Kathryn R. Morrison
Wake Forest University, 2011
The modest objective of this organization is to encourage in our applicants a consideration of how a relationship with their present and past selves in conjunction with how their university has influenced them intellectually can fuel their ambitions in a way that is unrealized by the average student. Both through our life experiences and the personal world which we have been fated, each of us have been given certain gifts and challenges, yet there are few who realize this principle and even fewer who design their life and their life’s education around a leverage of this idea.
This project receives numerous essays every semester, most of which are very good and do a great job exploring the relevance of these topics to their lives, and this occasion was no different. One, however, stood out as exceptional and captured this sentiment perfectly.
A sophomore at Wake Forest University and native of Columbus, Ohio, Kathryn offered an introspection of enriching life experiences that exhibited a maturity and self-perception beyond her years. With an acute sense of benevolence and foresight, she is earnestly meeting the challenge of her major field of Psychology while assuming a formidable dual minor program in Mathematics and Neuroscience.
Through these fields of study she is seeking to integrate her gifts, her experiences and her challenges into ways that are expected to achieve relevance and purpose which will shape our world and hers for the better in coming years and decades.
It is her current aim to utilize these undergraduate years in establishing the foundation for a career in medicine, the stated purpose of which to 'help as many people as (I) can'. It is of some doubt that she simply ‘helps out’ in the lives of others, it is more likely she has an effect that will be exponentially positive and uplifting to everyone who has the good fortune of knowing her.
An ardent Demon Deacon, Katie is a member of one of the Atlantic Coast Conference’s premier dance teams and is likewise an impassioned traveler. With much anticipation, her college experience will be greatly enhanced next Summer as she participates in a WFU-sponsored 5-week tour of western Europe, touring and getting to know its best museums and other elements of renown. We are very proud to be associated with someone as generous, intelligent and talented as she.
Phillip Charles Musgrave, Jr
November 28, 2008
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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