Rutgers University Personal Statement

I have the utmost confidence that Rutgers University can both aid me and provide the opportunity to significantly contribute to my primary educational, desired career, and overall life goals. With your exceptionally well regarded campus, student diversity, educational atmosphere, brilliant programs, and the mere fact that you have recently provided the student body with the choice of this great states only NROTC program, how could it not? Rutgers offers near anything a student could desire to study and pursue, and with Rutgers beside you, I certainly believe that ones possibilities are infinite. The honor of being able to attend Rutgers is something I've always desired, but have yet to achieve. Perhaps now will be my time.

From a very young age, being largely raised by my depression era paternal grandparents, I was exposed to the concepts of community, volunteer work, charity, and an attractive view of a future in public service and a life in the military. My grandfather, a World War II sailor of the Pacific theater, would often tell me of his glory days during the war. My good fortune provided me with his sharing a lifetime of wisdom. Wisdom such as what beauty the world has to offer, the curious and wonderful cultures of the earth, the horrors of war, the good and evil within man, the happiness and sadness from friends made and lost. Most importantly though, he told me of the sickness of ignorance, and that the cure was something only a good education, hard work, and an open heart could
I wish to attend Rutgers and attain degrees in psychology so as to understand, prevent, and heal despair. I wish to live a life in the military, leading and helping the men and women in service of our great nation. And one day, a life in politics perhaps, to help the people overall, and make these United State better than they already