<p>Greetings everyone,</p>
<p>My name is Peter Smoke, I am applying to Rutgers University for the Fall 2009 semester as a undergraduate student. I have attended Ocean County College in NJ for the past 2 years and am ready to move on. I will admit I am not good at writing essays, especially ones that are personal and have so much hinging on them.</p>
<p>A little bit about myself, I am 20 years old and have my own business that I run with a business partner while attending school full time. My company deals with green technology, specifically solar photovoltaic panels. We provide consultation, 3d design, and installation of solar systems. It is a huge aspect of my life and I love doing it despite how challenging it is. For the past year I have had a tough time trying to pin down exactly what my area of expertize would be as I do so much from marketing, design of the solar systems, customer relations, and general logistical support for our installers. Either I will walk away with a degree in Marketing or one in Environmental Engineering.</p>
<p>The problem I am having is integrating my business experience with my essay.</p>
<p>Here is the Rutgers Question:</p>
<p>Rutgers University is a vibrant community of people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences. How would you benefit from and contribute to such an environment? Consider variables such as your talents, travels, leadership activities, volunteer services, and cultural experiences. Only personal essays submitted via our website will be considered. You may enter a maximum of 4000 characters including spaces.</p>
<p>And here is an outline i started, attempting to answer the first question:</p>
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<li>Participating in programs that pertain to my interests and aspirations in life</li>
<li>With the help of the excellent professors at Rutgers University I hope to expand my knowledge base and with this plethora of information and understanding become not only more valuable to the work force of the United States but apply it to new and unforeseen ways every day of my life.</li>
<li>The community at Rutgers is vibrant and vivacious. I have witnessed this first hand and the cultural ambiguity of the people in New Brunswick is a sight that one must immerse his or her self in fully understanding. That is why I have always wanted to go to Rutgers, it is in being an actual student that the next step in my life can be taken.</li>
<li>Rutgers is very well known for its special interest in the environment. It is my own passion for the environment that I primarily wish to be a part of this University.</li>
<li>Special programs pertaining to Solar? Clubs, committees etc</li>
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<p>Thanks in advance everyone for taking a look!</p>
<p>Peter</p>