UVA addendum
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 3:52 pm
I've always wanted to go to UVA. Tell me if this sounds ok, if its over the top, poorly written, whatever.
I lived in Richmond from nine until twelve. In retrospect, that is not a very long time at all. Yet, during those three years I developed a real appreciation and profound interest in Mr. Thomas Jefferson, his state, and his school. I remember when my father told me we were moving after the sixth grade and between heavy tears and heavier sobs and one of the clear memories I have was thinking how this was going to hurt my chances of going to UVA. Maybe it makes sense that a future history major who moved into a home on Thomas Jefferson's boyhood property, Tuckahoe Plantation, would learn to appreciate and love the university and state he represented, but I believe it was the the setting, man, and state that inspired me to love and study history.
From the moment I left Virginia, I felt the state beckoning me back. I stayed close with friends, went to camp at Woodberry Forest, and visited as often as possible. I refused to allow distance and regular accessibility define my relationship with the place I love. After being denied acceptance to Virginia as an undergraduate, I decided I would work as hard as it took to have the opportunity to gain my law degree there.
As my appreciation for Viriginia and its finest university has matured over the years, I have grown to appreciate UVA's "academical village" and its law school for more than just the things I initially loved about the state. As a top ten law school in the nation, it will offer me every opportunity to succeed as a lawyer I could ever have. The list of successful graduates is too long to get into, and its numerous accolades speak for themselves. Important to note is that my dream does not stop at being accepted and choosing to attend Virginia Law. I would work as hard as I possibly can, take advantage of Virginia's limitless resources, and become active in numerous campus societies and activities to ensure that I get everything out of my experience and am simultaneously giving back to the state and university that will give me so many opportunities. All in all, I can not imagine a more enjoyable, gratifying, and career preparing three years than the ones I would be spending in Charlottesville, Virginia.
I lived in Richmond from nine until twelve. In retrospect, that is not a very long time at all. Yet, during those three years I developed a real appreciation and profound interest in Mr. Thomas Jefferson, his state, and his school. I remember when my father told me we were moving after the sixth grade and between heavy tears and heavier sobs and one of the clear memories I have was thinking how this was going to hurt my chances of going to UVA. Maybe it makes sense that a future history major who moved into a home on Thomas Jefferson's boyhood property, Tuckahoe Plantation, would learn to appreciate and love the university and state he represented, but I believe it was the the setting, man, and state that inspired me to love and study history.
From the moment I left Virginia, I felt the state beckoning me back. I stayed close with friends, went to camp at Woodberry Forest, and visited as often as possible. I refused to allow distance and regular accessibility define my relationship with the place I love. After being denied acceptance to Virginia as an undergraduate, I decided I would work as hard as it took to have the opportunity to gain my law degree there.
As my appreciation for Viriginia and its finest university has matured over the years, I have grown to appreciate UVA's "academical village" and its law school for more than just the things I initially loved about the state. As a top ten law school in the nation, it will offer me every opportunity to succeed as a lawyer I could ever have. The list of successful graduates is too long to get into, and its numerous accolades speak for themselves. Important to note is that my dream does not stop at being accepted and choosing to attend Virginia Law. I would work as hard as I possibly can, take advantage of Virginia's limitless resources, and become active in numerous campus societies and activities to ensure that I get everything out of my experience and am simultaneously giving back to the state and university that will give me so many opportunities. All in all, I can not imagine a more enjoyable, gratifying, and career preparing three years than the ones I would be spending in Charlottesville, Virginia.