Johns Hopkins University was founded in 1876 on a spirit of exploration and discovery. As a result, students can pursue a multi-dimensional undergraduate experience both in and outside of the classroom. Given the opportunities at Hopkins, please discuss your current interests—academic or extracurricular pursuits, personal passions, summer experiences, etc.—and how you will build upon them here.(300-500 words)

	While it's easy to cast off four years as “mutli-dimensional”, it seems to be harder to gather all the events and goals within those dimensions under one theme. My goal at Johns Hopkins is to be able to say that during my four years in college, everything I did augmented my communicative skills. For me, communication is integral to almost every subject that I've pursued up to this point; it's also vital for the fields I plan to continue studying. Facets of each of those subjects, in turn, contribute to my gradual improvements in communication. This self-perpetuating cycle, in some form or another, is what I have attributed most of my achievements in high school to and what I intend to maintain through college. For example, music has been and will continue to be an important part of my life; at Johns Hopkins, there is an utmost proximity with the Peabody Conservatory. Even if I was not to become a conservatory-trained musician, I would still maintain proximity to an intense musical environment and have exposure to musical experiences there. That closeness to world-class musicians would undoubtedly serve as a stimulus towards my own musical growth. Additionally, any musician, conservatory-trained or otherwise, needs to serve as both a performer and entrepreneur – a performer peddles oneself. In order to do so effectively, not only is musical talent required, but also oratorical talent. The need to improve both of these aspects, then, is mandatory, if not necessarily impossible due to their connection. Speaking of oratorical skills, the need to nourish those abilities is required by another field I am interested in – English. College, being the wonderful system it is, would allow me to concentrate on studies in creative writing, literature studies, and a plethora of other topics concerning our language which I never had the time for in high school besides forays into poetry. Learning to use language effectively is one matter, but maintaining a love of it is another thing entirely and has certainly added a certain level of panache to my daily vocabulary – including the usage of cool words like panache, among others. Music and English are what I consider to be my two artistic passions; the ability to implement both in my daily life thanks to my college experience would certainly permit me to talk about what I play, what I read and write, and what I love – though all things considered, the third item on that list is more a summation of the first two. If a humanities major from Johns Hopkins can become the CEO of IBM, then what does that say about the potential of all graduates and students? It's my hope that I can use Johns Hopkins's “multi-dimensional” experience in my own (thematically unified) fashion to achieve success.