After immigrating from Egypt to America at a young age, I was overwhelmed with the opportunities the country had to offer. Take public education for example, no such thing existed when I was living in Egypt. My parents had to work hard to put my brothers and I in school until we had arrived here. The transition from living on a couple of dollars a day to being able to work for myself and going out often has changed my methods of thinking. The conventional way of living a stable life in America is to go through college and find a job that you majored in, the conventional way of living in Egypt is to find a job as a teenager because even after going through college, the chances of entering the line of work that you had studied is very slim. The
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Although I want to enter the pharmaceutical field I am open to growth and like to see every path possible. If the pharmaceutical field is not for me, I am unsure what I want to become. The roles and structures of society force us to become who we are and choose what we do. After reading the book The Cultural Nature of Human Development by Barbara Rogoff, I learned that as a child, society is what molded me to become who and what I am. I live in a perilous city in which who you are and where you come from meant a lot. In Rogoff’s book she speaks of the concept of socialization. When we are born we are taught the roles we play and the norms and rules of society by our parents, relatives and those who we feel are trustworthy. This is the first step to our growth. After finishing her book I saw that we must stop the cycle of socialization from controlling our own lives. We are being oppressed by materialistic things such as shoes and technology when we do not need it. At NJCU I hope to find who I am as a person and what duty I must fulfill. Aristotle once said that we must find our “telos” or goal in life and that every person has a purpose. I see NJCU as a school with many classes to offer. I believe that I can truly find who I am as a person because of all the classes you have to offer. Author Kellie Elmore once said “Sometimes the only way to ever find yourself is to get completely lost.” At NJCU I hope to find myself
Although I want to enter the pharmaceutical field I am open to growth and like to see every path possible. If the pharmaceutical field is not for me, I am unsure what I want to become. The roles and structures of society force us to become who we are and choose what we do. After reading the book The Cultural Nature of Human Development by Barbara Rogoff, I learned that as a child, society is what molded me to become who and what I am. I live in a perilous city in which who you are and where you come from meant a lot. In Rogoff’s book she speaks of the concept of socialization. When we are born we are taught the roles we play and the norms and rules of society by our parents, relatives and those who we feel are trustworthy. This is the first step to our growth. After finishing her book I saw that we must stop the cycle of socialization from controlling our own lives. We are being oppressed by materialistic things such as shoes and technology when we do not need it. At NJCU I hope to find who I am as a person and what duty I must fulfill. Aristotle once said that we must find our “telos” or goal in life and that every person has a purpose. I see NJCU as a school with many classes to offer. I believe that I can truly find who I am as a person because of all the classes you have to offer. Author Kellie Elmore once said “Sometimes the only way to ever find yourself is to get completely lost.” At NJCU I hope to find myself