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I am only 13 years old, but I have wanted to go to Harvard since I was 6. I want to be a lawyer or a doctor. My family and I are looking into Santa Margarita Catholic High School and Sage Hill School for high school. What extra curriculars do you recomend that I take? What do the admission people at Harvard think is a well rounded student? I play tennis, cross country, and track as my sports. And I ride horses. I do a lot of community service. I heard that they want you to show that you are interested in one thing to show devotion. what are good things to do if you want to be a lawyer or a doctor. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Hi, Leandra!
It's great that you have big dreams, and you will go far if you work hard and believe in yourself!
I'm currently a student at Harvard and just wanted to give you some advice:
-Take extracurriculars that you enjoy! You're right about devotion: that's the secret. Instead of taking a bunch of extracurriculars, you might gain more by delving deeper into a few and getting leadership positions. If you absolutely love playing music, form a band or join an orchestra! If being around people is your thing, volunteer at a day care or shadow a doctor! If you like art, take a pottery class (or just buy some Sculpey--it's great fun). Don't take a particular extracurricular just because someone says it'll look good to a college; my classmates have a ton of different interests, and they got in.
--Your sports sound great; they not only help you to be a more well-rounded person but also will keep you physically fit and mentally strong. Even one sport is okay--I ran cross-country in high school.
--Academics, as you know, are very important. But be sure you learn for the sake of learning and not merely to get a good grade. I've taken some classes by just cramming for tests, and though I got good grades, I now really wish I remembered more about the subject and built a more solid foundation. Also, learning in classes with help you with the SAT. And, write a lot, because college involves many essays and much critical thinking.
--Visit Harvard when you're in high school. Take a tour, talk with students and professors, and see if you enjoy Cambridge and Boston. This is where you'd be spending four years, so it's important to honestly ask yourself if the university and you are a good fit. Do you like big schools? Are you motivated to ask questions and seek out help?
--Be flexible in your future plans. I'd always wanted to go to Princeton, but finally decided on Harvard my senior year of high school. I'm happy here, but I have friends at Princeton who are just as happy. I have friends at state colleges who are taking super crazy honors classes and doing research that blows my mind, and they're happy and fulfilled as well. Just remember: wherever you end up going is where you should be. (At least, that's my motto :D).
--On learning about being a lawyer or doctor: shadow one; Google "a day in the life of a lawyer/doctor;" read books about law or medicine; join a debate team; or volunteer at a hospital. And once again, know that you might change. I entered college thinking "doctorrrrr!!" and have gone on to consider being a novelist, journalist, lawyer, and artist. :P
Most of all, enjoy life! Take time for the small things, and hang out with your friends!! If there's one thing I would have done differently during my teenage years, I would have spent way more time with friends.
Have fun, and good luck! :)
Hi, Leandra!
It's great that you have big dreams, and you will go far if you work hard and believe in yourself!
I'm currently a student at Harvard and just wanted to give you some advice:
-Take extracurriculars that you enjoy! You're right about devotion: that's the secret. Instead of taking a bunch of extracurriculars, you might gain more by delving deeper into a few and getting leadership positions. If you absolutely love playing music, form a band or join an orchestra! If being around people is your thing, volunteer at a day care or shadow a doctor! If you like art, take a pottery class (or just buy some Sculpey--it's great fun). Don't take a particular extracurricular just because someone says it'll look good to a college; my classmates have a ton of different interests, and they got in.
--Your sports sound great; they not only help you to be a more well-rounded person but also will keep you physically fit and mentally strong. Even one sport is okay--I ran cross-country in high school.
--Academics, as you know, are very important. But be sure you learn for the sake of learning and not merely to get a good grade. I've taken some classes by just cramming for tests, and though I got good grades, I now really wish I remembered more about the subject and built a more solid foundation. Also, learning in classes with help you with the SAT. And, write a lot, because college involves many essays and much critical thinking.
--Visit Harvard when you're in high school. Take a tour, talk with students and professors, and see if you enjoy Cambridge and Boston. This is where you'd be spending four years, so it's important to honestly ask yourself if the university and you are a good fit. Do you like big schools? Are you motivated to ask questions and seek out help?
--Be flexible in your future plans. I'd always wanted to go to Princeton, but finally decided on Harvard my senior year of high school. I'm happy here, but I have friends at Princeton who are just as happy. I have friends at state colleges who are taking super crazy honors classes and doing research that blows my mind, and they're happy and fulfilled as well. Just remember: wherever you end up going is where you should be. (At least, that's my motto :D).
--On learning about being a lawyer or doctor: shadow one; Google "a day in the life of a lawyer/doctor;" read books about law or medicine; join a debate team; or volunteer at a hospital. And once again, know that you might change. I entered college thinking "doctorrrrr!!" and have gone on to consider being a novelist, journalist, lawyer, and artist. :P
Most of all, enjoy life! Take time for the small things, and hang out with your friends!! If there's one thing I would have done differently during my teenage years, I would have spent way more time with friends.
Have fun, and good luck! :)
Why do religious people think proof of their god lies within a book?
Q. I've Heard Christians and Muslims alike say they have evidence of their god then they show me their book. If that's the case then Harry Potter is real and Hogwarts school of wizardry exists in England, How can simply a book saying he exists be evidence?
Answer
If the Bible were a mere book you'd have a point. But it's far from that. Some thoughts ...
We'll begin with Simon Greenleaf, a law professor at Harvard and one of the founders of Harvard Law School. He authored a 3-volume work called Treatise on the Law of Evidence. It's still the definitive reference in the classroom and courtroom 160 years after its publication. Greenleaf used this to examine the testimonies of the four Gospel writers and judged them to be truthful and accurate beyond a reasonable doubt. So if you were to bring all your evidence of the Bible being just a book into a court of law and went up against Greenleaf's evidence, you'd lose hands down. Greenleaf was an atheist turned evangelist. His findings are detailed in his work: Testimony of the Evangelists which is available online for your study.
