In my high school experience, I have been blessed with many great teachers and advisors who have helped me develop academically. However, I learned at COSMOS, a science summer program at UC Davis, that learning goes beyond lectures in a classroom. At Davis, I experienced a college learning environment vastly different from high school. Every lecture day, I had a lab after lecture that applied concepts to real life. In the corresponding labs for Organic Chemistry, for instance, I made biofuel from newspaper and synthesized Benzodiazepine to kill krill. Although I would not like to kill krill for a living, the applicability of chemistry to the modern world through drug discovery and biofuel further incited my interest in chemistry. I yearned
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The program served as a spark that piqued my interest in the sciences, but more importantly introduced me to the immense power science has to alter the progression of human life. I want to be part of that progression; I want to write exciting lab reports on scientific breakthroughs that directly help people. Much like COSMOS, established undergraduate research allows me to apply concepts I learn in class to the real world. Such research opportunities greatly enhance my interest in and my knowledge of curricular ideas, which I believe are essential to my future success. Johns Hopkins has a well established undergraduate research emphasis, as 70 percent of undergraduates participate in it. The sheer number of undergraduates at Johns Hopkins that pursue research emphasizes your institution’s willingness to help future undergraduates like me gain deeper understanding of concepts while also instilling a sense of practicality in learning material. It is not only the opportunity to learn from research that appeals to me, but also how meaningful the research is. A senior undergraduate student can conduct research that provides groundbreaking therapy to cure neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's Disease, as Preston Ge ’17 has done, which has direct impact on thousands of lives. Research that helps people at this scale attests to not only how plentiful your opportunities are,
The program served as a spark that piqued my interest in the sciences, but more importantly introduced me to the immense power science has to alter the progression of human life. I want to be part of that progression; I want to write exciting lab reports on scientific breakthroughs that directly help people. Much like COSMOS, established undergraduate research allows me to apply concepts I learn in class to the real world. Such research opportunities greatly enhance my interest in and my knowledge of curricular ideas, which I believe are essential to my future success. Johns Hopkins has a well established undergraduate research emphasis, as 70 percent of undergraduates participate in it. The sheer number of undergraduates at Johns Hopkins that pursue research emphasizes your institution’s willingness to help future undergraduates like me gain deeper understanding of concepts while also instilling a sense of practicality in learning material. It is not only the opportunity to learn from research that appeals to me, but also how meaningful the research is. A senior undergraduate student can conduct research that provides groundbreaking therapy to cure neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's Disease, as Preston Ge ’17 has done, which has direct impact on thousands of lives. Research that helps people at this scale attests to not only how plentiful your opportunities are,