I want to wake up in the city that never sleeps.

From a young age I have spent all of my

breaks from school in Manhattan, seeing shows on and off Broadway, exploring enticing
museums, and traipsing about the concrete jungle. I identify as a city girl even though I was
raised in the suburbs of Rockland county. But then again, you identify with what you consider to
be home, right? My house is on a secluded suburban corner, but my home is among the
avenues and the fire escapes. More specifically, it is among the avenues and the fire escapes
of the village.
As an alumna of NYU, my mother has taken me on many a trip to her favorite locales
from her college days - La Lanterna di Vittorio and Mamouns Falafel on Macdougal Street,
Johns Pizzeria on Bleecker Street. I have spent hours among the stacks at Strand bookstore
and even more hours in Washington Square Park. She has shown me the ins and outs of the
village that have made it my favorite part of Manhattan.
I want to spend college among these ins and outs. I want to be among the villages
electric lights and electric vitality. There is an enormous gravitational force, a GMm/r^2, that
pulls me towards the village. The mass of the village, M, is huge. It is massive with subway
lines, concrete sidewalks, and diverse culture. It is massive with concrete foundations and
educational foundations. It is massive with vast history and an incalculable future. My
cosmically inconsequential mass can be part of something greater there. In a world that is
nothing but particles moving at unimaginable speed, the village will allow me to be more than
just another entity adding to the universes entropy. I will no longer be just occupying volume.
My matter can matter.
This is not just true of the village, but of NYU. NYU provides the perfect environment for
exploration and learning that I so crave. I want to major in a science field, though I am not yet
entirely sure of the specifics. Whether I decide to major in biochemistry, biology, chemistry,
engineering, neural science, or physics I still want to take classes in Greek Drama and
Renaissance Art and the Music of Bach. I know I want to go to medical school, but I firmly
believe that my undergraduate experience should be about intellectual inquiry. With the
expansive liberal arts environment it provides, there is no place better to inquire intellectually
than NYU.
Whatever field of science I do decide to pursue, the one thing I am certain of is that I
want to pursue it at NYU - beautiful, electric, magical NYU.