Hello there!
My name is Jacob Citron. For my high school years, I attended a small, classical liberal arts charter school. It was here that I began to fully embrace my intellectual, academic, and creative abilities. Here, I learned the true value of a well-rounded, liberal arts education, and I grew a true appreciation for these things. This is what eventually drew me to Clemson University's Lyceum Scholars Program. Also at Clemson, I have grown in my abilities as a photographer as well. After completing my undergraduate degree in Economics, I plan to attend Law School, and then enter the field of law.The below is my resume.- Research
- Problem Solving
- Reading & Writing
- Arts & Media
- Electronics & Technology
- Proficient in both Microsoft and Adobe Suites
- Electronics and Technology
- Firearms Training and Shooting Sports
- Music (both listening and playing)
- Photography
- Reading
2023 - Present
Clemson University, Clemson SC
I wanted to continue my liberal arts, classical learning from Golden View into college as well—this is what drew me to Clemson University's Lyceum Scholars Program, which had an acceptance rate of 1.4% in 2023. Most of the courses in this program contribute to a minor in political science.
The Lyceum Scholars Program at Clemson University, operating under the Snow Institute for the Study Of Capitalism, is recognized as one of the most prestigious academic programs in the nation. The Lyceum Program takes a great books approach to studying the moral, economic, and political foundations of a free society.
To learn more about the Lyceum Scholars Program, please click here.
2019 - 2023
Golden View Classical Academy, Golden CO
As I see it, a classical, liberal arts education is an education in things worth knowing, and without it, human life is somewhat incomplete, undeveloped, and unfulfilled. This learning is said to “develop the minds” and “improve the hearts” of the students. It teaches them intellectual and moral virtues. The ultimate effect of this kind of learning on the society is to perpetuate the “inestimable blessings” of “civil and religious liberty” and “intellectual piety”. “A disciplined, informed, robust understanding of reality is the proper state or condition of the human mind. The point is to lead rich human lives and humans naturally desire the good, they naturally desire the true, and they naturally desire the beautiful.”
(Hillsdale College Barney Charter School Initiative Curriculum) (Golden View Classical Academy School Profile)2020 - 2023
University of Colorado Boulder & Western Colorado University
January 2024 - Present
Clemson Athletic Communications manages communications media for the Clemson Tigers. I currently serve as a photographer, responsible for photographic coverage of the various Clemson Tigers Athletics Programs.
September 2023 - November 2023
The Tiger is the official newspaper of record at Clemson University. I have contributed sports photographs in coverage of the Clemson Tigers.
March 2020 - May 2023
As Head of Media, I started and ran media coverage of the Golden View Sentinels in their various athletics programs. Over my years at Golden View, I videographed and created season highlight videos for the basketball team and photographed the majority of Golden View’s sports.
May 2020, 2021, 2022
December 2018 - April 2019
Summer 2019
Senior Thesis, Golden View Classical Academy
In this thesis, I explore liberty as a requirement for living well. As Aristotle argued, happiness is the end at which all things aim, and the way to pursue happiness is to strive for virtue, which can only be achieved voluntarily, not through coercion. This brings us to the topic of tyranny and its unfortunate rise in America today. I will show how this complicates the pursuit of happiness and therefore the ability to live well. I will then present an alternative: a return to America’s founding principles—and will show why they work and how they are better. In order to live well, men must pursue happiness, and to do this, strive to be virtuous, and to do this, be in a state of liberty. In other words: in order to live well, man must be free.
To read my thesis, please click here.
High School, Senior Year, First Semester
Golden View Classical Academy, Golden CO
Mr. Pfafflin nominates Jacob Citron:
"I nominate Jacob Citron as Student of the Quarter. Coming out of a Senior Thesis meeting with Jacob characterized by vibrant, passionate discussion about morality and government's role in enforcing it, I remarked to myself, "This man is on a relentless pursuit of Truth, and he will not rest until he finds it." As I introduced challenges to his thesis that were the equivalent of intellectual hand grenades, I watched his face becoming increasingly more contorted as it reflected the mental gymnastics occurring in his mind, grappling with ideas that called into question the very premise of his thesis.Jacob embraces the seriousness of deliberation.As exemplified not only in his thesis work, but in my experience with him throughout the semester in class, he is not one who is just going through the motions to check an academic box for completion. For ideas he cares about, he is personally taking on the burden of proving, through vigorous testing, the veracity of the very worldview defining who he is. As far as I can tell, defending his preconceived personal worldview is not his highest priority. Consuming diverse viewpoints that offer alternative ways of understanding reality, then synthesizing them into some sense of the world that may or may not resemble what he started with - is. In other words, he is open to changing his mind. If one bothers to look beyond his combative relational style when his views are challenged, one understands that he is daring someone to prove him wrong. If one succeeds, he will acknowledge that he was bested in the fight. To me, this is the quintessence of the quest students and faculty should be on together anywhere Truth is being pursued with honesty. This is personal integrity; the willingness to be wrong. The quest for Jacob is omnipresent, both inside the classroom walls and beyond the doors of the school. Well done, Jacob."2019 - 2023
Golden View Classical Academy, Golden CO
2023 - Present
Clemson University, Clemson SC
Semester 1 — Dean's List
Semester 2 — Dean's List
