After spending time at other colleges, I have to say that there is something very special about Rutgers-Newark. Newark has something special and powerful that I still haven't found anyplace else. In Newark, I found sincerity in the teachers who have a real love for their students. They encouraged them to create a dynamic intellectual environment - not an environment of intellectual conformity. I can honestly say that the person I have become and the things that I am now accomplishing would not have been possible without my time at Rutgers-Newark. I owe a huge part of who I am to the year I spent there. Newark gave me so much.
I think that Rutgers-Newark has also taught me morality, by stressing the importance of social justice and diversity. I use to think that Rutgers-Newark was self-segregated, but I think that students were forced to interact and admit that other people of different religions, cultures and backgrounds actually existed - the very environment itself forced them to expand their horizons. None of this was as true at the other schools I've attended. I've been a bit intellectually disappointed with some of my other college towns and environments. I miss Newark.
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