Reflective Essays: Developing your ISP
We were expected to write two essays over the summer before entering the CEP program. The purpose of these essays was for us to think about what interested us in our education so that we could begin to form ideas about our educational path to develop into our ISPs. This was the starting place of a journey through which I explored the meaning and importance of my education, while deciding what and how I wanted to study my interests. These essays are where I began, and my Senior Project is where my education took me. Our essays are based on the following prompts:
1: We begin with a very basic question: What is a college education for? Why is it important to you? What value can it or should it bring? If it does not bring much value, what must change so that it does?
2: In your admissions application you described one or more areas of study that you are interested in – maybe it’s community, or planning, or food systems or any number of other things. Briefly describe one of these interests and then answer the following: Part A: What does it mean to be educated in your selected area? What must an educated person know or be able to do? What qualities, skills, or ways of thinking distinguish a person educated in this area from one who is not? Part B: How do you compare now to this idealized educated person? What do you have now, and what must you develop?
1: We begin with a very basic question: What is a college education for? Why is it important to you? What value can it or should it bring? If it does not bring much value, what must change so that it does?
2: In your admissions application you described one or more areas of study that you are interested in – maybe it’s community, or planning, or food systems or any number of other things. Briefly describe one of these interests and then answer the following: Part A: What does it mean to be educated in your selected area? What must an educated person know or be able to do? What qualities, skills, or ways of thinking distinguish a person educated in this area from one who is not? Part B: How do you compare now to this idealized educated person? What do you have now, and what must you develop?
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