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Describe a setback or ethical dilemma that you have faced. How did you resolve it? How did the outcome affect you? If something similar happened in the future, how would you react?
“Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.” My dad read this Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote to me as I was getting ready for my first day of school in America, trying to preach that I must adapt to what he called an alien environment. I couldnt have cared less what Johann Wolfgang von Goethe had to say about changes in life, I thought I knew how to handle this situation perfectly well. My heart kept telling me: School here couldnt be that different from school in India; after all, it IS a school. What added to my borderline arrogance about being fine was the fact that I was schooled in English for ten years prior to coming to US, and I thought it made up for the adaptation phase that most US immigrants go though.
And so, I went through the earlier stage of my US high school career with a subliminal disregard for the need to adapt to this completely new educational system. I was stuck in a phase many call mental inertia unwillingness to change yourself for the better when change occurs. From my school days of India, my mind had formed a schema of how education should be and how things should be done, and this is the only schema that my mind accepted. My mind accepted that I must memorize the whole text-book to do well in school and that I must regurgitate prepared answers word-for-word to receive a good grade in tests. Multiple-choice questions and thinking on my feet during tests did not fit my schema of education. I had never bubbled anything, let alone for a test grade.
Obviously, it didnt take me long to realize that I wasnt quite right about the whole after all, it IS a school thing as almost every aspect of education in US is different from Indias but as my mental inertia was still running strong, memorizing was the way to go for me. And so I did
I memorized everything that my teachers gave me handouts, notes, books everything! Hypothetically, I was completely stressed out during that phase of my life. I was slipping from mental inertia to mental depression. Just as all looked lost, God took the initiative and smacked me on my face, as I received my first ever C on my quarterly report-card. I got the message my Indian style of studying was officially proven ineffective for the US educational system. My mind dumped the mental inertia that was haunting me for 6 months, and realized the need for adaptation. I reshaped my ten-year-old schema in 6 months. I started learning instead of memorizing, and with that adaptation, my report-cards figured the familiar As again. I understood what Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wanted to say I must evolve with evolution.
Even now, as I get ready to attend college, my naïve heart keeps telling me: college couldnt be that different from high school; after all, it IS still a school. It just has a prefix undergraduate attached to it. But I wont let my heart pull another one of those on me. My dad, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and my brain (which is now trained to resist mental inertia) they know better on this issue of change. This time, I will be ready
ready and willing to adapt to the alien environment of college, as I have learned too much from this experience to be oblivious or resistant to change anymore.
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