Unlike other college students, Ihave acquired my career ambitions from several years of work experience rather than feeling an attraction to a field only encounteredin textbooks and contemplated in theory. Ten years ago, after three years of college, I interrupted my education to explore alternate goals. I trained as a chef, and after working in the field here and abroad, came eventually to spend four years working as a live-in governess. I verymuch enjoyed working with the children, and found myself fascinatedby their growth and development. I began to feel frustrated, however, bymy lack of knowledge and experience. This feeling led to my decision to complete formal education, with a concentration in developmental and educational psychology. I am very interested in the educational process; how children learn and, more importantly,why they do not. I would like to explore this field as a student and eventually as a researcher. There are many aspects of child development I would like to study, particularly those areas involving academic skills.I hope also to teach at the college level. This will of course not be possible without an advanced degree, and it is therefore my intention to continue my studies at the graduate level.
In order to realize my goal of getting into graduate school, I have worked very hard to achieve high grades. I am quite proud of my 4.0 average and intend to make every effort to maintain it. I have compiled this record while working a full forty hour week in order to defray the costs of my education. I currently work as a proofreader for several financial houses, Morgan Stanley and Shearson Lehman, chief among them.Copyediting work on investment materials and financial reports is a strenuous mental exercise which takes up time that I would prefer to utilize in studying and research. I am therefore applying for this scholarship in the hope that I will be able to reduce my work hours somewhat, and thus devote more of my mental energies to my studie
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