My Personal Statement On My Life

My vision as an undergraduate student of the Haskayne School of Business (HSB) is to become a well-rounded influential leader and equip myself with a set of skills and values that will enhance me as an individual in my career. Thus, my goal is to succeed academically and socially, graduating with a distinction and having built strong relationships.

Pursing a career as a medical doctor is an opportunity for me to mentor youth in underserved populations. As a child, I was raised in the low income, urban community of Roxbury, MA. Although not as notorious today, the neighborhood had garnered negative attention for its high crime rates. My mother emigrated from Haiti and raised me as a single parent. Due to our financial circumstance, Roxbury became our permanent residence. I have always felt there was something lacking in Roxbury in comparison to other towns I visited. My teenage years were largely spent in the suburban town of Stoneham where I attended high school. There was a literal difference in air quality and a psychology contrast in future prospects. While native students of

There are few certainties of what one will encounter during life. A common joke names two: death and

Since I was a child, my mother would tell me to try my hardest in school. She told me thought thing because as a child, she never had the opportunity to go to school. She only completed up to 4th grade, because her family couldn’t pay the tuition to attend. She would had to wake up at 4oclock in the morning to sell food, to make a living for her family. We were fortunate enough to be able to come to the United States in 2005, but tragedy happens a year later. She received a phone call, saying that my father was in a serious car accident, on the night of Christmas Eve, he passed away. Since then my mother, became a single mother having to support two children by herself in a new country. There

I have been a communications officer in FCR for 8yrs, I was also a special constable for 7yrs, during my time as a comms officer I have progressed through call taking and dispatching. Last year I was successfully promoted to scale 5 and have been working as a senior comms officer since that time. I am a tutor and have tutored 9 new members of staff on call taking and dispatch and 2 others on the ANPR desk. I am fully trained in ANPR, VODS, recruitment and selection interviewing and as an acting supervisor. I am also the health and safety SPOC along with first aid and fire marshal for FCR a role I volunteered to take on alongside my normal duties. I have completely rewritten the health and safety book to bring it up to date, I have

Stepping on to my high school’s campus for the first time, I felt a little nervous, a bit excited and very clueless. I rushed to my friends who were conveniently standing near the entrance; almost as to feel safe. The transition from middle school to high school meant very much to me. I entered high school knowing that it was my chance to finally work towards reaching my goal of attending college; it was the chance life had privileged me with. Looking back it all now, It was a change I didn't feel prepared for, yet, I regret very little and glad I worked as hard as I did.

I thrive on gaining knowledge. Even now, as a non-traditional student and busy mother to two young children, learning excites me. As an 18-year-old in Germany, I began a 10-year career as a military analyst that honed my ability to think critically, pay attention to detail, and visualize holistic solutions to unique problems. However, I spent my free time riding a bike along The Rhine searching for a quiet space to settle in with the wisdom of books such as The Art of Happiness and The Elegant Universe. There, on those riverbanks, I discovered within myself an innate curiosity of the mind and the fundamental nature of the world.

Since childhood I was confronted with abuse, poverty, insecurity, and lacking positive role models impacting my mental and physical health resulting in psychosomatic conditions that included depression and anxiety. Personally struggling through childhood trauma has motivated me during my educational, professional, and economic experiences in both Peru and the USA to develop and innovate strategies for prevention. My vision is to execute a healthcare approach that integrates physical and mental components, is accessible to individuals and families, and will reduce disparities in disadvantaged populations. Access to integrated healthcare will turn despair into hope and improve lives. The UC Davis PhD

I started my career in an unorthodox way: delivering science and technology news directly to

If I were to choose an intended audience to target, my choice would be adolescents currently attending high school. High school students in this day and age have their plates full to the brim. With all the classes they are required to take, the pile of homework they’re assigned each night, and the extracurricular activities they’ve signed up for, it’s no wonder that they don’t have much time to think about the future. Despite having full schedules, I believe that a modern home economics, or life skills class, would be worth freeing up time for. My plan would be to create an impactful video and several different flyers to promote my idea and maximize its reach. The video would be distributed through social media platforms such as Facebook,

My mom never had to really patrol on me or my older sister to do our homework because we never had a problem taking care of our then responsibilities. The most she would have to do is check over it and make sure it was right and with time, she wouldn’t even have to do that because we started checking over our own homework. By the fifth grade, my homework was one-hundred percent only in my hands. By the end of eighth grade, I knew I would have no problem transitioning into being even more self-sufficient in high school. With newfound independence came newfound responsibilities, and I was more than ready for it. I rarely ever slacked on my homework and even developed my own personal study habits. My mom’s policy with school was that if you failed but she saw that you were at least trying your hardest, all would be forgiven. I learned this in my freshman year of high school when I failed my algebra class. I studied often and tried to have my sister help me but when I got into class, what the teacher was saying and what I had learned just didn’t add up and I wound up failing the class. My mom wasn’t mad at me but instead helped make me feel better by telling me about when she failed her AP Calculus class when she was in high school, paid for my summer class, and let me continue to manage my own

I realized that she never had any love for me, but I knew she let that do this to me. I had to be home trained sense she did not want anyone to know, she even made it where I could not talk to my own dad, friend, or our family. I gave birth at home because she did not want to go to jail. I felt so down and out until one day my mom’s boyfriend died and she came out and told everyone what he had did to me. From that day forward I have never seen her again. She does not write or call I guess because she knew that she was for what she did to

I began despising my mom. I blame her for allowing my father to use our home as a revolving door. I can’t fathom how she allows him to come and go when his girlfriend kicks him out, each time he leaves my heart breaks all over again. I loathe her for taking his physical, mental, and emotional abuse and not standing up for herself. I detest her for allowing him to abuse me emotionally and verbally. Not many kids can say their dads have spit in their face, or are told that “you’re not worth the thirty minute round trip to come visit”. I resent my mother for spending every second of the day crying and trying to get my daddy to come home.

A time in my life were an incident occurred that had had a major impact on me was this summer. This summer was probably one the worst times in my life because my dad left my mom. He left us with nothing because my mom was the reason why they were no longer together. I couldn’t see my dad anymore or even talk to him. I was left feeling depressed and not wanted. At this point in my life I hated and I did wish I wasn’t alive at that time, It was such miserable time in my life were nothing got better it just kept getting worse and worse. I cried myself to sleep every night because I thought everyone hated me and that nobody wanted me. I was stuck babysitting all the time because my mom was out trying to make money. All my grandma did was talk about how horrible my dad was and how she wanted him to die. It just made me mad because it was my mom’s fault every part of it was but I couldn’t say that because I loved my mom more than anything in this world. I also knew she would flip out on me if i said it was her fault because she knew it was. The thing that made it ten times worse was that she found someone new and he was the biggest piece of trash ever. My mom is my queen, she is the best thing that has ever happened to me, and I couldn’t imagine life without her . She just tries so hard to make everyone else happy that sometimes it brings her spirit down. I know she didn’t leave my dad to make everyone upset, she just needed a break because five kids and a husband who is always

I never knew what it felt like to be content in a relationship, or what true love was, until I met Dan. Prior to this success, I disentangled myself out of a three year relationship full of manipulative and childish acts.