Georgia by Suzanna

Georgia by Suzanna - February 2016 Scholarship Essay

Being named in the top 100 of the most influential people in multiple famous publications including The Atlantic and Time Magazine, Albert Einstein is surprisingly well known in the modern world. Typically, a scientist or philosopher, no matter what it is they invent or discover, is only remembered by those who study history or science. It is rare that he is so widely known by people of all ages and intelligences, and that is why he is so fascinating to me.
Nobel Prize winner, inventor of the Theory of Relativity, scientist and physicist, Einstein is an incredibly accomplished person. I would like to sit down and have dinner with Albert Einstein; not to bombard him with hundreds of petty little questions, but to simply be in his presence. Just to be in the same room as a person like that, to see them as a person rather than an image in your high school textbook.
One of the things that I love most about Einstein is that he was an avid vegetarian near the end of his life. He once said, “I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.” This has always rang true with me as well; and he has been one of the people who inspired me on my path to vegetarianism. I would like to spend the dinner asking him not about the theory of relativity, or his discovery that gravity is not a force but a curvature, but about vegetarianism. I would ask him what made him finally decide to switch to that diet, and why he waited so late into his life to do so. I would tell him about the modern world, and how animals are treated in factories. I would explain to him the modern reasons for going vegetarian, and ask him for advice on solutions for the animal cruelty in the world today.