Submission Number: 342
Submission ID: 1166
Submission UUID: bd54ed51-9a48-41f0-a759-a2e9298c9b4c

Created: Fri, 03/31/2023 - 21:58
Completed: Fri, 03/31/2023 - 21:58
Changed: Thu, 05/08/2025 - 03:47

Remote IP address: 2605:6440:4011:9001::2509
Submitted by:Anonymous
Language: English

Is draft: No

Flagged: Yes
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Lucas
Hardy
He/Him
Washington
District of Columbia
United States
20001
Chemical Engineering
English (5)
I have never had a study abroad experience but have traveled in the country to Browning Montana with the VISIONS service adventures group. There, for three weeks, I lived on an Indian reservation with 30 other high school students supporting an economically exiled and culturally suppressed community. Our support was in the form of constructing and repairing houses around the community, cleaning and restoring a local park, and various other tasks. One of the most critical tasks we were assigned was helping prepare for their sun dance celebration. We constructed the lodge for the event and chopped firewood for their 4-day fire in addition to supporting the tribe with other tasks. I felt honored to get a glimpse into this culture because this event is closed to outsiders due to its extremely cultural nature. This experience has prepared me for the Global Engineering RAP because now I have this ambition to not just sit in a classroom but apply the skills and relationships I get while at the RAP program to make a large difference in these small alienated communities.
I would like the person living down the hall from me to be open, curious, and express themselves easily and cooperatively. I would like this person to be adventurous and open to trying new things and share common academic and nonacademic interests because this inspires me to achieve my own goals. I would want an academic environment where we can help each other academically by supporting each other and sharing our expertise. I feel the relationship on the hall would also include caring about each others’ well-being and celebrating achievements. I would want the person down the hall to be different from me and produce new ideas and share opinions that are different from my own. If I am struggling through something, I would want this person to take notice and help if they can. Lastly, this person would be someone who takes the time out of their day to surprise you with small gestures of kindness and compassion
I believe that this community is perfect for making me the best engineer and person I could possibly be. One of these reasons is all of the opportunities and courses that I would be able to secure such as specially tailored and small first-year classes and personal relationships with professors and teachers. I come from a high school of 600 students with an average class size of less than 20 students and I work best and learn best when I have personal relationships with students and faculty. Lastly, I am keen on the offered extracurricular activities as I have a wide variety of sports and arts that I enjoy especially with friends.
Your slogan Making friends - Having fun - Enriching my life - and Becoming a Global Buff, speaks to my personality and experience. I am a generous, adventurous, and positive person who makes friends and colleagues easily enjoying both similarities and differences we may have. I believe that diversity creates a more successful learning and social environment. I am very accustomed to a diverse student and faculty, in fact, I will graduate from Duke Ellington in May 2023 and will have never taken a class with a white male instructor. This has led me to become a more well-rounded person and participate more in critical social and economic issues that I would not be exposed to in a less diverse environment. I will bring my learning and experience with this value with me and keep it central to my life in the RAPs campus community and would expect that you would have a similar multicultural and enlightened environment so that I can continue to thrive.
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