.

My whole life I have been invested in doing what I love, focusing on my true passions, as well as finding new ones. I have been very involved in my high school, and have been lucky enough to be a part of multiple clubs and activities. Without these activities, my high school experience and life would be a lot different. I have been an active drama club member, a part of ‘Bottlecappers,’ a club advocating anti-drug, alcohol, and bullying to younger students in my district, and many other community service opportunities. I am lucky to have the opportunity to be in these activities, as they have shaped me to be the young adult I am today.

My passion for mathematics was fixed at the age of ten, on the morning that my mathematics teacher told I would be sitting the Junior Maths Challenge, 'as practice for when you are older'. As I nervously started to answer the questions, a whole world began to open before me. I revelled in the problem solving, answering questions of a nature I had not seen before. My teachers were delighted when I emerged from the exam hungry for more. Since then I have consistently demonstrated my aptitude, achieving gold awards through to senior level, and scoring highly in the European Kangaroo.

Being born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, I was exposed to many different cultures. A few of which were Hispanics and German. They both had different languages and customs. My mom would take us to a festival in San Antonio yearly that was called the “Texas Folklife Festival”. There, our family would experience many different cultures with singing, dancing, food, art, and language. Our family enjoyed learning about the different places others came from and how they celebrated their heritage. Learning to appreciate where others came from and their back ground, gave me a better appreciation for differences.

I have lived in two different countries before moving to the United States of America; the challenging things about moving into a new country is learning the language, culture, and getting used to the new food. By the age of 15, I had learned to speak three different languages: Amharic, which is spoken in Ethiopia; Swahili, which is the native langue of Kenya, and a little bit of English. English is one of the hardest languages for me to learn and speak, because English is different from my native language in pronunciations, tone, and English has so many different words, which have the same meanings. Once I moved to the U.S.A, I had to learn how to speak English well in order to communicate with people at work, school and to socialize in the community. Attending college to learn English and other cultures is very important to me. For example, when I am attending collage, I will be meeting people from all over the world with different cultures and backgrounds. For instance, last semester I met an Indian student in my math class, she was very friendly and open indeed. She taught me a lot about her culture. The most interesting example is the one she mentioned about their wedding ceremony. The traditional wedding includes painting of the feet and hands of the bride, and this tradition is called Mehndi. Learning about her culture has allowed me to understand and appreciate the culture differences we possess. I

My love for finance blossomed when I enrolled in AP Economics during my junior year in high school. It grew when I attended a Yale Global Scholars Program and interned at a wealth management firm for two years. Finally, after I started working in a startup during my freshman year, I knew investment banking was my true passion.

I love traveling. I love seeing new places and experiencing new ways of life. Unfortunately, my travel list is short, but I like to grow my knowledge of cultures non-the less. I like to join multiple communities in Canberra. Furthermore, I know what it’s like to be a member of a nondominant culture (Rychly and Graves, 2012). I know what it’s like to be an outside and to struggle to communicate in a language other than your own. I remember what it was like to tour east Asia and try basic communication. However, I do admit that I need to learn more about how culture affects my students learning style (Rychly and Graves,

A student will gain the ability to apply international food and culture knowledge, immediately, and to all facets of life. In this diverse world that we live in, to understand all that influences the choices of those individuals that we encounter, on a day to day basis, increases the students’ compatibility and empathy. Important global information is also useful to all students, not only providing the building blocks of culture and tradition, but also the struggles that are faced in nourishing the inhabitants of different areas of our country and the world.

In my school, I made sure to promote diversity and welcome students. Since middle school I became interested in learning about different cultures and languages. I was fascinated with the variety of cultures and how each of them differs from my own. The beauty of languages enraptured me, how each syllable rolled off the tongue delicately. The mystery behind the languages as I am compelled to listen to a language I do not understand. My interest in culture and language drew me to join Global Buddies in my high school.

The SDSU Food Pantry Project aims to meet to goals of decreasing food insecurity on the campus of SDSU and increase the knowledge of nutrition. Bridgett Tuschen will be the project director of this program and will teach the nutrition classes. This program is needed because food insecurity affects over 15 million individuals worldwide and it can affect the future of students. Using a food pantry and nutritional classes we hope to educate individuals in making wise dining choices and provide food for food insecure individuals. This program will be focused on helping individuals that are freshmen and sophomores so that we can give them the information they need to advance in college. Our program will last for a year in which we will administer

I started developing a strong interest in finance during my undergraduate studies. My interest in finance was first aroused during my first time investing part of my monthly scholarship in Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange. Since then, I became

To learn from another that is not like you, that is from another country, gives you the opportunity to acquire knowledge that opens your eyes and lets you better understand the world around you. That can definitely be said after conducting my interview for the Cross-Cultural Interaction Report. I had the pleasure of meeting and interviewing Blanchefort Djimsa, a Food Science major, who is from the country of Chad which is located in Central Africa. Blanchefort is from the city of Moundou, the third largest city, which is in the South of Chad. Here on scholarship, he is attending Oklahoma State University to further his education. Blanchefort told me about his country and gave me a different perspective about Chad.

As a teenager I had a professor who taught economics with practical examples by sharing profiles of preeminent business leaders. He continually reinforced the point that most of them started early in their careers and shared a dogged focus for self-improvement. Realizing my acumen for business and finance, I decided to learn as much as I could working full-time in banking, insurance, and investments at large financial institutions including JPMorgan Chase while pursuing my Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration at the University of Texas at San Antonio. These roles taught me to work systematically and played a significant role in my ability to master the concepts presented in the classroom.

My interest in cultures started in my childhood. I was intrigued by the people and customs that were different from my own. I treated this interest as a hobby until I started to attend college when I took an anthropology class. The anthropology class made me realize that I could mold my interests into a career, but I didn’t really know how. What I did know was that I was passionate about my studies and that culture was important, even outside of what my first Anthropology professor called the “For Your Information Field.”. If there was one thing that I learned from every culturally focused class, it was that the culture a person lives in is a part of them. Our brains are marinated in our culture from the moment that we are born. When I had this realization, it was a natural progression for me to consider the role of culture in pre-college education in the context of the U.S. as a multicultural country and an increasingly globalized world. It is with this in mind that I pursued a Bachelor’s of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies combining primarily Anthropology and Cultural Studies and wish to pursue a Masters of Teaching to become the best educator I can be.

The choice, itself, to study business that is, was an effort in mere practicality. Taking note of bleak outlook of the financial standing of liberal arts majors and the rigors of advanced science and mathematics of engineering course work, I quickly chose business as my course of study. This schooling could provide me with the foundations of starting and maintaining a financial enterprise of my own, an economic engine to drive my progeny in to prosperity. It may take a great idea, product, or invention to spark the genesis of a company; however it is business savvy which allows them to become long lasting institutions rather than an economic “flash in the pan.” It was also along this line of thinking that lead me further into specifying my business discipline to accounting. Management seemed too awash in gray areas to hold my focus. The Impossibilities of quantifying effects of concepts, for instance synergy, which relates that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, boggled my mind and seemed futile to study from a text book. Finance attracted me initially, since its basis was numbers and I am somewhat mathematically inclined, but I quickly realized that there wasn’t much concrete in finance. Most of it is based on projections. Marketing held my attention the longest. I‘ve spent countless hours trying to understand just how the marketing man has mesmerized me with his commercials. There are at least 20 whose scripts I could recite verbatim at a moment’s notice.