| Gino Stolfa Andrew Carnegie’s Carnegie Steel provided funds for underprivileged but prodigious youths to pay for their education, and now many fine institutions follow suit, rewarding hard working and intelligent students. I would allocate such funds toward the compensation for an education provided by the highly acclaimed Clarkson University. In this prestigious school I will pursue a most honorable degree in the science of life, biology. After this I plan to attend graduate school, but for which branch of study I cannot say as of yet. Afterward, I plan to find a vocation based upon my uncertain graduate school choice. It is, of course, all speculation thus far since special circumstances may arise and other “things” may happen, though I do not know what they might be. This seems to be it for the required part of the essay (or “letter”, as you seem to call it). Now, since the aforementioned required “stuff” is out of the way, I will proceed in speaking of myself and my, and in Italian to boot (perche mia profesoressa dice che sembra meglio se ti faccio vedere come scrivo bene l’italiano). Prima comincio con la mia nascita perche cosi comincia la vita. Sono nato negli Stati Uniti, qui a Rochester, il dieci marzo 1984. Penso che sia stato un giorno di molto gioia per la mia famiglia e anche tutto il mondo. Ho un fratello, nato nel ’87, che frequenta lo stesso Inferno che frequento io, ma quello lo lascio per discutere piu` tardi. Anche, ho due sorelle; una nata nell ’88 e l’altra nata nell ’95. Tutti I miei fratelli sono nati negli Stati Uniti. Al contrario, I miei genitori sono nati in Italia. Ed anche I miei nonni ed altri parenti sono nati li. Ci sono ancora molti parenti miei vivendo a Bisceglie in Puglia. Una bella cosa se voglio stare con famiglia quando vado in italia (sono andato l’anno scorso), ma non e’ una bella cosa se voglio passare una festa con famiglia, pero non posso cambiare la situazione. Okay, after demonstrating my Italian writing abilities I suppose I should expand upon my academic interests and abilities since I am, in fact, competing for a prize. It seems worthy to note that my interests do not solely lie in science. They do, in fact, lie within the bounds of literature and politics, particularly in social commentary or societal analysis. I have actually read the first three chapters of The Prince and plan to read quite a bit more since I found my second favorite (only to one of Einstein’s) quote, “the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.” Is it not beautiful? Anyway, I have also read parts of Hobbe’s Leviathan and More’s Utopia, which, of course, I read of my own yearning. Also, I have read almost half of Darwin’s Origin of the Species because I am much a fan of evolutionary theory, which has partly inspired me to write an article for the school rag that was iniquitously rejected, but I will insert it here for your reading pleasure: An Ideal Society Whew, that was quite a bit, but I sense that you picked up on my various preoccupations. Additional to my interests, I have great ability, for what is desire without ability? That I am so gifted as to be able to participate in various AP courses such as physics, although not calculus based because my ignoramus of a guidance counselor did not think me worthy enough to be in accelerated science though I was accelerated in math, and I take BC calculus, the so-called hardest class in the school (which wasn’t really that hard). That would seem to fulfill the non-requirement of my scholastic abilities and interests. Though none of the preceding was necessary, I figured I should add something to segue into this piece. You see, there are three basic steps for a lineage to become one with the society it has migrated to, which spans three generations. The first would be the immigrant, himself, accommodating to his new nation. Second, me, would be adaptation to the society. Finally, comes assimilation. And although I am the second generation and should undoubtedly be at the second step, I am beyond all of them into one I call “societal indifference”, which is when one does not care to conform to the populace or “fit in”, as it is also known. Now, the aforementioned statements may seemingly over exemplify my intellectual prowess, but is that type of thought not characteristic of a true leader? I thought so. |