PLME Personal Statement

As the illustrious John Locke once stated, the human mind at birth is a tabula rasa upon which experience imprints knowledge. It was not until a point in my late childhood that I learned that my grandmother had been suffering from Rheumatoid Arthritis ever since I was a little girl. On one particular morning, my grandmother was not able to get up from her bedside. Her joints had become unprecedentedly inflamed, causing her extraordinary pain. It seemed as if she had been temporarily paralyzed as nothing but a tear came down her cheek. It hurt me to see her suffering and iit killed me that I could not do anything to make her pain disappear. After that experience, I remember going to her and saying that I was going to become a doctor to make her and others feel better. At the time, I clearly did not yet understand that the doctors had tried so many different forms of medication and that just nothing had helped. Evenso, now that I am much older and much more knowledgeable of the disease, I still continue to have the desire to help those who are in pain in some shape, way, or form. …show more content…
None, however, have made as big an impact on my life as PLME has. The most memorable experience from my multiple visits to Brown was in the eighth grade when I was one of the few students selected to attend the university's “Day of Academic Discovery and Exploration” on their 250th anniversary. On this day, I was exposed to a few science classes that I enjoyed very much. The most impacting class was one with Dr. Bryant Faria who showed me where in the elbows and knees doctors tests that your spinal cord is receiving the impulses sent via sensory neurons so your body reacts accordingly in given situations. Safe to say, this was the experience that further deepened my passion for the study of human