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After playing around with going to Thailand, it got worked out that I could study abroad in Prague. I am so grateful that I ended up in Europe. I met such incredible people and had the kind of experiences I always wanted for myself. The academics of the USAC Prague program, were not as difficult as Goucher’s but the weekend trip we took to Dresden and Nuremberg has had such an impact on me and my knowledge coming into the Human Rights class. I went to Europe with very little knowledge of european culture and history, but I left with a little more history and a lot more culture. The first trip I took was to Berlin, Germany. I had previously visited the concentration camps in the Third Reich and it was a very traumatic experience for me. …show more content…

I literally lived one of my dreams and am so grateful for all that I learned about myself, and the world. Coming back to school this semester, I’ll be honest, I was not looking forward to it. Most of my friends were seniors who graduated and I wasn’t sure how I would entertain myself. But studying for the LSAT answered that question for the first four weeks of school. I thought that I would feel more impacted by the lack of “best friends” that I had on campus but I’m also very over college culture. I feel like I’m ready to move on with my life and start the next chapter. I feel so done with school that I feel like I’m just checking the boxes to go to law school. I don’t really want to evaluate my senior experience because I’ve been very isolationist throughout the process. Which honestly is how I want to be. Senior year has thrown a lot of curveballs at me, from my Granny being sick to TV producers reaching out to me to get home footage and my participation in another TV show documenting my parents, I just feel drained. I feel ready to move on to the next phase of my life. I am so grateful to have this opportunity to study and go to a great school, because I’m very aware how differently my life could’ve turned out based on the beginning of my life. I want to finish writing this latest chapter of my life and see what is next. I’m getting restless. In conclusion, almost three years ago I had my first Peace Studies class with Professor Seble

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