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Personal Statement : ' The Revolutionary War ' And ' My Cat ' Essay

Decent Essays

GOVT 2305 Fall 2016
Assignment 01
Rena Major

Ever since I was a young child, I have always had a fascination with learning. I soaked up every outlet of information I could possibly find, whether that be watching educational television, browsing the internet, or checking out the maximum number of books the public and school libraries would allow each week. Science, history, world culture, literature - I absorbed it all. I love finding the facts in every nook and cranny of the world. Almost more than learning, I loved sharing the information I’d consumed in vast amounts. When I’d exhausted my mother’s capacity for sitting through a ten-year-old’s lecture about the Revolutionary War, my cat was there to learn about how his tabby stripes were an effective form of camouflage. I would create books - hand-drawn diagrams of how the dinosaurs lived and how gravity worked, with paragraphs in a child’s scrawl - and make my own library for which my parents (and the cat) were the only patrons. I loved learning about the world, and I loved dispersing the knowledge that fascinated me so much. As I grew older, I gained a sister - and a new, non-feline pupil. I imparted on her all that I’d studied, and my adoration of learning became her own. As she entered school herself, I guided her through her studies, tutoring her. It was through this that I discovered a love of teaching. At first, I didn’t think it was truly a career option. For all my love of learning, I didn’t even like

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