Then there's Bible prophecy. It's how God authenticates Himself. There are over 135 historically verified, fulfilled prophecies in the first 35 verses of Daniel chapter 11 alone. God called King Cyrus of Persia by name in Isaiah 44:24-45:6 as His agent for freeing the Israelites from Babylon 150 years before the event. Daniel 9:25 prophesied Jesus' entry into Jerusalem on what would be the first Palm Sunday, 483 years to the day after the decree to rebuild Jerusalem was given by King Artaxerxes Longimanus of Persia. The decree was given in 445BC. The prophecy was given in 535BC, 90 years earlier. Alexander the Great refused to invade jerusalem after the Temple High Priest showed him in the book of Isaiah the very dream he recently had that was written hundreds of years before. You just can't make this stuff up.
Or just take a handful of Old Testament prophecies concerning the first coming of Jesus (there are over 300 of them and all were a matter of public record at least 150 years before His birth), and apply any legitimate standard you want: forensic logic, statistical analysis, rules of evidence, you name it.
Even a person of modest intellect will quickly be persuaded. God exists, He is Who He says He is, and He has done all that He claims to have done. No blind faith is required, no rush of emotion, no hocus-pocus; just cold hard logic. In fact it takes a whole lot more blind faith and a stubborn willingness to believe in spite of the facts, to accept evolution as your explanation for the beginning of life.
Prophecy is the way God validates His word. No other so-called holy writings offer this proof. Only God has consistently told His people what He was going to do and then did it to prove Himself to them.
Once you see that His track record for fulfilling prophecy is without error or blemish, youâll know beyond all shadow of doubt that you can trust Him too. Trust Him to save you from the penalty due you for your sins; trust Him to return like He promised to take you to be with Him forever, and trust Him to guide you through the remainder of your uncertain and undefined life on earth in the meantime.
And how about the work of mathematician Dr. Ivan Panin who compiled over 50,000 pages of notes showing the intricate numerical patterns present in every book of the Bible. Neither the Hebrew language of the Old Testament nor the Greek language of the New Testament use numbers. Numerical values are given to letters of the their respective alphabets. By substituting numbers for the letters in the Bible, Panin discovered numerical patterns in veer word, sentence, and paragraph in the Bible. Mathematicians at Harvard were unable to duplicate what Panin found. Even the science faculty using modern computers couldn't do this. The conclusion is simple. This book in not of earthly origins.
If the Bible were a mere book you'd have a point. But it's far from that. Some thoughts ...
We'll begin with Simon Greenleaf, a law professor at Harvard and one of the founders of Harvard Law School. He authored a 3-volume work called Treatise on the Law of Evidence. It's still the definitive reference in the classroom and courtroom 160 years after its publication. Greenleaf used this to examine the testimonies of the four Gospel writers and judged them to be truthful and accurate beyond a reasonable doubt. So if you were to bring all your evidence of the Bible being just a book into a court of law and went up against Greenleaf's evidence, you'd lose hands down. Greenleaf was an atheist turned evangelist. His findings are detailed in his work: Testimony of the Evangelists which is available online for your study.
Then there's Bible prophecy. It's how God authenticates Himself. There are over 135 historically verified, fulfilled prophecies in the first 35 verses of Daniel chapter 11 alone. God called King Cyrus of Persia by name in Isaiah 44:24-45:6 as His agent for freeing the Israelites from Babylon 150 years before the event. Daniel 9:25 prophesied Jesus' entry into Jerusalem on what would be the first Palm Sunday, 483 years to the day after the decree to rebuild Jerusalem was given by King Artaxerxes Longimanus of Persia. The decree was given in 445BC. The prophecy was given in 535BC, 90 years earlier. Alexander the Great refused to invade jerusalem after the Temple High Priest showed him in the book of Isaiah the very dream he recently had that was written hundreds of years before. You just can't make this stuff up.
Or just take a handful of Old Testament prophecies concerning the first coming of Jesus (there are over 300 of them and all were a matter of public record at least 150 years before His birth), and apply any legitimate standard you want: forensic logic, statistical analysis, rules of evidence, you name it.
Even a person of modest intellect will quickly be persuaded. God exists, He is Who He says He is, and He has done all that He claims to have done. No blind faith is required, no rush of emotion, no hocus-pocus; just cold hard logic. In fact it takes a whole lot more blind faith and a stubborn willingness to believe in spite of the facts, to accept evolution as your explanation for the beginning of life.
Prophecy is the way God validates His word. No other so-called holy writings offer this proof. Only God has consistently told His people what He was going to do and then did it to prove Himself to them.
Once you see that His track record for fulfilling prophecy is without error or blemish, youâll know beyond all shadow of doubt that you can trust Him too. Trust Him to save you from the penalty due you for your sins; trust Him to return like He promised to take you to be with Him forever, and trust Him to guide you through the remainder of your uncertain and undefined life on earth in the meantime.
And how about the work of mathematician Dr. Ivan Panin who compiled over 50,000 pages of notes showing the intricate numerical patterns present in every book of the Bible. Neither the Hebrew language of the Old Testament nor the Greek language of the New Testament use numbers. Numerical values are given to letters of the their respective alphabets. By substituting numbers for the letters in the Bible, Panin discovered numerical patterns in veer word, sentence, and paragraph in the Bible. Mathematicians at Harvard were unable to duplicate what Panin found. Even the science faculty using modern computers couldn't do this. The conclusion is simple. This book in not of earthly origins.
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