Personal Statement Essay

I have always found enjoyment in discovering obscure and unusual facts about the body, then going onto tell others about my discovery. For this reason, biology has always had a magnetic effect on me. I find it incredible how life is in essence just a combination of molecules which then come together to create another more complex molecule, and so on, eventually leading to an organism as complex as the human body. Studying biology to A2-Level, I have been introduced to biological processes which…

I chose the Sociology degree programme because it is a subject I have found to completely and utterly grab my attention as well as interest me. Sociology naturally draws me to learning more and sharing my knowledge with others. Studying Sociology will give me a number of transferable skills I plan to gain, examples being environmental awareness, communication, and critical evaluation which will help me later in my career. Recognizing how environmental awareness influences other people either at…

My childhood began when my mom, sister, and I were homeless for two weeks, and we lived in a hotel for two months. On her last leg of unemployment my mother applied for welfare, in order to sustain a home to live in. She then graduated from UEI and got a job the very next day after. She got an internship that paid twelve plus dollars an hour and when the time came, she got off of welfare and was provided with child and medical care. However, right after, the very next week, my dad went to jail.…

My intended major at the moment is Kinesiology- Athletic Training with the possibility of going to Graduate School and even medical school. I enjoy the on field aspect of athletic training as well as you connections you make with the patients, but in order to gain the most knowledge can those higher level educations programs are necessary. I met Mr. Winterstein awhile back and told him may aspiration of being an Athletic Trainer for the Badgers and he said if I really want it, it’s up to me to…

There are three main influences that have led me to a career in medicine: shadowing, the excitement of science, and the influence of my mother. The first influence came when I was in high school. I was fortunate to participate in the Gold Seal Program of Choice in the field of Medicine. In the program I shadowed nurses, biomedical engineers, ophthalmologists and surgeons. What most caught my attention was being in a surgery setting. I remember standing at the head of the operating table where…

My whole life I grew up playing AAU(Amateur Athletic Union) basketball for a non-profit amateur sports organization based in the United States. A multi-sport organization, the AAU is dedicated exclusively to the promotion and development of amateur sports and physical fitness programs. Ever since I watched my sister run up and down the court and put the ball in the hoop every Saturday and show her passion of loving the game, I knew that basketball was for me. I started playing on an actual team…

Ever since I began my career in the medical device industry, my colleagues and I have always faced these four questions: Will this treatment work? How will it be adopted by physicians and patients? How much does it really cost? Will insurance cover it? I have devoted my professional life to developing and marketing new healthcare technologies, helping to make a positive impact on literally millions of patients’ lives. When I first entered the industry, the path to answering these four…

It was just another day in the pediatric ward -- the second-year postgraduate student and I were scurrying around the 80-year-old building, monitoring patients. I felt some fleshy thing under my foot. Was it the rat that we saw earlier? I looked down to investigate. It turned out to be the leg of a patient 's relative, sleeping on the floor next to a child with meningitis. I apologized her as I squeezed my leg between her and our typhoid patient, who lay on a mat next to her, in the overcrowded…

I have chosen to pursue a career as a nurse because I want to make more of an impact in people 's lives. I have always had an interest in health and it wasn 't until I graduated college and work as Medical Secretary for the Operating Room at Montefiore New Rochelle that I realized I wanted to make a career out of nursing. My previous job was an unit secretary that mainly consisted of interacting with patients families, discharging patients off the unit, and pharmacy runs for the nurses. However…

Pharmacy is a branch of health-care system which deals with the medicines, its dosage, drug delivery system, its effects on human body, and drug interactions. Pharmacy is a combination of chemical science and health science which ensures the effective and safe use of the medications. Since my childhood, my curiosity was developed in the field of medicinal science, which developed a keen interest to know mechanism of drugs on human body. During the course of my previous education, I was…