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In addition to my experience in advising and student affairs, I have also worked as a professional in financial aid for the past eight years. During my time in financial aid I have seen first-hand the challenges students face with the cost of obtaining a higher education degree. My role in financial aid has evolved over my career while exploring the theoretical

Going through an era when the Vietnam War was a smash hit in your town, many high school senior boys would be drafted out if their number was on the list of people. The men drafted had to leave behind their families and aspirations. Tim O’Brien uses different perspectives in The Things They Carried to show if something tragic happens in life, consequently dealing with it may be hard. Moving on will help in the future.

“Naropa is a buddhist founded university, and a lot of people, when they’re asked why they chose to go to Naropa, will say that Naropa chose them, and I think that is the same for me,” She says. When she began looking at colleges in high school, the two things she knew was that she wanted to be in Northern California, and she wanted it to have a program that was about humanitarian stewardship. She looked and many colleges but couldn’t find one that really reeled her in. But then her college career counselor directed her to Naropa, and it was almost exactly what she was looking for. Delaney is currently in her junior year at Naropa, and is in an interdisciplinary major with concentrations in peace studies and scientific psychology. An interdisciplinary degree is taking two or three concentrations, and by studying peace studies and scientific psychology simultaneously, she studies how they overlap and when they do, what they create. Studying them also allows her to get a degree in humanitarian work. Delaney also has a job as a personal and private assistant for a man that is on the board of directors for her university who has many good connections and owns a startup company. Her parents pay her rent and her cell phone bill, but Delaney pays for her utilities, groceries, car insurance, school supplies and textbooks. She also nannies an eight-month-old baby

“Never be a doctor if you’re going to have any loans to pay back.” “Don’t do this to yourself.” “You’ll never have a family if you go to medical school.” “The two worst jobs in America belong to physicians and teachers.” Without even soliciting their advice, physicians noticed my “Pre-medical Volunteer” nametag, and immediately approached me with words of discouragement. I participated in a volunteer summer internship at St. Mary Hospital in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, following my sophomore year of college, in an effort to gain more experience in the medical field and solidify my lifelong desire to become a physician. Throughout the eight weeks, I spent mandatory hours in both the Emergency Room and the Operating Room, made contacts with physicians in specific areas of interest, and spent time shadowing them. In addition, each of us in the program attended weekly business meetings in which administrators of the hospital and local physicians spoke to us about their particular positions and experiences. Unlike the many years of high school I spent volunteering at a hospital and a nursing home, where I was limited to carrying around food trays and refilling cups of water, I was able to gain hands-on and more intimate experience. Initially uneasy at the site of the blood gushing into plastic sheets draped around the orthopedic surgeon’s patient in the OR, it took only a few days to grow accustomed to the images on the television screen during a laparoscopic procedure and the

Dr. Winner received her undergraduate Bachelor of Science degree from Stanford University in 2001, and then took an astounding three year break before even beginning medical school. Interestingly, she decided to enter onto the pre med track later in college and so she applied later as well, which accounted for one year of her break. However, being from Alaska, one of her desires was to go to the University of Washington in Seattle, as it was considered a state medical school because Alaska did not have one. She applied there, but was rejected. Columbia University, however, did accept her, but she did not want to go there, as she viewed it as being “halfway across the country from her.” So she asked to defer her enrollment and surprisingly, they allowed it. So, in that year

Similar to the biology laboratory, where I focused on studies that prompted me to examine complex systems by observing their smaller cellular components, the Meharry Medical College, School of Medicine in Nashville, TN comes with the same instruction manual. Looking in from the outside, this institution is a vastly complex system, but after a tedious probing its special core components of excellence in medical education, research, and service can be remarkably uncovered. While it is an established fact that Meharry Medical College produces students who are competently trained and well prepared for the field of medicine; I, however, find its greatest attribute to be its special focus on serving the nation's underserved and most vulnerable populations.

Bennie lives in a small-overcrowded apartment with her widowed mother along with her brother and his growing family of three. Even though her family has always struggled financially with no one ever getting past their dreams of improving their status in life, she is determined to pursue a college degree in medicine not even certain of where tuition will come from. Following the recent death of her father, the family is anxiously anticipating the arrival of a hefty insurance check, which could be the answer to her financial needs for medical school.

I would be honored to enroll at the WMU homer Stryker M.D School of Medicine because of the school’s dedication to educating physicians through community outreach and commitment to lifelong learning. After volunteering for the past five years at the C.A.R.E. Clinic for the uninsured, I understand the need to serve uninsured Americans. Therefore, I want my medical school experience to incorporate opportunities to serve this population at locations such as the Family Health Center. In addition, the community health rotation would allow me to continue my commitment to the under and uninsured

All accepted program participants receive an all-expense paid four-day visit to Philadelphia. During their time on the Penn campus, the participants attend workshops on searching for graduate programs, writing effective application statements, and crafting research agendas. Moreover, they interact with Penn GSE

Through high school he was good with math, and was looking for a job that involved math and money, so he decided to be an accountant. Between his junior and senior year, his dad took him to an actuary firm to see if he would enjoy the work. Spring break of his junior Mr. House and his mother did a tour of colleges in the south which included North Carolina State, Auburn, and Georgia Tech. He remembers coming out of the student center and noticing that Tech did not look like it was in the middle of a city. Through his senior year he was still considering actuary work or possibly engineering, so he applied to NC State and tech knowing that he was in the Presidential Scholar’s program at both schools. His mother found the Presidential Scholars program and helped him apply for it. For the president scholar’s program all of his materials made it to Georgia Tech on time but his essays had been lost in transit, so Georgia Tech gave him another chance to reapply. A couple of weeks after the deadline Mr. House’s original application had arrived at Georgia Tech mangled into pieces with a stamp that said “Damaged by Postal

O’Brien, forty-three years old, dates back to when he “was drafted to fight a war he hated.” He planned on attending Harvard for a graduate study on a full-ride scholarship. He was way “Too smart, too compassionate, too everything ”: he knew what he wanted to do and who he was; although, the Vietnam war had no interest for the lives of its soldiers. For Tim O’Brien, he was pulled from Minnesota; for other soldiers, they were pulled from their respective hometowns-- all were taken out of comfortability to devastation. This memory moment, along with others, develops the setting by displaying

Obviously Audrey had accomplished what she wanted to at the University of Utah, but she had put herself through two solid years of full tuition by working as a day-care provider for four dollars and seventy-five cents an hour. While she had to juggle a job and numerous classes, adding up to 18 credit hours, she had

Then he moved onto his academics in college, but those did not go to well for him. Uncle Sam came next with the letter as how he met his wife for being drafted. Quack-quack-quack oh wait the duck commanders are coming up too. I highly recommend the book; because of the way it makes you laugh and smile while reading it.

How they combined their own unique interests with their desire to serve. I knew that although interesting, becoming a doctor is a long and hard road. One that requires serious personal investigation and hardened commitment.

Proudly, he finished high school at the age of sixteen, but could not follow the footsteps of his older brothers and join the military, because he was too young. Therefore, he decided to continue his studies. The completion of his degree in biology was bittersweet. He was the first and the only one in his family to have graduated from college, however, there were not a lot of opportunities for a young African-American male in 1957, in small town Alabama. After taking few odd jobs, he decided to enlist in the military.