English Assignment

Question you will answer

Your answer, in bullet point style and not in paragraph form

Who

are you as a student?

· I am a student who is uncomfortable about the way we conduct our education.

· I think the way we teach and are taught are deeply flawed and in dire need of change.

· But paradoxically I am fond of learning and it gives me immense pleasure to be able to learn something new .

are you as a family member?

· I am not a very active member of the family and usually am indifferent about most of the things going on in the family.

· They differ with me in the very basis of what life must constitute that I can never have proper communication with them.

· But I really respect them as everyone in my family are really hardworking people with sincere love and dedication towards their family.

are you as a neighborhood or community member?

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I am usually secluded from the neighborhood or communal activities except for the occasions I feel I cannot avoid.

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Although I love talking to people of the community and working together with them. It is one of the few joys of human life that come almost free of cost and provides so much more in return.

inspired you to do something you never thought you could do?

· It was the winter of my junior year in high school, I was walking home from a long day at school by the side of Bagmati (it is a river in Pakistan , and also kind of important for this story ).

· At that time, I was really sad about the state I found my country and the river beside me symbolized the true state of my country.

· A river that was supposed to pristine and blooming with life was now a glorified sewer with a beautiful name.

· It came to me as a slow realization that it wasn’t that people didn’t care, it was just that they didn’t think there was much they could do.

· On that day I decided, I am going to become someone who

can do something about the things that they care about.

What

have you accomplished so far in your high school and college career that you are proud of?

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So far, I don’t think I have done anything that I can especially be proud of.

Although my parents may differ, they are quite fond of talking about me with their peers.

do you want to learn about in college?

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I want to do two things in my time in college.

First is the technical knowledge of the field I will be studying in (Knowledge of Civil Engineering as far as my major goes).

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The second is to be able to convey the things I want to say in precise and clear manner.

are you most passionate about (what do you spend most of your time and energy doing?)

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I am and have always been passionate about learning. The human capacity to observe objects in nature and derive knowledge from them is one of the most fascinating things about us.

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Most of my day is spent in reading something or the other that I’ve found that day.

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I wish I could enroll in a college where they let me sleep in the library and don’t require me to take any classes.

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I would be really happy man if that were a reality.

do you want to do after you earn your degree or certificate?

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I want to go to university and finish my bachelors and then go off to study for my master’s degree.

And as soon as my master’s is completed, I want to go back home and start cleaning the river , I so adore.

Where

are you from?

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I am from Mubarak , Pakistan .

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Which is a small town in an already small country.

do you see yourself after college?

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Back home working on a project hopefully.

Why

did you decide to enroll as a college student?

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Because I love the idea of going to a place where you can learn skills that you can then use to enrich your life and the lives of others around you.

How

will you keep pursuing what you love even after college?

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I plan to join a government agency or maybe even start a project so that I can work on building efficient water treatments plants in my country.

will you make yourself and your family and community members proud?

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I think if I live responsibly and take care of people around me and actually dedicate myself to this cause.

It will be more than enough for anyone to be proud of me.