To the Geneseo Admission Faculty, For a prolonged time I was not sure of what I wished to accomplish with my life. At one point, I felt lost. That was last fall when I needed to take a gap semester for a variety of reasons. That summer melded into fall as fall melded into winter. Not once during this time, did I accomplish anything of importance, nothing, for nearly three-fourths of a year. The only activity I did that actually mattered at the time was reading. That Christmas, I asked my parents for a variety of philosophical texts. They gifted me a complete collection of Plato’s dialogues, The Stranger by Camus, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche. Camus and Nietzsche are commonly known as existentialists, but remarkably, what I gained from studying them was not despair, but motivation. Both authors helped me realize that even though humans have no inherent purpose, we carve our own purpose through struggle and achievement. From them, I found a reason to strive to achieve, but I …show more content…
I believe it to be imperative to success that students strive to uphold these values, and since it is my duty to help myself and others thrive and succeed, I must uphold these values and promote them in my fellow students. To uphold these values to the best of my ability, I must develop more as a student. Through the philosophy program, I know that Geneseo will facilitate my development as a student, and prepare me well for the kind of professions and moral choices that I want to make. Geneseo can be the first step to allowing myself to better the world. After I graduate, my hope is to continue my education at law school and afterwards employ the skills I acquire there to enact justice to the best of my ability. To accomplish my goals, I need the best education possible, which is exactly what I know I can receive from