The main reason I want to attend Catholic University is because of the Catholic identity. I was born into Catholicism and a very conservative lifestyle. My whole life I have gone to mass every Sunday, pray the rosary every night, prayed before meals and attending catechism practically my whole life. For as long as I can remember I have always been told if I ever need help or want good outcomes to always pray, whether it’s for myself or others. Basically, my whole childhood and most of my adolescence I have had the same values as most of my peers since I grew up in south Florida. But once I moved to Maryland all that changed. It was very rare meeting people who share the same values. Living in an area where being a conservative catholic was basically being the minority. It is horrible, I feel as if I cannot say I am catholic or conservative because I would be judged for what I believe in. Catholic will give me that opportunity to meet people with the same beliefs as myself, but also it can also help me meet who have …show more content…
My dad is politics twenty-four/ seven. Growing up in Florida my dad had always been very involved with the candidates running. Ever since I was little my dad always said he wanted to move back to Washington D.C. He always said everything was better there, jobs, schools and people. As mentioned earlier, we moved and I realized the education and the amount of opportunities there are, are incredible. My freshman year was the year I began looking at several schools in Florida, but my dad never approved of me going to any of those schools because what was best for me is studying in the nation’s capital with the best schools in the country for what I want to study. There are also several options of studying abroad. Being in the nation’s capital gives me opportunities of interning at congress and other important places nearby which other schools around the country do not have the luxury of