Pure LoveEven as I stress over homework and college apps and wish for this semester to just be over already, every 3:35pm bell serves to sadly remind me that my days at Emery High School are dwindling. For a teenager, four years is a long time, and the four yearsspent in high school are the critical transition from adolescence to adulthood. Throughthe community and experiences it creates, Emery has the opportunity to shape itsstudents in a unique and profound way.When I spend four years somewhere, especially four glorious and enjoyable years, Iam compelled to consider my legacy and ask myself the question “What have I done forthe betterment of my community?” It is always my hope that the answer is long-winded,and I believe that in a few short months when I must account to myself the answer will be extended. At Emery, I have worked from the outset to engage myself in its amazingcommunity, even as I only came to fully understand and internalize its values withgreater maturity. It is impossible to convey those values in text. When forced to do so,the only possible way I see to express them is pure, unabated, love of the most awesomesort.That love is not merely a part of the Emery Difference, but it defines theexperiences that comprise the difference. Ma’amad, the trips, the inter-graderelationships, the student-faculty-administration relationships, Winterim, the opencommunity, all exist due to the love of those who come here everyday. No matter how many tests I have on a given day, I always wake up with excitement to return to Emery to participate in the community that has defined me and done everything for me. Iconsider it my duty to give back this community, and as a part of that I would love theopportunity to attend Big Bend.I learned in Boy Scouts to always leave a place in better condition than when youarrived. Big Bend is important to me because of the chance it gives me to spend moretime with Emery’s amazing freshmen. This group is particularly extraordinary to me, because I have had the opportunity to watch them transition into Emery from the timeof their first Shabbaton. Attending that Shabbaton and becoming acquainted with all of

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