College Admissions Essay: Why I Want To Study History

To major in history at Georgetown has been a goal of mine for years, since I started thing about college. As soon as I heard of Georgetown and began to research it, I instantly wanted to know more, feeling certain this was the place for me.

I have loved history since I was eight years old and first picked up a biography of Elizabeth I. Hanging on every word, watching the long-lost world of Tudor England play out before me, I was hooked. Ever since then, any and all history classes became my favorite--I barely saw them as school, they were so enjoyable. My love of history has only grown over the years, as my classes have become more interesting and challenging, and I have now seen the subject in many different lights.

Carl Marx said all history is class struggle, but I believe that studying history is really just studying the ways people have interacted with one another throughout time--different viewpoints, wants, needs, situations, and standings in society leading to conflict or resolution or both. History is just people living their lives, just like we do today: they loved some people and hated others, they cried sometimes, were scared sometimes, told jokes sometimes. I love learning historical anecdotes that remind me how relatable people from all time periods are, such as Alexander Hamilton …show more content…
But I do not want to be a historian or work in the history field: after graduating, I want to go to law school and work in a legal practice. My interest in laws came later, as I learned read more independently of school, because laws are completely intertwined with history, in part due to how long humanity has had them, and in part because laws, like history, are observations and results of how people interact with one another. My high school bioethics courses have given me a deep love of philosophy, another closely related subject to legal systems: what makes a good law? What should be