The science of forensic medicine.
Now, you may be thinking, that’s a stretch. Why would a high schooler be interested in some ambiguous branch of medicine based on the study of crime? It seems farfetched that a young kid would want to learn about that.
Despite my mother’s abomination towards anything related to forensics, because of-you know-the study of crime, guns, horrific injuries, and dead people is a little shocking, I was drawn towards it after lazily reading Wikipedia articles about it. Being an inquisitive and analytical person, my eyes had lit up reading those internet pages and forensics had caught my attention. Wanting to learn more, I asked my health science teacher about a possible way for me to pursue my interest through my school’s medical club, HOSA. It was an unexpected coincidence when she told me a competitive event was offered in forensic science; I immediately grabbed the opportunity and over the course of many months, studied the ins and outs of my forensics textbook in preparation for the competition. …show more content…
As I prepared for the upcoming exams for my competition, I tried to embody the mindset of a forensic investigator when reading about crimes and analyzing them, I would try and look at a scene and formulate my own idea of what occurred and how the crime unfolded. I had become an expert in identifying certain kinds of blood spray patterns, types of gunshot wounds, different kinds of blunt trauma and all sorts of other violent cases in crime. The nature of the work fitted me perfectly, my mental capability rational thinking was put to the test. I truly enjoyed figuring out the concepts presented to me, even though the crimes I was dealing with wasn’t enjoyable in the
Now, you may be thinking, that’s a stretch. Why would a high schooler be interested in some ambiguous branch of medicine based on the study of crime? It seems farfetched that a young kid would want to learn about that.
Despite my mother’s abomination towards anything related to forensics, because of-you know-the study of crime, guns, horrific injuries, and dead people is a little shocking, I was drawn towards it after lazily reading Wikipedia articles about it. Being an inquisitive and analytical person, my eyes had lit up reading those internet pages and forensics had caught my attention. Wanting to learn more, I asked my health science teacher about a possible way for me to pursue my interest through my school’s medical club, HOSA. It was an unexpected coincidence when she told me a competitive event was offered in forensic science; I immediately grabbed the opportunity and over the course of many months, studied the ins and outs of my forensics textbook in preparation for the competition. …show more content…
As I prepared for the upcoming exams for my competition, I tried to embody the mindset of a forensic investigator when reading about crimes and analyzing them, I would try and look at a scene and formulate my own idea of what occurred and how the crime unfolded. I had become an expert in identifying certain kinds of blood spray patterns, types of gunshot wounds, different kinds of blunt trauma and all sorts of other violent cases in crime. The nature of the work fitted me perfectly, my mental capability rational thinking was put to the test. I truly enjoyed figuring out the concepts presented to me, even though the crimes I was dealing with wasn’t enjoyable in the