Major Application Essay

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I’m currently a sophomore who is majoring in environmental studies and biology. Honestly speaking, choosing majors is not an easy thing to do. Before declaring my majors, I have taken courses of various topics, such as math, psychology and health. I have also sit in on a computer science course and a physics course. In the first three semesters at Brandeis, I’ve tried to offer myself the freedom to figure out my academic and personal interests. This major finding process did take me a while and it did make me felt lost for a long time. Luckily, I found the inspiration to major in biology when I was taking a course about evolution last semester. I’ve found that biology can be interesting when it studies animals, plants, or even insects by taking …show more content…

Hopefully, I would be able to find out my own way to understand, or even has the ability to adjust properly, the relationship among human beings, other living things, and the environment after I have accumulate certain amount of knowledge. This interest will also be my academic and intellectual goal for study abroad. However, the more important reason, or I can say goal, to study abroad is that I find that most of the courses at Brandeis are based on books. Admittedly, the knowledge in books is important. However, after taking a course about environmental policy in the last semester, I realize that people, at least for me, can only encode knowledge in their brain once they have experience it in real life, discuss it in real life, and apply it in real life. When I finish this semester, I will finish one year of general chemistry, one year of organic chemistry, one year of biology based on genetics and cells. I think that I will have the basic and fundamental knowledge for my goal. Therefore, I want to add one more thing into my academic and intellectual goal for study abroad. I want to learn more about biology from the biodiversity, conservation biology and zoology levels and learn more about the different aspects of environmental protection from not only lectures, readings, but also field trips, or hands-on experience. That’s the major reason why I choose DIS/ Sustainability in Europe program. My study abroad liaison in environmental studies apartment and a friend of mine who chose this program to study abroad all recommended this program to me because of its various field trips and experiential learning opportunities. Besides, the courses that I decide to take also satisfy my interest,

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