College Admissions Essay: Integrating Art With Medicine

I have dabbled with art ever since I was a toddler. I would draw anywhere I went: school, home, and even at church. It started out as a hobby, but soon, I immersed myself into the world of art by integrating art with medicine.
I have always found medical dramas to be particularly intriguing. Developing into this interest, I started writing my own medical journal, where I took notes from a book called Gray’s Anatomy and from the medical dramas I watched. I would draw the diagrams of body parts and medical equipment I saw. I would even look up the procedures that doctors performed to make sure they were doing them correctly. Through this activity, I learned that my true passion lies in medical field and that I someday want to be a pathologist, not an artist.
Before finding my true passion, I pictured myself as a “starving artist,” because there simply was no other field that I seemed to fit in, and the stereotype of artists is that they are poor. Instead of exploring into other fields, I felt obligated to stick with art, because I had been doing art for so long. At first, it did not seem like a bad choice. But eventually, I lost passion and motivation to hold my …show more content…
However, feeling rather pensive one day, I arbitrarily searched up “art and health.” Most of the results were irrelevant but one particularly caught my attention: Leonardo Da Vinci’s body diagram. It stimulated me to draw similar diagrams, which later led me to simply drawing human body parts. Relatively disinteresting at first, I soon found myself actually enjoying drawing bones and learning about the human body. It was during this time, I even started to create my own medical journal. Maybe my new found determination was due to the long hiatus or maybe I unknowingly had the latent desire to do art again, but regardless of the reason, I found that I could not help but indulge myself into the