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wrote this for a job application. quite proud of it.

After finishing my A Levels, I faced a crossroad in where to attend university. I was offered a full scholarship by the Singaporean government to study at the national university but I was reluctant to accept it because I wanted to experience life in a context that is foreign from the one that I was used to. I chose instead to study at Messiah College, a liberal arts institution in the United States.

I wanted to study in an institution that did not inhibit creative thought but instead promoted it through multiple disciplines. During these past two and a half years, I have enrolled in theatre, literature, writing, theology, politics and history classes alongside my required economics and mathematics classes. My decision was not free of sacrifices; to alleviate the financial burden of a US college education, I had to forgo summer vacations at home and worked on campus for two summers in a row.

Despite taking the unconventional route to a degree, I think that I have emerged a more educated and cultured individual. I have used Messiah College as a springboard to a travelling experience. I spent a semester in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where I saw the stark contrast between urban and rural America. I participated in two week-long service trips, one to Camden, New Jersey and one to Atlanta, Georgia where I realized, while dishing out macaroni and cheese for homeless individuals in a soup kitchen that America had more dimensions than I had thought.

Currently, my education has brought me to London where I obtained an internship at a respectable investment bank and where I am currently exposed to a whole new set of cultures and people.

After finishing my A Levels, I set off to the United States only to discover the rest of the world.