Essay 1: Biographical Essay (800-word limit)
Prompt: We are interested in learning more about you and the context in which you have grown up, formed your aspirations, and accomplished your academic successes. Please describe the factors and challenges that have most shaped your personal life and aspirations. How have these factors helped you to grow?
When I was little, I would wake up to the slight smell of tobacco. I did not know what it was back then. I even thought it was just the natural smell of my mom. I wondered why she coughed constantly, so I asked my sister, “Is mommy sick?” She didn’t answer me. Instead, she shouted angrily at my mom, “Why are you always smoking?” But she silently picked up a cigarette and walked away. I learned …show more content…
After this six-month internship, I used the knowledge to do outreach and present in the Berkeley community and Berkeley High classrooms. I designed workshops to help students understand tobacco and its negative health impacts. I strengthened important skills such as working with diverse populations, communication, and public speaking. It was no small feed for me because I was an English Language Learner who had been in the U.S. for only a few months. I was shy and quiet; I didn’t know how to treat peers in Berkeley High as students. But I felt fulfilled when helping others to change the way they live. Through outreach and community health events, I learned that a surprising number of my peers know nothing about the problems with tobacco. This fact highlighted the importance of my work. I urged my facilitator to conduct more workshops and presentations for Berkeley High students so that we could prevent a lot of students from smoking and save their lives. The work I do can improve a family’s health condition, and I am also helping the environment and even the economy of the
Prompt: We are interested in learning more about you and the context in which you have grown up, formed your aspirations, and accomplished your academic successes. Please describe the factors and challenges that have most shaped your personal life and aspirations. How have these factors helped you to grow?
When I was little, I would wake up to the slight smell of tobacco. I did not know what it was back then. I even thought it was just the natural smell of my mom. I wondered why she coughed constantly, so I asked my sister, “Is mommy sick?” She didn’t answer me. Instead, she shouted angrily at my mom, “Why are you always smoking?” But she silently picked up a cigarette and walked away. I learned …show more content…
After this six-month internship, I used the knowledge to do outreach and present in the Berkeley community and Berkeley High classrooms. I designed workshops to help students understand tobacco and its negative health impacts. I strengthened important skills such as working with diverse populations, communication, and public speaking. It was no small feed for me because I was an English Language Learner who had been in the U.S. for only a few months. I was shy and quiet; I didn’t know how to treat peers in Berkeley High as students. But I felt fulfilled when helping others to change the way they live. Through outreach and community health events, I learned that a surprising number of my peers know nothing about the problems with tobacco. This fact highlighted the importance of my work. I urged my facilitator to conduct more workshops and presentations for Berkeley High students so that we could prevent a lot of students from smoking and save their lives. The work I do can improve a family’s health condition, and I am also helping the environment and even the economy of the