Entry 56: Big Apple

Our university is "In and of the City" and "In and of the World." What does the concept of a global network university mean to you? How do you think studying in New York City, Abu Dhabi, or one of our global sites would change you as a person and equip you to build cross-cultural relationships at our university and beyond?
--NYU

• A global network university is a very appealing concept to me. Why? Because it means that I will have many advantages compared to people who do not attend a global network university. I will be able to experience many new cultures around me. I would have to adapt to a new environment first, since I would be studying abroad from my country. Then, I will be able to interact with a variety of different types of people from different cultures all over the world. What a global network provides is diversity. I will be able to meet new people, and I will learn how to cooperate with them in order to complete a superordinate goal, despite our ethnic, or any other, differences. The other advantage of being in a global network university is that I will be able to work with other universities around the world/globe because many of them would be connected to the global network university. Finally, the best advantage in my opinion would be that I would be able to acquire and attain the newest information and ideas from all over the globe, because a global network center means very, very advanced technology. I believe that in present day, one of the most important things to success would be information and technology, all of which a global network university would provide me.

Entry 55: Public Interest

Respond to the quotation below. It is not necessary to research, read, or refer to the texts from which these quotations are taken; we are looking for original, personal responses to these short excerpts. Remember that your essay should be personal in nature and not simply an argumentative essay.

“It seems to me incumbent upon this and other schools’ graduates to recognize their responsibility to the public interest...unless the graduates of this college...are willing to put back into our society those talents, the broad sympathy, the understanding, the compassion...then obviously the presuppositions upon which our democracy are based are bound to be fallible.”
--John F. Kennedy, at the ground breaking for the Amherst College Frost Library, October 26, 1963

• I believe that graduates of any college must put back and return their talents to society, for the public interest. The people who go to school and receive an education must at least return sometime back to the society and neighborhood that allowed them to grow and succeed, as well as prosper. As the quote mentioned, the people within a group are the most important part of democracy, and without the people, the democracy will fall. Another situation where the democracy might fall may be when the people constituting the democracy do not contribute and sustain the democracy. Therefore, as the quote mentions above, the talents of these educated people must to placed back into society for the wider, public interest; they have to contribute to society.
• The main way that people can contribute to society would be to enter the work force and get a job that will be able to put their talents to good use. I would most likely get a job that has to do with mass communication and psychology, since these two fields are the ones that I am most interested in. To be more specific, I would most likely be concentrating on consumer marketing and advertising, since these two are most closely related with psychology (so I can out my psychology to good use).