Personal Statement

            When I look into the window and see the new day, I realize that my destiny is in my hands, and that I fully responsible for promoting my personal betterment and the betterment of my relatives. Three months of the year 2006 have forever separated me from my previous happy life with my closest family members. Three months in 2006 have forever divided my worldview into the two different elements, with one belonging to the happy past, and with another showing the way to a better future, and while I was trying to restore my moral stability and to return to my normal pace of life, I have come to realization of my future needs. Adversity, honesty, loyalty and devotion to studies, motivation and commitment are going to become the essential elements of my close knowledge relationships with the University. I have never been afraid of challenges; and I have been able to combine my straightforwardness and honesty with my personal determination to win. I know that I might have not received the best grades at school, lacking an opportunity to apply myself to the fullest, but I also know that the life offers me another chance to focus on my future and to prove to myself and others that I am eager of accomplishing great things.

Learning is a difficult task. It requires time and effort, but greatness is impossible without self-sacrifice. Learning is a brilliant example of the situation when self-sacrifice turns into a long-term deposit into my future profession, and I look forward to attending your school as the new successful stage of my professional and personal life. Leadership, organization, performance and working experiences are going to form my new outlook, with the University serving the source of these elements, and the prism through which these elements can further be re-evaluated. My life has pushed me to the need for re-evaluating my needs and my prospects. Now, at the edge of entering your university, I am thinking in a radically new way, where the University is the instrument of avoiding moral, spiritual, and professional stagnation in my life.

Ever since my first lesson at school, I have been looking for the means to cross the traditional boundaries of knowledge. Knowledge and learning were always the sources of everyday excitement, providing me with the means to apply my leadership skills to improve my daily interactions with teachers and classmates. Now, I am prepared for a daily fight to my future success. The time has come when I must be nobody but myself, with my small sorrows and my greatest achievements. My new world will comprise everything I have to give to others – to my family, to my university, and to my future career. I will not compromise my dreams, but I will gradually move to what people usually call “success”. In my new world, the striving to become a professional will be constantly combined with compassion and inherent desire to help others; and as I am the first of my family to go to college, I expect that this valuable experience will completely change my vision of the world, of others, and of what I have to become in the next several years. As my family has re-shaped my attitudes to the world, I expect that the University will re-shape me to become the person of the future, with the ability to apply my talents in practice, and to support my professional decisions with skills and knowledge acquired during the University years.

The university will provide me with new educational opportunities; I will be able to face the challenges which contemporary professional environment creates in response to the growing complexity of job markets. While the university is striving to respond to the diversity challenges and is striving to diversify and apply the new knowledge, this university will also lead me to my ultimate goals in professional and personal life. I know who I am; and I also know what I am able to do to achieve the goals of my life. My mission as an undergraduate is to link my abilities to the learning opportunities which the University offers. I look forward to attending the classes, and creating a comfortable niche of useful knowledge in a complex University’s structure. I need an academic foundation for my future professional accomplishments, and by becoming a part of this University, the majority of my professional issues will finally be resolved.