The document contains personal statements from several students about their individual and civic purposes for attending college. Key details include: - Karenna Roest wants to study public health to impact healthcare policy and increase access to resources worldwide. - Alice Wou aims to challenge racial segregation in Detroit by changing attitudes towards injustice. - Gwendolyn Klenke wants to provide a platform for privileged voices and be an ally for others. - Several students discuss goals of helping their communities through careers like dentistry, education, or medicine. - Many emphasize using their education to promote social justice, dismantle oppression, and make positive change.

1. My personal purpose for going to
college is to further my education so
that I can get a career in the heath care
field. I care about the availability of
quality heath care for everyone whether
it be in poorer areas of the United
States, or in third world nations that do
not have access to the types of resources
that we do in this country. I will impact
this issue by potentially pursuing public
health so that I can be part of the policy
making that impacts the level of heath
care resources available throughout the
world.
-Karenna Roest

2. My personal purpose of going to college
is to test my skills and push myself to
see just how much I can do. My public
purpose for going to college is to receive
a higher education and to be able to
support myself in the future. I care
about the racial segregation that goes on
within metropolitan Detroit and I will
impact that segregation by starting
small and changing my peers' and
community's attitude towards racial
injustice.
-Alice Wou

3. My individual, personal purpose for
going to college is to provide for my
future family. My public, civic purpose
for going to college is to become more
educated and have a place to discuss
social justice as a whole. I care about
those who don't have privileges that I
do because I'm white. I will impact this
groups by providing them a platform to
speak and being an ally.
-Gwendolyn Klenke

4. 1. My personal purpose for going to
college is to become a Dentist.
2. My public purpose for going to
college is to help my community with
their dental issues.
3. I care about my friends, family, and
community.
4. I will impact my family by helping
them retire and keeping their happiness
stable.
-Ahmad Chammout

5. My individual, personal purpose for
going to college is for extended
education and success. My public, civic
purpose for going to college is the 4 C's:
Community, creation, camaraderie,
clarity. I care about positivity and
community. I will impact community
with communication.
-Gloria Park

6. My individual and personal reason for going to college is so that I can
help to educate others. My public reason for going to college is to get my
degree so I can get a better job. I care about helping others around me
and making them feel better about themselves. I will impact my
community by educating them on social justice issues and trying to make
the world a better place for everyone no matter their social identity.
#SYD2017
-Zoe Lightbody

7. My individual, personal purpose for
going to college is to get ready for a job
that I will enjoy. My public, civic
purpose for going to college is to make
people recognize me as a person that is
successful. I care about my future the
most. I will impact the people around
me by giving them a hand when in need
of help.
-Ryan Yang

8. 1. My individual, personal purposes for
going to college is to meet more people
of contrasting ethnicities and eventually
graduate to earn a decent income.
2. My public, civic purpose for going to
college is to help unite communities for
and enlighten others on their roles and
capabilities in society.
3. I care about being able to support my
family along with myself.
4. I will impact my community by being
a model of the education system.
-Kareem El-Khatib

9. My individual, personal purpose for
going to college is to expand my
knowledge and spark a journey of
deeper thinking upon societal issues.
My public, civic purpose for going to
college is use my new knowledge and
initiate change within my community. I
care about bringing justice to various
social oppression because it affects not
only me, but people globally and by
helping to bring justice, I will be giving
and hand to these people. I will impact
the people in my life and around me by
showing them that a single person can
make a difference.
-Daniel Chung

10. My individual/personal and public/civic
purpose for going to college is to expand my
knowledge and skills to fight prejudice. I care
about dismantling privilege, to ensure everyone
has equitable opportunities to succeed. I will
impact white privilege by consciously learning
about my actions that perpetuate white privilege.
-Harry Susalla

11. My individual, personal purpose for
going to college is to obtain life long
knowledge and become the best
individual I can be in whatever career
path I go into. My civic purpose is to
pursue activities within social justice to
showcase my determination to be apart
of the change I want to see. I care about
changing the world, even if it is
something small and simple, it still
makes a difference; we will be once step
closer to a better world for all people.
-Tahani Almujahid

