travel on an app

NeoEpisteme
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:40:57 +0000

^ I think that is absolutely not true. My experiences traveling abroad, especially in the third world have completely changed my life. Colleges are looking for people who will have an impact on their campuses. If you have traveled abroad and experienced other cultures, then I am sure you can impress in your applications how much open-mindedness you could bring to a college campus. Seeing another culture first hand and being immersed in it causes you, I think, to be more open minded about differences in other people; a practice you might see abroad might be something that would be considered repulsive in America. Seeing such a practice accepted in daily life in another culture causes you to see past differences and really appreciate them.

I am by no means wealthy, and most of my traveling has been through volunteering, on mission trips, or been for religious reasons. I don’t really have plans to write about my experiences in my essays, but I know that they have the potential to make very compelling essays.