Why I Want to Continue My Education

This is "Why I Want to Continue My Education" essay in which I explaine why for me having a high level of education is paramount importance and only after this - having a job.

Our world is changing as we know it and most of the population doesn't seem to bat an eye. Now more than ever we need specialists in sustainability and environment. We must not forget that we ourselves are members of and manipulators of the ecosystems we inhabit. We are a part of the biosphere. We were produced by it; we live within it; and we are beginning to change it in ways we don’t yet fully understand. The state of emergency is real, as is climate change. And I want to be part of the solution.

I want to continue my education and study a master’s degree in Environment and Sustainability at the Stanford University because I want to be on the fore front of the change movement, and because this will allow me to pursue a career that actually gives back something to our communities, to places, and to our planet.

Although I may not have prior education or work experience in this field, I am passionate about the subject and I challenge myself everyday to try and make a difference. I live in a tight-knit warehouse community, which allows me to hold many sustainability events such as monthly clothes swaps in order to educate people on impacts of fast fashion, we also have started a Tidy-Up movement in our area to reduce household waste, promote the 3R Movement: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. We run workshops on upcycling, making seed bombs, tree planting. Promoting sustainability has allowed me to bring people together and be part of a movement that is fighting to make the future a better place.

It’s quite fascinating to be writing this while being in a lockdown due to a worldwide pandemic. This reiterates my point even further, we cannot go back to llife as it was. We have to create change and we have to do it now. Public awareness is building together with the desire to make a difference. Our growing exploitation of the resources of ecosystems is endangering their ability to support themselves and us.

I have decided to spend my time in isolation learning about permaculture, as I want to gain a deeper understanding of sustainable and productive system design for food production, land management and living. I have also started many online courses in ecology, … and I have started building my own garden space at home.

I would love to gain quantitative skills and hands on experience by learning from the leaders in this field who use their intelligence to work with nature rather than against it. I would also like to complete a master’s degrre because I love lerning, I love knowing how things work. To me, studying environment is about gaining understanding of nature, and I find the whole system and the infinite complexity of it fascinating. I have passion for the subject, and I'd like to turn this passion into a career. As we move into the next decade, the 'decade of action', I believe people will start to realise