Why I Chose Student Council

Something I have always enjoyed doing is helping people. I love the feeling that it gives me and the thought that I have just helped better someone’s life. Now as a young boy, I was often asked, what are you going to be? I never realized it then, but I have realized it now, my father. He is the reason why I want to do what I want to do, which is to become a doctor. It seems like every week I hear someone, whether it’s at a store or at the YMCA, say you 're the doctor 's son, and I listen to them express their deepest gratitude of my father. As his son, I have never felt prouder of him. He truly cares for his patients as if they were his own family, and I hope that I can become the doctor and the person that he is.
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Something that I have struggled with is essentially what I’m excited for in college: meeting new people. I love meeting people and making friends, but the process of making friends scares me. Nevertheless, I have done multitudes of things to help counteract this problem such as getting a job, volunteering at my local church, and joining student council. Doing those tasks has helped me overcome this obstacle and helped get myself out into the world and learn skills that I need to know for college such as leadership. Joining student council was pivotal in the evolvement of my leadership skills since my leadership skills were truly lacking before I joined student council. But after being a member for three years I have become a true representative of my students. What I figured out was that the key to becoming a great leader and a great representative was by listening. Listening was how I found out what my fellow students wanted and needed to make school more enjoyable for them. Without this skill, I never would have known what homecoming theme my students wanted and issues that students had that needed to be addressed by the school administration. The skills I have learned in student council were also key in …show more content…
I always tried to be very personable with people and help them in anyway possible. However, my greatest strength is to a certain extent my greatest fault. I see it is my moral obligation to help and care for people, but sometimes I care for people a little too much and people take advantage of me, but I don’t blame the folks for doing it. I figured out that I portrayed myself as the wrong type of help. Now, I am more invested in as just the emotional support of people and not the monetary support. I figured, I am going to college, and I need some money to pay for gas. Nevertheless, I still hope to become a doctor even with the rising college and medical school tuitions. My first step in achieving that goal is attending the University of Nebraska-Lincoln majoring in biology. To achieve this goal, I will study constantly to earn great grades since medical school is very competitive to get into. Once I graduate with a bachelor 's in biology, I will apply to medical schools in the Midwest region. After I get accepted to a medical school, I have to go through the medical school’s rigorous four-year program, go through a four-year residency program, and then possibly a fellowship program depending on what type of doctor I want to become. I know this will take years of hard work and dedication in accomplishing my goal of becoming a doctor,