12. My individual, personal purpose for
going to college is to elevate my
education in order to gain insight,
experience, and lessons required in
order to pursue my desired career
choice and to move further in life in
general. This would also lead to me
eventually being able to get a job, and it
is at this point in my life that I hope to
be able to support my family after all
they've done to get me where I am, and
also be able to begin making positive
change in my community, and other
communities as well.
-Yasmine Slimani

13. 1. My individual purpsose for going to
college is to pursue a lifetime career and
ensure that I'll be better off in the future.
2. My civic purpose for going to college
is to benefit the bettering of society as a
whole, by educating myself and others
around me.
3. I care about everyone I meet, and
their goals and interests. Everyone
deserves equal representation in our
society.
4. I will impact my society by using my
creativity and bold views to influence
the people around me.
-Cade Mirabitur

14. 1. My individual purpose is to show myself that I can do great things in life. I want to make my
family proud. My family deserves the best and I want to give them a better life.
2. My purpose for going to college is to become a role model. I want students that are entering
high school to see that aiming high isn't a bad idea. I wanna show them that anything is
possible no matter if you don't have the most expensive materials.
3. I care about being a role model. I care for the kids that don't have opportunities.
4. I will impact by helping others that are less unfortunate. I want to inspire and pass on the
baton of change. I will impact by motivating others.
-Bernie Velasquez

15. 1. I want to go to college to fulfill my
dream of going into something creative.
2. I want to also go to college to help
out other people.
3. I care about social justice, racial
injustice, and about making a change in
my community.
4. I will make an impact by helping out
other people with their action plans
because I can not think of one my own.
-Malcolm Massey

16. 1) My personal purpose for going to
college is to better myself and to better
equip myself to make a positive impact
in my community and out world.
2) My civic purpose for going to college
is to become a more productive member
of society.
3) I care about the trajectory of society
and challenging the inequities currently
in place. We live in a country and a
world where our differences determine
our lives and the resulting divisions
serve nothing but hurting our
communities and our neighbors. I care
about changing that reality.
-Maren Roeske

17. I'd like to stress a certain "3 E's":
education, economy, and empathy. In
order to establish a progressive society,
these "3 E's" must be implemented by
our generation. A strong higher
education can and will maximize our
potential as well as our consequent
impact on society. Personally, I'm
working towards an education in
medicine, since it is one of the few fields
today that promotes growth in all of the
"3 E's".
-Jein Eleanor Seo

18. Tyler Smith

19. My public, civic purpose for going to
college is to educate myself and move
forward in making a difference in the
aspects of society that need to change.
My personal, individual purpose for
going to college is to better myself and
eventually make a living. I care about
my community and making it a better
place, which I will impact by working
towards desegregating the city,
integrating immigrants into society, and
training our teachers against
discriminating against students based
on ethnicity, race, and/or gender.
-Afnan Tolba

20. 1. I want to go to college to further my
education, educate myself, and to put
myself in the position to assist more
people in life and support my family.
2. My public purpose for going to
college is so I can give back to the
community using the knowledge
gained by my degree.
3. I care about improving my quality of
life.
4. I will impact the people around me
by striving to be the best version of
myself and to put myself in the right
spot to help them and support them.
-Hassan Hammoud

21. My personal purpose for college is to follow
the path of furthering my education, not only
for myself, but for my family, making them
proud and just being successful showing that
as a Black Female individual I too can make
it and I am smart and intelligent. Also, I will
impact society by fighting for what is right.
Teaching about my cultural background and
good things about my race.
Onward, it is not just my skin color that
makes me who I am… it is me as a person.
Race does not patter to me and stereotypes
shouldn’t and isn’t a thing in my eyes.
Being able to be sensitive to what others go
through with racial profiling, gender issues,
lacking coalition (getting together as one),
classes in society, and so much more is what
matters. #SYD2017
-Mackenzie Martin-Turner

22. My individual, personal purpose for
going to college is to expand my
knowledge and see life through a new
lens.
My public, civil purpose for going to
college is to use my newly gained
knowledge to share new ideas, listen to
new ideas, and help those around me.
I care about self expression through art
and music, helping those who aren't
heard, the civil and social rights of all
humans, and making myself and those
around me happy.
I will impact those who are near and far
from me by always trying my very best
to improve mine, and their lives.
-Marina Ackerman

