Admission Essay
As an individual, I am shaped by my life experiences; everything I have been through shapes me into what I am today. In that way, I have been forged from struggle and discomfort; growing up in Sierra Leone (a small country in West Africa), my childhood was filled with conflict and corruption - ever since the Civil War which broke out in the 1990s, one borne of socioeconomic issues that left almost all of us beggars, and government corruption which ensured that no one was listening to our problems, the people of my country were (and continue to be) destitute, ...