Sample Autobiography

When I sit back and consider the significant events in my past, the important aspects of my current life, and my future goals, the underlying theme is one of appreciating diversity, peculiarly across ethnic and socioeconomic class lines. I was born and elevated in Brooklyn, New York, the product of a Catholic father with grow in Italy and a Jewish mother of Russian and Austrian ancestry. In my early geezerhood of education, the frustration with t distributivelyers mispronouncing my last name seemed as though it might never end.I remember how my father would approach the administrators of my elementary school before Honor Roll ceremonies to be sure they would tell it correctly as I walked across the stage for my moment of glory. The brat did not end until the seventh grade when I had my first wrangle in Spanish, at which point my teacher had some experience with exotic names and got you-zee-nee correct on the first try.I believe that I grew more, emotionally, socially, and int ellectually, during my four years of high school than during any other menstruum of time thus far. Midwood High School at Brooklyn College attracted students from e very(prenominal) pct of New York City. Indeed, it provided a rigorous academic environment, and with one college advisor for each graduating class of nearly 700 students, I managed to learn some important lessons nearly dealing with the system. Midwood continues to prepare its students well it has consistently placed among the top 50 in national rankings of high schools. It was at Midwood that I found my academic strengths and was given the tools to pursue them to the fullest extent affirmable. Because I was placed in a situation with few of the resources many students had in other better-funded schools, I acquire how to make the best of the situation. I began to search for a way to shell out my own concerns about the racial tensions.Within a few years I would find myself at Texas A&M University, bringing another(p renominal) drastic change in my lifestyle and the culture I would beget to adapt to. The past few years train been a very enjoyable experience, satisfying all of my intellectual and social needs. I have focused the next few years on developing a solid research program dealing with I have as well as put forth as much effort as possible in attempting to diversify the future of our profession. social psychological approaches to social issues, especially racial and ethnic relations.