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Gonzaga Personal Statement

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In only a few short months I will be graduating alongside more than a thousand of my peers, leaving Gonzaga’s Catholic, Jesuit and humanistic educational system. My time at Gonzaga University has been short, as a transfer student coming into a Jesuit institution for the first time, the transition was quite surprising. I was unaware of Gonzaga’s unique approach of teaching students beyond an academic level. I quickly learned the vast differences between being lectured to, and being fully educated. Every class has a focus on developing students in a humanistic manner with specific values reflected in Jesuit and Catholic teaching. As I began to learn the Gonzaga-way, I grew as an individual, embracing the foreign culture I had delved in to. This university has given me copious opportunities to take …show more content…

Being immersed in the Gonzaga culture has drastically shaped the way I think about my future, and my plans for life after graduation. The business world is notoriously believed to be unethical, a cut-throat industry with players aimed only at monetary success; the exact impression I had myself before my time at Gonzaga. But the classes I have taken in my tenure have opened my eyes, highlighting the responsibility oneself holds to themselves and to the community around them. I have learned that I am obligated to be an ethical person, putting the likes of people and moralities before my desires. I am responsible for holding myself up to the standards that Gonzaga has instituted within me, to be respectful to all I come across, while always striving to be the best person I can be. I plan to bring this change of ethical behavior to the business world. Gonzaga has not made me reconsider my choice of career path, but rather motivated me to pursue it more extensively. I want to go into a business career being unique amongst the rest of the field. Not specifically sighted on wealth, but with a passion for ethics, bettering off those around me, and leaving a

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