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Ahmed Atef Posted 17 years ago
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Please review my personal statement
Hi all Please review my personal statement and tell me if there are any mistakes in it.
My interest in law began with fatness. As a child, I was the fattest kid in the school consequently I used to get annoyed by stronger healthier kids and I had to argue with them to stop teasing me. I realized later my persuasive skills when I convinced them not only to stop bothering me but also to be my friends, I realized also my iron will when I decided to lose weight and turn myself to be the thinnest guy among my friends and since that day my motto is "Failure is not an option".
Winning debates, my persuasive and negotiating skills and defending myself were not the sole reasons for my interest in law. I've always noticed that most of the remarkable leaders and pioneers in the Egyptian history were graduates of law schools like Saad Zaghloul, Mustafa Kamil and Mohammad Farid, the three have statutes in three important squares in Cairo. Also Dr.Mustafa Mohamed ElBaradei, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is a graduate of a law school, Dr.ElBaradei and IAEA were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005. I want to be like those respectable men, I want to be remarkable through my contributions to my people and to the whole world like Dr.ElBaradei.
Hence I dedicated my life to that goal, I studied hard at the high school to get grades that enables me to go to the best law school in Egypt, and I made it when I graduated from the high school with a grade of 91.5% which was even more than I need to go to my preferable law school. So I was accepted in it and even in the English Section where almost my whole studies were in English, I believed that my studies should be in English as long as we are at the era of globalization and the effect of boarders is much less and for the same reasons I had English conversation courses at Amideast to enhance my language and finished it with the final score.
At the college I was active from the first days on the academic and social level which made me remarkable for both professors and students; I used to be active in class with professors in addition to organizing trips. Also I was the moderator of the online group that I made to let students know each other and be able to contact professors who were members in it too. Beside that I volunteered to help employees of student affairs to reach the whole class at once through the online group to let them know about new schedules, and I was elected to represent the class before the dean when there is an issue that needs his interference. All that didn't impede me from studying hard in order to make my dream come true and this is evidenced by my cumulative grade which is "Very Good".
Being popular clever student made my colleagues and younger law students recourse to me to help them with studying their subjects, and that was the time when I realized that I can teach and like to; so that after graduation I became a volunteer tutor.
After graduation with few months I became a member at the Egyptian bar association, however my practical training was started much earlier as I used to get summer internships at my father's law firm but because I always like to get new experiences I worked first at the legal department in Mansour Chevrolet Company (Mansour Group) where I got special knowledge about corporations, contracts and transactions which inspired me to specialize in commercial law, then worked at Kamel Law Firm for six months before I start working with my father.
I've no doubt now that I want to be a distinguished lawyer specialized in business law on the international level and I'm sure that goal will not be achieved with a national study only but needs further studies at the finest law schools in the world to be qualified to make my dream come true, and may the day come when Egyptians be proud that I'm one of them as exactly as we are proud that Dr.Ahmed Zewail and Dr.ElBaradei are Egyptians.
My interest in law began with fatness. As a child, I was the fattest kid in the school consequently I used to get annoyed by stronger healthier kids and I had to argue with them to stop teasing me. I realized later my persuasive skills when I convinced them not only to stop bothering me but also to be my friends, I realized also my iron will when I decided to lose weight and turn myself to be the thinnest guy among my friends and since that day my motto is "Failure is not an option".
Winning debates, my persuasive and negotiating skills and defending myself were not the sole reasons for my interest in law. I've always noticed that most of the remarkable leaders and pioneers in the Egyptian history were graduates of law schools like Saad Zaghloul, Mustafa Kamil and Mohammad Farid, the three have statutes in three important squares in Cairo. Also Dr.Mustafa Mohamed ElBaradei, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is a graduate of a law school, Dr.ElBaradei and IAEA were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005. I want to be like those respectable men, I want to be remarkable through my contributions to my people and to the whole world like Dr.ElBaradei.
Hence I dedicated my life to that goal, I studied hard at the high school to get grades that enables me to go to the best law school in Egypt, and I made it when I graduated from the high school with a grade of 91.5% which was even more than I need to go to my preferable law school. So I was accepted in it and even in the English Section where almost my whole studies were in English, I believed that my studies should be in English as long as we are at the era of globalization and the effect of boarders is much less and for the same reasons I had English conversation courses at Amideast to enhance my language and finished it with the final score.
At the college I was active from the first days on the academic and social level which made me remarkable for both professors and students; I used to be active in class with professors in addition to organizing trips. Also I was the moderator of the online group that I made to let students know each other and be able to contact professors who were members in it too. Beside that I volunteered to help employees of student affairs to reach the whole class at once through the online group to let them know about new schedules, and I was elected to represent the class before the dean when there is an issue that needs his interference. All that didn't impede me from studying hard in order to make my dream come true and this is evidenced by my cumulative grade which is "Very Good".
Being popular clever student made my colleagues and younger law students recourse to me to help them with studying their subjects, and that was the time when I realized that I can teach and like to; so that after graduation I became a volunteer tutor.
After graduation with few months I became a member at the Egyptian bar association, however my practical training was started much earlier as I used to get summer internships at my father's law firm but because I always like to get new experiences I worked first at the legal department in Mansour Chevrolet Company (Mansour Group) where I got special knowledge about corporations, contracts and transactions which inspired me to specialize in commercial law, then worked at Kamel Law Firm for six months before I start working with my father.
I've no doubt now that I want to be a distinguished lawyer specialized in business law on the international level and I'm sure that goal will not be achieved with a national study only but needs further studies at the finest law schools in the world to be qualified to make my dream come true, and may the day come when Egyptians be proud that I'm one of them as exactly as we are proud that Dr.Ahmed Zewail and Dr.ElBaradei are Egyptians.
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