While at the same time, Georgetown can help me examine my defects and find a way to use them to my advantage. “Cura Personalis” reminds me that without my acknowledging my flaws and letting people help to improve them, I would not the best person I could be. My Dad, Georgetown University alumni, has a shirt with “Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam” inscribed on the back of it. A.M.D.G is not only the one thing my dad says I am allowed to get tattooed on my body, but, more importantly, it is a Jesuit saying which means, “For the Greater Glory of God”. Growing up in a Catholic family, going to a private Catholic school, religion has always been a part of my life. It has never left, but sometimes it is more prominently there than in other times. This phrase reminds me that because I want to show God’s presence in my life, I want to get a better education and challenge myself at such a university as Georgetown. I want to serve others and grow both academically and spiritually so that I can demonstrate my strong belief in my religion. This leads me to the Jesuit value that I feel most perfectly expresses my choice of an American Studies major at Georgetown University, “Educating the Whole
While at the same time, Georgetown can help me examine my defects and find a way to use them to my advantage. “Cura Personalis” reminds me that without my acknowledging my flaws and letting people help to improve them, I would not the best person I could be. My Dad, Georgetown University alumni, has a shirt with “Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam” inscribed on the back of it. A.M.D.G is not only the one thing my dad says I am allowed to get tattooed on my body, but, more importantly, it is a Jesuit saying which means, “For the Greater Glory of God”. Growing up in a Catholic family, going to a private Catholic school, religion has always been a part of my life. It has never left, but sometimes it is more prominently there than in other times. This phrase reminds me that because I want to show God’s presence in my life, I want to get a better education and challenge myself at such a university as Georgetown. I want to serve others and grow both academically and spiritually so that I can demonstrate my strong belief in my religion. This leads me to the Jesuit value that I feel most perfectly expresses my choice of an American Studies major at Georgetown University, “Educating the Whole