Essay for College Application: Vibrant Community

My benefits from being part in a vibrant community would be very outstanding. Many people can benefit from different cultures and ways of living. If a person would live the same way their whole life they would become stagnant and mundane. A person needs to experience different kinds of people and have varied groups of friends to become an active member of society. I believe that I can contribute to such a community by having an open mind to new cultures and beliefs. Also, by accepting other’s views one can start to relate to others and befriend others, and in turn, one can also grow from having different friends. If one has a varied group of friends you can have different experiences with different friends. In addition, one’s outlook on life can be changed by being friends with someone who has a completely different background than that person.

For instance, when I first joined the Williamstown Braves Tennis Squad, most of the players on the team were Caucasian, so when an African American player wanted to join everyone was somewhat taken back. However, there were no racial confrontations over that, everyone got along just fine, but everyone grew as a team because there were new cultures and experiences introduced to the team. Also, the player in question happened to be the best on the team, and everyone benefitted from his expertise.

A person that doesn’t know of any cultures but their own will not try to experiment and try something new. Such as when I was growing up I didn’t have a very good variety of friends, so we would hang out and the same places and do the same things all the time, so it would become very boring. Until I went to high school where I met new kinds of people from different age groups and backgrounds, and I made many new friends. When I started going to different places and experiencing different things, I realized that just by meeting new people, you can grow as a person.