The Ruling Class

idea what I was doing, who I wanted to be, or what the next four years would be like, and a tentatively declared English major. I didn’t know where I was headed, I didn’t really even know what I wanted, but I did know that I liked books and English class in my past years of school. I actually almost went to Western to major in business, but that’s a story for another time. When I’d met with the academic advisors during…

Most children these day will not ask: Why do I have to “report to class on time?” Why do I have to “respect the teacher’s position as leader in the classroom?” Why do I have to “cooperate with the specific rules of the school?” Children these day do not and will not question the reason why they have follow these written…

It was the first day of college and I just finished my first class in Violet Hall. I was feeling pretty confident and excited for the semester. After my computer science class let out, I turned left after exiting the thirteen hundreds quarter of the first floor and took the first exit I saw, thinking about my next class which was in Barnett Hall. The day before I walked to all of my classes, especially to my psychology class in Barnett, to make sure I knew my way so I would not get lost or be…

perfect behavior but I believe I display good behavior almost always. The only category I circled proficient for instead of exemplary is the “Level of Engagement in Class” category and I will get into detail about why I feel that way later in my essay. The first two categories I want to discuss are the “Level of Engagement in Class” and “Listening Skills” categories. I feel that I display exemplary behavior in the listening category because it is a rare event for me to have side conversations…

I withdrew from the University of Connecticut due to medical reasons. When I withdrew, I did not know what was causing my symptoms. The symptoms were, however, severely interfering with my ability to well in classes. I decided to withdraw from UCONN and focus my energies on addressing my health. Though I was extremely disappointed that my declining health forced me to leave UCONN, I knew I would not be able to do as well as I could, academically. Over the course of the following years, my…

It was the first day of 8th grade at Nagel Middle School, I was alone and friendless on team 8-1, most of my friends from last year were on different teams. So during lunch I ended up sitting with Jenna Walsh a girl I knew from book club last year, her twin Alex and another girl I had gym with the previous year, Samantha Beinke. Although it was quite sunny outside, the temperature in the cafeteria felt like it was below freezing point. I turned towards Jenna about to voice my opinion on how the…

Dear Amma, How’s everyone doing? I’m having a lot of fun at school. My hardest class right now is probably my organic chemistry class. You remember the organic chemistry class that I took in high school? It’s a little like that, but definitely harder and more focused on real-world applications. The course actually includes a weekly three-hour lab with its own one-hour lecture. I think it’s a pretty great course because we learn techniques that are used in actual labs. Last week’s experiment…

It has been a little over two months since I began my out of the classroom experience in the Shustova Chemistry lab. With many extractions, separations, Schlenk line setups, and NMR spectroscopies, I am feeling much more confortable preforming higher-level chemistry techniques all while upholding national safety standards. This sense of comfortableness did not come quickly. This is where the most challenging aspect of the Capstone Project comes into play. The challenge that I face when I go into…

Apart from the fact that, Johnson is an excellent, top notch business school with a long history of impact the truth is that there is a silly reason that led me to apply to this school. Let me expand on the silly reason first, why I am applying to Johnson. The Office, one of my all-time favorite TV show and the character Andy Bernard, who went to Cornell. It is hard to explain, but I will give it a try. The character Andy Bernard is portrayed in the show as someone who does not get the social…

were originally a German Jewish family. Much like Hegel before him, Marx saw reality as an ongoing process of history. For Marx that history was a history of class conflict. His conclusion was not only relevant in his time, but it is still relevant today. Marx said there were two classes of people in the world. The first was the ruling class or as he called them the bourgeoisie [bo͝orZHwäˈzē]. The second was the workers of the world which he called the proletariat [prōləˈterēət] (Kishlansky,…