Anonymous
2026 · 483 단어
While I practice Buddhism and worship my ancestors, I like the idea of being at a Christian university, because I identify with the Christian values of empathy, fairness and education. This is my faith.
Every year, my family and I visit my parents' hometown and other rural areas in Vietnam to donate money and essentials to disadvantaged families and orphans. Each time I witness their circumstances, my heart aches. Full of empathy, I knew even at eleven years old that when I got older, I wanted to do more to bring happiness to these people's lives in the future.
During my junior year at my new high school, I established the Vietnamese Student Association (VSA) and seized the opportunity to fundraise for the orphanages in my hometown, Da Nang City. Besides organizing fundraisers, I partnered with the Yarn Club to make keychains to sell. The $800 we raised helped provide the children with new clothes and school supplies. At Pepperdine, I want to continue to help kids by establishing a club that supports disadvantaged children from all around the world.
I often think about these children, and how unfair it is that they were born into a life of poverty. That's why I want to become a social entrepreneur: to use business principles to find solutions for a more just world. I want to major in International Business at Pepperdine, and take classes such as International Management and International Relations, because I hope to one day run a global company that will help address poverty and other social problems on a global scale. Moreover, Pepperdine's unique courses, like Social Action and Justice Colloquium and Service Leadership Project will help me to understand the causes of poverty, and find solutions to combat them through the lens of non-profit organizations.
While I do want to start a social enterprise, I also want to establish a traditional non-profit that will help provide free education for underprivileged children; a minor degree in Nonprofit Management will help me achieve it. There is an old saying in my family: "No matter how poor you are, you have to succeed in education." Through education, my parents and their families were able to overcome poverty, and they have inspired me to succeed and to one day pay it forward to others.
While my faith may revolve around my values, at Pepperdine, I am also eager to partake in religion-based classes. From the World Religion course that I took sophomore year, I learned that every religion promotes acts of kindness and care for others, which resonated with me. I'd like to delve into that further in the Philosophy of Religion course, where I will learn about the intellectual foundations of religious beliefs.
Empathy, Fairness, and Education. These are the values that I'll bring to Pepperdine's community, and I hope that Pepperdine will teach me how to bring these values to the world.