The intense glow of the dingy chandelier warms our sparsely-heated kitchen. The lights illuminate my despondent parents huddled around the dinner table. Dinner serves bitter courses: “slow business, expensive college tuitions, shrinking jobs.” Dinner is served. Dessert is my future. I await the pleasure with anticipation. The sweet smell of success, however, seductively swirls in hazy shapes. Success is uncertain. Financial difficulty is definite. Dessert is an unfamiliar dish with a radical name…Occupy Wall Street. Occupy Wall Street is...

transfer essay

From an early age, middle-to-lower income students, in particular first generation minorities, are taught to see education as the golden ticket to financial stability and social mobility. And from an early age, education has unconsciously conditioned me for certain positions in life: to take orders without questions and dutifully complete rote tasks. And yet, I see my intellectual development as both shortsighted and in need of transformation. Why? Education, for me, is curiosity--an intellectual awakening. I now see emphasis was...

when you are considering the purpose of an undergraduate business education, (or frankly any education for that matter), you should think about what you want from your education and what you hope to accomplish in these 4 years if you want to develop high-level critical thinking...

To be honest, I really recommend making sure the fit is right for you. what i think is the most important lesson i learned from college, and probably one of the best advice i heard and want to tell you, is to really assess the fit of the school...

wherever you go, i highly recommend finding someone...

I think more emphasis on what new quality you can bring to the table would be great. I remember one of the best advice on colleges I got was to not emphasize the school's qualities because the school already knows its value...

i think if you emphasize that you have the qualities that define stern.. basically what the school's culture ( in a positive aspect) is.. passionate, driven, assertive ( and aggressive lol), go-getter, hungry-minded people who do not take no...