Nearly three years ago, when I was only fourteen-years old, my youngest brother nearly died. My mother was away from home for the night, and she charged me with watching my younger siblings. I gave them snacks and put on a movie on our little computer in the living room, I remember sitting down a couple feet away at the kitchen table and starting on my homework in our cramped little apartment. My brother, Zion, had started to cry but that wasn’t anything new to me so I ignored him in favor of Algebra.
Usually, if I ignored him for long enough then he’d settle down like all toddlers do.
But he didn’t, he only got louder and louder, wailing in our little apartment until I thought the entire complex could hear him. So I got up to see what …show more content…
I remember watching as nurses started to attend to him, how they calmed him down. How they were the ones who saw to him first, not a doctor, and soothed his pain with medicine. They helped him when my mother, who I thought hung the moon and the stars, was powerless to. Turns out he’d been allergic to the cranberries I’d given him as a snack, a kind nurse had explained.
It was only after I experienced that while ordeal did I realize what I wanted to do it life, help others like Zion.
And as one of the top Ivy League institutions in the world, I believe the University of Pennsylvania is my brightest path to do so. What draws me to University of Pennsylvania are the uses of hands-on clinical practice and mentorship programs. In my future field of work, I’ll be handling the lives of others and a mistake on my end could prove fatal. That being said, it’s key that I recieve realistic training and proper guidance while studying my major.
No matter where I choose to pursue my intended major, Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing, the academics of the course would be the same. Biology doesn’t differ whether I attend Harvard University or Montgomery Community college, knowledge is knowledge. However at University of Pennsylvania I’ll be able to learn the most pratical applications of the knowloedge I’ll
Usually, if I ignored him for long enough then he’d settle down like all toddlers do.
But he didn’t, he only got louder and louder, wailing in our little apartment until I thought the entire complex could hear him. So I got up to see what …show more content…
I remember watching as nurses started to attend to him, how they calmed him down. How they were the ones who saw to him first, not a doctor, and soothed his pain with medicine. They helped him when my mother, who I thought hung the moon and the stars, was powerless to. Turns out he’d been allergic to the cranberries I’d given him as a snack, a kind nurse had explained.
It was only after I experienced that while ordeal did I realize what I wanted to do it life, help others like Zion.
And as one of the top Ivy League institutions in the world, I believe the University of Pennsylvania is my brightest path to do so. What draws me to University of Pennsylvania are the uses of hands-on clinical practice and mentorship programs. In my future field of work, I’ll be handling the lives of others and a mistake on my end could prove fatal. That being said, it’s key that I recieve realistic training and proper guidance while studying my major.
No matter where I choose to pursue my intended major, Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing, the academics of the course would be the same. Biology doesn’t differ whether I attend Harvard University or Montgomery Community college, knowledge is knowledge. However at University of Pennsylvania I’ll be able to learn the most pratical applications of the knowloedge I’ll