Personal background and contributions to college community diversity

¶ … academic interests, personal perspectives, and life experiences adds much to the educational mix. Given your personal background, describe an experience that illustrates what you would bring to the diversity in a college community.

College communities are generally formed of people with diverse backgrounds, who are brought together by common interests and goals for their future. Being in college means that you have already shaped a great part of your personality throughout your school years, but it also means that you still have to be open to new concepts. Considering that I have always had the urge to learn and to help others learn as well, I believe that my experience in break dancing and science projects will definitely provide my future college community with solid information in relation to how sports and intellectual capacities are interdependent.

Mens sana in corpora sano is a Latin quote meaning a healthy mind in a healthy body. This would be one of the best quotations to describe my state of spirit and my present way of life. My personal opinion is that throughout high school my character has been formed by the various experiences I have come across. Once in college I believe that my knowledge would certainly fit well into a community that requires an enormous amount of diversity to coexist and thrive. In exchange for my experience in sports and particularly in dancing and my background in science that I am willing to share with my college community, I am looking forward to benefit from the important information the others have to offer.

I believe that my adaptability would be constructive during college years, since the power to adapt to newer environments has served me well all across my life. In order to succeed in life, one has to know how to deal with people regardless of their backgrounds and of their social level. Moreover, I consider that those that can fit well in every environment are more competent and fortunate in comparison to others that are obsessed with maintaining a certain social statute by only frequenting only privileged or carefully selected communities.

I am amused when I remember my first dance lesson, and the pressure I felt until then because I was practically afraid of interacting with people I did not know. Gradually I learnt that my fear had not been justified and I even became a very sociable person thanks to the fact that I entered the world of break dancing. Not only did I learn how to dance consequent to having become accustomed with this new style of living, but I have also learnt how motivation can be a great helper in any situation. In addition to constantly improving my dance techniques, I also began to get better grades and to become more interested in accumulating information.

It is very probable that break dancing has also gotten me to apply and to be accepted at the University of California San Diego's California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science (COSMOS). The fact that I had already become a popular person had been a huge help in making me form strong bonds with my team mates in spite of the divergences which emerged in the beginning of the project. My fluency in English, Chinese, and Spanish has also proved to be valuable when concerning my ability to integrate in an environment filled with ethnical and cultural diversity.