College Admissions Essay: My Passion To Gain An Education

In life, there are many experiences that one can take part in that will influence them for the rest of their life. Though, in the end none of them are as immensely influential as getting an education. Attending school and being educated are immensely dissimilar. Attending school gives you the opportunity to get an education. However, one can be quite educated and never have attended college and vice versa. To understand this further, we must first define what an education truly means today in our society. It doesn’t always mean that you have a degree to show to an employer, nor does it mean that you have job security. Those are just possible consequences of a getting an education. A person who is educated is a person who looks at the world

in a logical, thought out fashion. That person would have the ability to see the world with a broader perspective, and be able to give consideration to any perspective. To be educated is to be a lighthouse in a storm of ignorance. The broadest definition of education is the truest, to be educated is to be enlightened.
We humans are merely a culmination of our experiences, and those experiences are dictated by our passions.

Life isn’t about the destination, it’s about the journey. Mine has led me across the globe. I experienced the beauty and culture of the different places I visited. Experiencing a holistic and interconnected world that built the foundation on which my passion to witness, as well as understand the elegance of Earth and mankind exists. My passion to unveil the secrets of this World and all its beauty has led me to the sciences, which managed to satiate my thirst for knowledge, momentarily. Instead of feeling confused by the Universe, I felt an overwhelming awe. I had the tools with which I not only can understand the World, but the entirety of the universe, from its colossal galactic clusters down to its complex subatomic particles. This sense of awe further fueled my passion to understand the complexity of the Universe. And thus I went to a university to understand the world better. To get an education, to be enlightened. My time there wasn’t as fulfilling as I hoped; however in an odd twist of fate, I learned the true meaning of what getting an education

means.

Your background greatly impacts your education.

But what most people don’t realize is that one day you will question your strongest beliefs, and that isn’t a bad thing to do. To be educated means that you are willing and comfortable for your beliefs to be tested, and reformed into something that is more in consonance with your soul. Initially I used to believe going to a college will grant you an education. That professors will be able to generate an empathy and respect inside you for the world. Unfortunately that wasn’t the case for many of the students. I saw indifference to the world. Young students aren’t taught what being educated means, and that has led to its degradation. Students mainly attend universities so that they have better job opportunities, not to obtain a rational and informed outlook on the world. What I learned was that universities merely just create the environment in which it’s the most convenient for one to be educated. It is up to the individual to look for knowledge, to rationally question ones beliefs, be willing to listen to differing perspectives, and seek

enlightenment.

Alas, the pursuit of knowledge, how through a dramatic irony you have made me more educated. How you had made me question education itself. Thus making me more educated. That experience is the entire purpose of what education is to be able to question something, and gaining something useful out of it. My experience at college wasn’t what I hoped for, but I still got an enormous lesson that I will carry with me for the rest of my life. The path to being educated is a lifelong pursuit. And while I am merely a beginner, I know the end result is worth it. As the journey would have created an improved me. I believe, I have the willpower to see this journey through to its completion. In life and your passions, experience teaches. As Don Quixote’s author; Cervantes once said “Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.”