Submission Number: 428
Submission ID: 1523
Submission UUID: 309733fa-de5b-4a21-b7cc-83e240471212

Created: Thu, 02/06/2025 - 12:07
Completed: Thu, 02/06/2025 - 12:09
Changed: Mon, 05/12/2025 - 04:35

Remote IP address: 4.39.220.106
Submitted by:Anonymous
Language: English

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Landon
Kizlyk
He/Him
Colorado Springs
Colorado
U.S.A
80908
Environmental Engineering
English (5), Spanish (1)
One of my first memories of traveling the world with my father and grandfather was a trip to a village in Swaziland (now Eswatini) where I met a school group of 8th grade students who lived within the village. As a white child who grew up in a predominantly Caucasian community, it was quite a shock to be the minority race among all of the kids around me. However, when I was able to interact with each of the kids, it was like there were no differences at all - just the purity of child innocence and wonder. Similarly, many of the kids were very enthusiastic to talk with my grandfather as they had never met a man in his mid 60’s before! I was curious how that could be so I researched and learned soon after, the average life expectancy in Swaziland was only 46 years old back in 2014 and it truly broke my heart. However, I learned that despite all of the daily hardships that these families were facing, their love for each other was just as evident no matter where they were living. I love to travel to 3rd world countries and exotic places because of the things that anyone can learn!

when I was 16, I visited Vietnam and Cambodia with my father and grandfather for three and a half weeks. At one point, my father and I volunteered to help a man in a Cambodian hospital - which was nothing more than an open-air concrete building with no beds, makeshift supplies, and a volunteer doctor who got paid based on what the families could provide. His injured daughter was being treated for a moped accident that had occurred a month before and the family visibly appreciated our emotional support. Learning to help a family that I had just met two days before with such a horrible event helped me realize what I can do to help young families who are struggling with basic needs and health. By helping to engineer new and inventive ways of helping people around the world is one of my grandeous dreams.
I want to study global engineering at Boulder and be a part of the RAP because of the unique opportunities I have been gifted and I want to share my knowledge and attitude with the world. I believe this community will have very similar interests and beliefs when it comes to love and caring for one another. I am a natural born leader and adventurer who loves to socialize with anyone. As a future engineer, I hope to make life long friends and to change the world around me with engineering. I will include everyone who has a caring attitude and I would love to plan out trips to make lifelong memories and to help out those in need. I cannot wait for the opportunity to meet everyone who I will love and appreciate for the next year and more.