Tell us about your most meaningful community service experience. (not related to patient care if none, please write none) Using my strengths to help my community, I volunteered to tutor students preparing to take their General Education Degree Exam. On the first day, I was greeted by a friendly receptionist and introduced to my only coworker, who was trying to teach over 20 students. Shocked by the lack of tutors, I wanted to help as many students as possible, so I knew I would need to take a different approach than my coworker. While he would give great lectures, I decided a more individualized approach would help me identify my students’ abilities and strengthen their weaknesses. I realized the common unaddressed weakness was that many of
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Attending CU Boulder, I became fascinated with leading scientific discovery through research and helping to progress the understanding of my research topic. While it was rewarding to be a part of research, designing, funding and leading my honor’s thesis project illustrated the challenges and rewards of truly leading research. In my research field of Cannabis genomics, I learned to overcome the challenges of working with a living research subject and to navigate the laws surround researching this controversial plant. My project focuses on differential mRNA expression due to a colloidal silver treatment that can applied to “transform” female flowers into male flowers, which heavily relies on the developing field of RNA sequencing and analysis. While the topic of my research adds to my fascination, learning to hypothesize an idea, design an experiment to test my hypothesis and conclude a significant result makes this experience most meaningful. I hope to apply the ability to analyze this data to a vast range of projects during my MD/PhD to further medicine by developing treatments or better understanding a …show more content…
With being the first generation to attend college or from a low income family a requirement to participate in Upward Bound, I assumed that these students came from similar backgrounds and cultures. Although as I progressed throughout the summer, the diverse cultures of my students became more apparent. While most students came from the same neighborhood and identified as African-Americans, it was difficult to view two students as having come from the same culture. Their family situations, work experiences and others factors provided each student a unique perspective and opinions that I encouraged them to share during our class. I began to see the varying ambitions of my students that usually reflected their personal lives they would share. After learning some students never planned to attend college and some students were determined to get into their school of choice, I began understanding why students did not feel inclined to prepare for the ACT and others would ask for more difficult work. By sharing an analogy of getting fast food to learning, I changed many of my students’ opinions on education since this analogy was able to resonate with each student. Throughout this summer, I became a more empathetic person and bonded with this diverse group of students while teaching
Attending CU Boulder, I became fascinated with leading scientific discovery through research and helping to progress the understanding of my research topic. While it was rewarding to be a part of research, designing, funding and leading my honor’s thesis project illustrated the challenges and rewards of truly leading research. In my research field of Cannabis genomics, I learned to overcome the challenges of working with a living research subject and to navigate the laws surround researching this controversial plant. My project focuses on differential mRNA expression due to a colloidal silver treatment that can applied to “transform” female flowers into male flowers, which heavily relies on the developing field of RNA sequencing and analysis. While the topic of my research adds to my fascination, learning to hypothesize an idea, design an experiment to test my hypothesis and conclude a significant result makes this experience most meaningful. I hope to apply the ability to analyze this data to a vast range of projects during my MD/PhD to further medicine by developing treatments or better understanding a …show more content…
With being the first generation to attend college or from a low income family a requirement to participate in Upward Bound, I assumed that these students came from similar backgrounds and cultures. Although as I progressed throughout the summer, the diverse cultures of my students became more apparent. While most students came from the same neighborhood and identified as African-Americans, it was difficult to view two students as having come from the same culture. Their family situations, work experiences and others factors provided each student a unique perspective and opinions that I encouraged them to share during our class. I began to see the varying ambitions of my students that usually reflected their personal lives they would share. After learning some students never planned to attend college and some students were determined to get into their school of choice, I began understanding why students did not feel inclined to prepare for the ACT and others would ask for more difficult work. By sharing an analogy of getting fast food to learning, I changed many of my students’ opinions on education since this analogy was able to resonate with each student. Throughout this summer, I became a more empathetic person and bonded with this diverse group of students while teaching