Giving What I've Been Given by Joshua

Giving What I've Been Given by Joshua - June 2023 Scholarship Essay

Joshua Ramgeet
Phone: (843)-822-6268 | Email: Ramgeet.j@northeastern.edu | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-ramgeet

Giving What I’ve Been Given

One hundred billion dollars, 14 cars, and a golden toilet. That is not the situation I expect myself to be in 10 years from now, nor is it how I’d want to be spending.
I know it’s a very commercialized agenda to flaunt off your shiny items or flex the amount of money you have, but my goals in the future reside more with other people than it does with myself. Of course getting to a place where I’ll be able to reach people on such a large scale will take time and work toward becoming the person I wish to, but I’ve had so much help to getting where I am thanks to all the programs I’ve been a part of, people I’ve met, and all the behind the scenes organizations and structures pushing me ahead in my career and life.
That’s the kind of change I want to inflict on people, and 10 years from now, I’ll have worked in the marketing field, potentially 1-2 more fields to gain insight, connections, and business knowledge that I’d use in my own entrepreneurial endeavors to accumulate resources to do so. I can’t tell you what the business will center around, but I hope for it to be something innovative, whether that be a product or service, just something that changes the game a little bit. I’ll have investments in the stock market, a Roth IRA, investment properties, start-ups, but most importantly into investments that don’t give back monetarily, people.
Equipped with the college track I’m blessed to be going through at Northestern, clubs and internships stemming from it, and the programs I’ve mentioned earlier, I’ll be more than capable of getting the resources I need to give back like education, a network. I actually have a list of programs I want to come back to in the future, BAM, Thrive Scholars, TVP, and BUILD, to name a few that I want to give as much as I can to. Maybe I’ll be a guest judge at a competition, fund a trip, provide internships for the young people, or maybe talk. Those are just short term goals though, because one big takeaway that I got from being a part of all the organizations is that our education system is lacking.
I was learning taxes, creating my own business, how to deal with trauma or conflict, how to prepare for building a resume, and advocate for my career outside of school. There’s millions of things I can think of that we could be learning and no disrespect to Pythagoras, but I will never use his theorem. And that isn’t to say that a lot of the education is necessary with teaching fundamentals and the act of struggling in pursuit of knowledge, but with the growing world of technology and especially AI, change is needed.
So alongside my affiliation with the programs 10 years later, I will have begun my road to education reform. I’ve been a part of a youth lead advisory board so I’m well aware of the potential and already present value children have to improve our everyday, and I would love to work with them, giving them a platform, a voice, and an opportunity.
Once more since I keep saying this, that’s what I’ve been given, and I only hope to be on track to or actively serve people with inspiration, belief, and a chance to do more than what they could have ever imagined. Even if that is owning a golden toilet.