College Admissions Essay: Growing Up In A Small Community

Careers in the medical field will allow me to experience a life I never had, but always dreamed of. I will finally be able to support my family financially without struggling and I will be able to say “I am the first doctor in my family.” That alone is enough to prove to myself that I actually made it.

Rural, northern Alabama is a beautiful place. It is a fantastic area to grow up and it is filled with people who would not hesitate to pull over on Highway 72 to jump start your car. Living here has developed me into the man I am today, instilling characteristics into me that I will forever hold dear and appreciate. My home town has given me all it has to offer, and I will forever be proud to have been raised here. Though I love where I have been raised, it holds restrictions that inhibit my abilities from cultivating to the extent I desire. In honest words, where I reside is not a great place for intelligence to thrive. I attend a public school in a small community of about a thousand people or less where ninety percent of graduating classes tend to stay

I remember waking up that day and that feeling in my stomach, knowing what was about to happen. Growing up I knew about my father's sickness. My family, I recall, was always supportive. No one ever thinks about how one day, everyone you’re around for years, can just vanish. I cherished my friends as I was growing up. I lived there for a majority of my life, up until fourth grade. I remember sitting at a neighbor's house and having the mother come into the room and inform me that I need to be home swiftly. As I ran home, my head was crowded with thoughts to the point where I could not even think about why I was supposed to be home quickly. That day marked the transition of what would be the biggest change in my life. As by dad became sicker,

Currently, I am working for Home Life, which is a non-profit organization that assists people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. I am also conducting research at OSU on cartilage cryopreservation. After an arduous, yet enjoyable journey, I hope to travel to developing nations and assist those that are unfortunate, by providing knowledge regarding health and medical practices. Working hard in school and excelling in everything I pursue ties in with my long-term goal of becoming a doctor. This is due to the fact that attaining such a career requires self-determination, strength during times of agony, and resilience as well as reflection from every failure. Personally, preventing diseases and spreading awareness medically would be profoundly illuminating.

My faith in humanity compels me to help people. I aspire to enhance the quality of life for people on an international level. The world has a way of interconnecting people to form communities. I believe these communities unite the world as a whole, working together to terminate cancer, combat diseases, and extinguish poverty. Changing the lives of human beings fuels my desire to pursue a career in medicine.

My larger vision is becoming a biomedical engineer. What interests me most about the field is the intricate combination of two seemingly opposite characteristics. Engineers are sometimes seen as people who are on an elevated level of intelligence, but a below average sense of interpersonality. As a Biomedical Engineer, you are required to interact closely with patient. It’s impossible to complete a job without getting to know a patient. You have to identify their ailment or whatever else may be troubling them, and incorporate different levels of math, science, and technology to resolve the issue at

Initially after high school I decided to move across the country in order to find myself, my passions, and my career goals. I attended WW-P South in Princeton Junction where many of my friends chose TCNJ. I always loved TCNJ but I knew I wasn't academically ready to be part of the community just yet. I started at a private university in California which turned out to be an amazing experience but also a lesson learned that it was not for me. Everything was new and overwhelming and it was the first time being completely on my own. After completing my freshmen year, I moved to a community college to do better academically and work a little on the side. My passion for pursing a degree boosted during my second community college that I attended.

I want to evoke change in the world. Enrolling in Medical Anthropology in my last year opened my eyes to how pervasive structural violence is globally and how it disproportionally affects the health of the most vulnerable people in society. Specifically, I was inspired by Paul Farmer, a physician/anthropologist who went to great lengths to provide medical care to people of the third world and raise awareness for countless human rights violations. I have aspirations of one day working for the WHO in order to put into fruition plans that would benefit not only the country which I will reside and work in, but also humanity universally. My experience at a local Toronto hospital has enabled me to see what it really means to be a doctor. Being a doctor entails much more than assessing a patient and prescribing them medication. One must empathize with the plight of his/her patients.

When choosing a career path, I thought to myself what is the most complex, difficult, amazing thing on the earth? The answer to that question is simple - the body. What could be more exhilarating, insightful, demanding, and important than studying and exploring the human body? There is no other field that compares with the study of the most amazing machine! The world is making incredible advancements in medicine. I would love to be a part of that.

Last year, my small high school was finally graced with an Astronomy class. I eagerly signed up, and discovered the curriculum surpassed my expectations. I had a wonderful time in the class, and discovered many wonderful things. The creation and destruction of stars, the substances that make up our universe, extraordinary facts about planets, moons, and asteroids; these are just a fraction of the topics I learned throughout the class, but only one really stretched my mind. Stretched may even be too simple of a term to describe its effect on my mind.

As a long term goal, I aim to continue pursuing my passion for a career in medicine. Seeing my parents who have arthritis, and combining it with my experiences working with the elderly and my interest in the sciences, I made my goal of becoming a rheumatologist. However, I aim to also stay open to the endless opportunities in life, because we never know where we may be needed to make a positive change in the

Woah, have you ever had Drubers doughnuts. There the best doughnuts in Kansas. I love being able to go to Drubers at night with all my friends, even though you have to wait in line it's all worth it. This is why you should move to Newton.

I am so very excited to begin my college career. I sincerely hope I will be starting at the University of Arkansas. This school has been my dream school for several years now, and I have worked so hard to qualify for admission. I plan to get my Bachelors of Social Work and move on to your dual degree program for the Masters of Social Work and Juris Doctor of Law. It has been my dream to one day fight for children who cannot fight for themselves, to pluck them from the arms of destruction, and to build a better future for them. I want to help them climb out of the destructive life they live in.

Throughout my life, I have worked towards one goal which is to become a doctor. Medicine offers the opportunity for me to integrate different scopes of science while trying to improve human life. Medicine has intrigued me throughout all my life because it??s a never ending

What career do you aspire? A question that is inevitable to all of us. Many of us struggle to find out the career that we are going to pursue. For many a decision of choosing a career comes when they are already in college and for others they seem to know at a young age what career they are going to follow. There is a group of professionals that we cannot live without; in fact we rely on them for good health and to save our life and the lives of our loved ones, and they are the Doctors.