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 Amy
August likes
high standards. She set a school record of 9.9 on the parallel
bars with the varsity gymnastics team. She entered UIC as one
of 117 first-year GPPA scholars and joined the Honors College.
She also received one of two $20,000 Wal-Mart Competitive Edge
Scholarships awarded at UIC last year. August plans to make
bioengineering her major and English her minor, though the
two are more like her parallel bars of the mind.
"Since I have been here I realized I would not have been happier anywhere else. I love it here. You just meet different people all the time." -Amy August August's plate may seem full, but she knows better. She calls university life "relaxed" compared to her life at St. Charles High School, where she joined gymnastics, Worldwide Youth in Science and Engineering, the National Honor Society, student council, peer leadership, and Natural Helpers. Her experience with Natural Helpers, which focused on conflict resolution and peer leadership, exposed August to students of diverse ethnic and family backgrounds and swayed her mind toward UIC. August has an appetite for more activities. She hopes to publish her writing in UIC's Other Voices, a national journal. She would like to become involved with the Student Athletic Advisory Council. And, she says, "I am really excited to start a new school year." It all springs from a love of learning with no regard for risk. "Ignorance is bliss," she concedes in earnest, "and though it is, I would never trade my education for anything. Life is wonderful because of the extremity of experience, rather than the intensity of happiness. You only have a short amount of time on this earth. You should make the most of it."  |
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