Essay - Personal Statement Evaluate One Important Aspect of Your Educational Experience...

Personal Statement

Evaluate one important aspect of your educational experience to date. Among your options is a book, a course, an individual, or a significant experience that influenced you in a meaningful way. Then, in light of your discussion, briefly indicate how the university might shape ***** future education.

The University of Washington's stress upon interdisciplinary education seems to offer me the ideal environment to shape my character, as well as my professional aspirations. The university *****es student-directed learning, and encourages boundless curiosity. Of all of ***** classes I have taken over course of ***** high school career, the most foundational ***** stretched the boundaries ***** all of ***** disciplines. For example, when I was learning about "Hamlet" in English class, my teacher did not simply approach the play as a difficult vocabulary exercise. *****nstead, before even opening up the c***** ***** the book, the class learned about daily life in Shakespeare's England, and ***** plays would have been performed historically. Students were prepared for the unfamiliar language, ***** storyline. But the class was also allowed to discuss, personal feelings about the play, and how we identified with ***** as ordinary adolescents who were facing philosophical conflicts with our friends, parents, and society.

***** ***** point Hamlet says: "I do not know/Why yet I live to say 'This thing's ***** *****;'/ Sith I ***** cause and will and strength ***** means/To do't." (4.4). Hamlet believes that knowing what to do in ***** will provide him with some relief from the unhappiness he feels after his father's death. When he believes he is duty-bound to revenge his father, he feels energized for a moment, but ***** always doubts if this is the moral course of action. He creates tests ***** see ***** what h***** ***** ghost ***** is true, and still hesitates to kill Claudius until the very end ***** the play. "Hamlet" showed how we all seek a cle*****r purpose in life, and sometimes it is tempting to find an easy solution ***** a lack of direction. I admit ***** like *****, ***** have m*****y doubts about what ***** the right way to live. I know that I must gain a full *****ledge of science, philosophy, and every possible academic area to come to grips ***** the great changes taking place in the world *****day. I look to college to ***** me with the ability to find, if not answers, than the ability to ask ***** right questions that will enable me to lead a more ethical and fulfilling