23. 1)Considerations I have about my family, neighborhood,
community or society is first most accepting who I am as
a person and also acceptance of my dream. I want them
to believe in me and listen to my voice. I'm concerned
about facing them with disappointment.
2)I hope I can achieve my goals of uniting my
community and the surrounding communities. I want
different people from all races and ethics to come in one
table and enjoy others difference. I also want to change
the negative views that my people have and make them
more open to others because we're all humans in the end.
3)Ways going to college can help me bring back to my
community and my family is that it will teach me to have
a round eye to the others in the world. The higher the
education the better because I can teach my people what
I learn.
-Fadel Muthana

24. I want to go to college so I can gain
more knowledge on the world we live
in and experience things outside of my
comfort zone. I feel that in order to
make change in my community I will
need to be more credible and
knowledgable, which is another reason
I feel that college is needed. I will
impact my community by constantly
being involved in social justice and
providing resources and a platform for
those who need it.
-Juliet Kosmyna-Blake

25. My individual, personal purpose for going to college is to have a good
future and make my parents proud. My public, civic purpose for going to
college is to show everyone that everything is possible. I care about making
everyone proud that helped me through the journey that is yet to end. I will
impact younger siblings, friends, and others by trying to be the best role
model for them to know that with support you can accomplish anything.
#SYD2017
-Mario Llanas

26. My individual purpose for going to
college is to get the education required
to get a good job and live a comfortable
life. My public, civic purpose for going
to college is to meet new people and
learn their stories. I care about all
people and I want everyone to live a
happy life. I will impact my peers
through my action project by letting
them experience the same simulations
as I got to experience at syd.
-Blake King

27. 1) My individual, personal purpose for
going to college is furthering my
education and having an opportunity to
pursue my passions in ecology, physics,
or whatever my interests may develop
to be.
2) My public, civic purpose for going to
college is environmental justice.
3) I care about the environment and the
socioeconomic inequities that result
from environmental degradation. I want
to play a part in creating a sustainable
future for humanity.
4) I will impact the course of climate
change and environmental racism by
pursuing a career in scientific research
and seeking solutions to environmental
problems.
-Zijin Huang

28. Hannah Ho

29. My personal purpose for going to
college is to broaden my language and
meet new and a diverse group of
people.
-Troy Herd

30. My individual, personal purpose for
going to college is to provide
opportunity in my life.
My public, civic purpose for going to
college is to gain access to the next level
of education and enlightenment.
I care about my family, religious beliefs,
as well as the idea of coexistence.
I will impact the people in my family by
sharing my enlightened experience at
SYD. I hope to reinforce the idea of
acceptance in my community and what
it means to truly stand for the concept
of social justice.
-Nesreen Shukr

31. 1) My individual and personal purpose for going to college is wanting to get a good education and make my present
and future family, my religious and racial community, as well as myself proud.
2) My public and civic purpose for going to college is to set a good example of how an Arab who is Druze and not
Muslim is and break the racial and religious disrespect and intolerance there is in my community and hopefully
educate people and have them follow in my footsteps
3) I care about people treating others how they would like to be treated and respecting their racial and religious
identities and realizing that the color of skin, shape of eyes, or beliefs of others does not make them any less of a
person than everyone else, just different.
4) I will impact racial and religious injustice by educating as many people as I can and getting educated myself on
social justice issues as well as in a way to become a highly respected doctor and do great important things and be
someone people like to listen to so I can set an example of how to treat others and have people hopefully follow my
lead.
-Hamsa Ezzi

32. My individual, personal purpose for
going to college is to create change. By
attending college, I can discover how I
wanna leave my mark on the world. I
can become involved in something I'm
truly passionate about and find where
I'm supposed to belong.
-Alex Schafer

33. My individual, personal purpose for going to college is so that I can better
myself and make my parents proud. My public, civic purpose for going to
college is so I can prove that anything is possible as long as you put your mind
to it. I care about social justice and changing the world for the better. I will
impact by being a role model and implementing everything SYD has taught me
to my everyday life. #SYD2017
-Alexandra Castro