Diversity Essay
As I set out to write this essay, I did what I usually do when I write. I made an outline and a few lists to help facilitate my writing. I began to draft a list of words to describe myself. The more I looked at these words the more I felt that they were just labels, like I should fit in a neat little box. A word doesn't describe me or my experiences. Those words don’t fully grasp depth of who I am as a person and what my experiences could bring to a campus like Rosalind Franklin University. I don't even think I could fully convey it an essay. Words are very two dimensional and I am most certainly not. On paper I don't think I would ever really come off as diverse in a traditional sense. People probably look at me and would see a small town girl from the Midwest. My life would have seem pretty easy to be me. But like I mentioned before there is more to these “labels.” I grew up in a safe community where I never knew what it was like to live in fear. My parents worked hard to provide …show more content…
In college I had landed a job at a mental hospital for the criminally insane. Part of the job was reading clients charts so I had an idea what would set them off and how to handle certain situations with them. The horror in those charts will never leave me. My view of the world from my safe little town was shattered there in those charts and in those clients faces. I could never blame them for the way they were because of the horrors they endured. These girls had faced rape, incest, assault, murder, loss of children and the list goes on. It made me thankful for the loving family and community I had the privilege to grow up in but it also made realize that there is always more to people then we realize and to not be so quick to judge. Everyone deserves a chance and sometimes a few to get it right. Those girls deserved as many chances as it took for
As I set out to write this essay, I did what I usually do when I write. I made an outline and a few lists to help facilitate my writing. I began to draft a list of words to describe myself. The more I looked at these words the more I felt that they were just labels, like I should fit in a neat little box. A word doesn't describe me or my experiences. Those words don’t fully grasp depth of who I am as a person and what my experiences could bring to a campus like Rosalind Franklin University. I don't even think I could fully convey it an essay. Words are very two dimensional and I am most certainly not. On paper I don't think I would ever really come off as diverse in a traditional sense. People probably look at me and would see a small town girl from the Midwest. My life would have seem pretty easy to be me. But like I mentioned before there is more to these “labels.” I grew up in a safe community where I never knew what it was like to live in fear. My parents worked hard to provide …show more content…
In college I had landed a job at a mental hospital for the criminally insane. Part of the job was reading clients charts so I had an idea what would set them off and how to handle certain situations with them. The horror in those charts will never leave me. My view of the world from my safe little town was shattered there in those charts and in those clients faces. I could never blame them for the way they were because of the horrors they endured. These girls had faced rape, incest, assault, murder, loss of children and the list goes on. It made me thankful for the loving family and community I had the privilege to grow up in but it also made realize that there is always more to people then we realize and to not be so quick to judge. Everyone deserves a chance and sometimes a few to get it right. Those girls deserved as many chances as it took for