JE56 Big Apple

            If I had a chance, I would choose to attend NYU in NYC. Studying and living in New York has always been my dream. Living in a big city reminds me how competitive the world is and how I should always keep up my pace to learn new knowledge. I have always imagined myself to work in a fancy office in a big city like New York, interacting with people from all around the world. The “Big Apple” is an integration of people with different cultures. With such cultural variety, it connects people from all around the world to be at the same place. To me, attending a global network university would definitely benefit me from understanding people with different cultural background and perspectives and knowing what is going on around the world.

             Among the books and movies I’ve read and watched, New York is always portrayed as a place where dreams would be accomplished. To me, I feel like there would be many opportunities for me to experience. Also, a global network allows me to access to more resources. It would definitely help me on my future career when I encounter people from different places. As an Asian who initially had no American background and was gradually assimilated to a more western mind, I feel close to the concept of global network.

JE55 Public Interest

Respond to the quotation below. It is not necessary to research, read, or refer to the texts from which these quotations are taken; we are looking for original, personal responses to these short excerpts. Remember that your essay should be personal in nature and not simply an argumentative essay.

“It seems to me incumbent upon this and other schools’ graduates to recognize their responsibility to the public interest...unless the graduates of this college...are willing to put back into our society those talents, the broad sympathy, the understanding, the compassion...then obviously the presuppositions upon which our democracy are based are bound to be fallible.”

--John F. Kennedy, at the ground breaking for the Amherst College Frost Library, October 26, 1963

             Education, besides absorbing knowledge, is also a process of consuming society’s resources. It is not an easy thing to go to school without any other resources, such as food, transportation, teachers, books, electricity, etc. Because we want to continue our education, we need to consume resources from the society. Therefore, we should definitely pay back by contributing the knowledge we learned into the society. Many people, including parents, work hard for us so that we have the knowledge today. We should return them by making their lives better and easier. Working is not just about money; it’s for our passion. Our passion should include the part of giving something back to the society. It is useless for people to advance their skills just because they can earn money and live good lives. It is also important to pay back to the societies. I think public interest is a duty that everyone has.