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2021-03-20 11:31:41

application for UGS

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I know myself better than anyone else does. Only I can say about myself that I am the most unpredictable and purposeful person. I’m unpredictable because I have a huge variety of different interests: I can get interested in psychological books, but on the very next day I will start studying the art of photography. I don’t think it’s good that I can’t focus just on one thing at the time, but I am always trying to learn as much new things as I can. Anyway, the hardworking side of me helps to finish all this things I started. I want to be a writer or journalist. I want to be a person who can let know about himself to the whole world. I like to talk, communicate, learn new language to be able to open one more door to the different culture. I am also excited when I find out something new for me. Something like a history event, that I’ve never heard about before, or a new mathematical formula. And I love to share with this information with everyone! Since I was 15 I started writing small stories that would be easy to read. I realized I am pretty good at writing when all my friends told me they love my stories! After that they asked me to write something new. My friends shared my works with teachers at school. And a little bit later the whole school knew me like a local author. A lot of people were saying I am talented and I couldn’t believe it. Teachers made me participate in republican competitions and olympiads. I was even published in small newspaper a few times. I like writing because I like the process of recreating the feelings into words. I like the moment when you read what you wrote and can totally imagine and feel what it’s talking about. I like how you can create your own characters. You create your own world. It’s amazing! But there’s another side of journalism exists. And you have to tale it seriously. It’s about political events or economy situations. From my point of view, journalist must know what his work is about and, of course, check the information and sources he/she uses. Unfortunately, I know what the “Informational War” is. Such a type of a war can be a bad weapon against the countries. It makes me sad when you can't explain to every citizen that news reports may not be true. I was born and raised in Donetsk, and only a year ago I moved to Dnipro. I faced terrible times. Since 2014 I wanted to escape from there, but it’s not easy to do. Anyway, a lot changed since I moved and only memories left. I was telling this just now to show that I faced enough to get a good life experience. After that I know how wrong the TV can be. I was seeing what’s actually going on in the city, but 3 different countries were telling absolutely different stories about that. Even in social media you can't find the truth. The disinformation makes you go insane when you don't even know what's going on outside. All they do is just playing with your emotions. So after analyzing my experience I understand how important it is to say truth. I think that my application would be incomplete without what I wrote above. My hobby became a big part of me and my life. Hopefully, I will find the right people who will help me make my dreams come true and I will get into a good college/University that will help me to improve my talents so I could improve my country. ------- I think every challenge in your life is a chance to make your life better. I got only one big “problem” that changed my life. It is the biggest disease not only in my life, but in life of every Ukrainian too. It is the war in Donetsk - city where I was born and where I’ve lived for the last 16 years. I can’t explain how hard it is to live among not smart people who chose to build a “republic” with an economic hole instead of budget. Anyway, experience of living in the city like that makes me much stronger. I faced a big destruction, so I did my best to go back to normal life in Ukraine and make people better, so nobody will build any other republics never again. So, when i was in 9th grade, the boy named Maxim came to our class. I wasn't very confident, but everyone always likes me, so then it wasn't a big problem to me. I spoke to maxim sometimes, but it didnt a start of e new friendship, but in November small group from our lyceum goes to the Saint-Peterburg, and me and Maxim was in it. In Piter he was so sweet and funny that i think we should be friends so told him a couple of my secrets. Unfortunately, when we went home, he started to use this information against me. He knew that i think im fat or that im not the prettiest girl in the world, so he started to bullying me. It was very sad to me, because nobody didn't stop him, they just thought that it's a funny joke. But i didn't. Anyway, now i'm sure that im not fat and i like myself, and maybe i even thankful to him because this situation makes me stronger and more confident. ------- I know that the USA education quality is higher, so it will allow me to be more effective like a professional in my circle of interests. First, it can help me improve my country by teaching me and showing how the successful country works. Journalism is one of the most powerful and effective departments in every country. By doing the right things you can improve primarily ukrainian society, and this can bring us, of course, to the better version of Ukraine. Nowdays we have a lot of problems such as war or lack of funding, but we can solve them if we start from the smallest point - people, and this is the main part of journalism. =----- The lyceum where I studied has many extracurricular activities,. One of them is a club for writing where you create a newspaper about lyceum’s life. It calls “Newspaper of smart people.” When i was in 8th grade I thought it would be so much fun doing that, so I joined and started writing short articles about the life of the students here. But the year after the newspaper was looking for template designer, and my IT teacher suggested me like the best candidate for that. So I upgraded the design of a simple school newspaper to the new level. But in 10th grade the school commission decided I would be a good leader, so my name was always in the first column on this school newspaper. I can surely say it was an amazing experience in working like a big team with other students!