I will be the first to tell you, I was not an excellent student my first two years. I was a foolish one who had stayed in school while I should have been in a hospital. Maybe I made a poor choice to be enrolled in classes while ill but I wouldn’t dream of changing it as it was therapeutic in and of itself. While I may not be the best student on paper, I hope this document will make you take a second look at who I am as a student and let it speak to my skills and character.
Although I am still just an undergraduate, I have had the great fortune to already participate in the academic community through research. Specifically, I have been worked for my P.I., Tim P. Szczykutowicz, within the medical physics department of the Wisconsin Institute
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The research aspect of my job is by far and away my favorite part about, and has led me to develop a useful skill set. Not only am I well versed in MATLAB, but I have learned image processing techniques and how to apply statistical methods to draw up relevant conclusions. From these separate experiences, we have had one paper on CT protocol management published and another one on the correlation of patient positioning and noise non uniformity under review. Under the supervision of Dr. Szczykutowicz, I will be pursuing my own independent research, with the same ideas in mind but on a much larger scale. Being in a clinical setting means access to patient data, and luckily a database of over 50,000 images labeled as high or low image quality. My goals for this project are to use a variety of techniques to implement a system to verify the quality of an image upon the technicians receiving it from their PACS system. Further outcomes could possibly be the creation of new protocols or an application to recommend a technician redo a scan if it is determined to be of poor quality. This latest research is very connected to not only my research interests, but my career goals. Medical imaging is an amazing technique, it’s revolutionized how we diagnose patients, but that means …show more content…
In every area I started with nothing, when I started my job I didn’t know anything about image processing and didn’t even know how to properly use an oscilloscope before these past two semesters of design and student orgs. Along the way I made some large mistake, the most notable costing me over a hundred hours to fix however, it was just one more opportunity to learn and make sure that mistake wouldn’t be made again. I’m excited to begin the application process for graduate schools next fall as I know no matter how unpredictable the process, and eventually school, is I’ll be able to put the work in to succeed to the best of my abilities. Thank you for your
The fear of death is one of the most prominent themes in White Noise. Everything in the novel - from Hitler to the toxic airborne event - circles back to how human beings are subconsciously afraid of dying. DeLillo’s novel displays how life attempts to push this fear away, almost saying “out of sight, out of mind”. Yet, as we see in the characters of Jack and Babette, the fear continues to rear its ugly head and fill them with terror. DeLillo shows this close relationship between life and death. He could be trying to show how death lingers dangerously in the background of our lives.
The American Revolution was a conflict between 13 British colonies on the eastern seaboard of North America and their parent country, Great Britain. The war resulted in the colonies becoming a separate nation, the United Stated of America. It is also known as the American War of Independence.
1. Women in Ancient Greece Mention ancient Greece to a friend and they may think of democracy, the Olympic games or the Spartan army. However, men created many of the sources that tell us about these institutions and developments; men were also the intended audience (Scott, 2009). But the ancient Greeks still felt a female presence in many aspects of their culture, including female gods, characters in poetry and folklore, and of course in everyday life. Women in the city of Sparta were allowed to own land, and one of the Spartan kings’ sisters even entered a chariot team in the Olympic games of 396 and 392 BCE (Scott 38).
Over the remaining course of clinicals, I have continued to search for advancements in my work ethic. Along the way, new strengths and weaknesses were found to build myself upon. Some of the newly acquired strengths I developed would be using the digital panel and system more efficiently, observing and retaining technique factors used, and remembering multiple patient history over a long period of time (Rouse,2016). These strengths play a significant role in what I have learned throughout my clinical journey at Advanced Imaging Concepts. Each one of my strengths have enlightened me to become a better future radiologic technologist. Without my clinical instructor and coordinator, I would not have found my weaknesses. Now, I have created several action plans used to solve these problems tactically. With their guidance, I have noticed my weaknesses are not knowing what confirms a good radiograph in regards of anatomy of interest, marker placement, and collimation to reduce patient dose.
Upon arriving as a student at the University of Kansas, I immediately took an interest in numerous extracurricular activities and organizations. I have established myself as a leader in multiple organizations, including my role as vice president in the Biomedical Engineering Society at KU. These organizations have provided fantastic experiences, but I found myself needing more. I found enjoyment and success in my classes, but I was eager to apply my knowledge. I sought out positions in various research groups on campus, and I eventually pursued an opportunity to partake in undergraduate research involving hydrogels and their characteristics in Dr. Stevin Gehrke’s lab.
There have been so many who have helped me in my pursuit to obtain a medical education. Without the lending hands and ears I have received, I wouldn’t be where I am today. These applications mean everything, as they show that I have proceeded to the next step. Each small consistent step has brought me to this point in my journey. I hope to follow the great examples I have shadowed, and hope to lead in the field of medicine as I offer my own unique talents and traits. I hope to arrive each morning and show my patients that I am attentive and intimately care in earning their trust and respect as a
Unfortunately it has been a very difficult year for my family and I, but I feel that I have progressed as a student in being able to overcome the obstacles, pull through and at least keep up with the course. I refused to give up when times were tough and that determination to some extent I feel reflected in my continuation on the course. As a result of this, I feel I have I am on the way to developing skills of time management and organisation, which proved to be essential in my circumstances and despite having to ask for an extension for TMA 03 and considering doing so an other occasions, I completed all essays, which in itself is an achievement for me.
I would like to take this opportunity to express my sincere gratitude for all the efforts that you have invested in helping me improve my writing. The efforts that you invested in me did not go in vain. In this course, I have become insightful in regard to the process of writing as whole. Who knew that writing can be challenging yet rewarding simultaneously? Through many challenges that I have encountered in this class, and many exercises comprised in the course, I have come to clearly realize different weaknesses and strengths that I possess when it comes to writing. As the semester was rolling into action, I was straggling with certain elements of the writing process. Unlike many writers, beginning to write was usually the most challenging aspect of the writing process. For many unproductive hours, I would simply stare blankly at my writing equipment while blank thoughts ran through my mind. In addition to my inability to produce words for my writing, I sometimes have problems with coming up with a solid theses statement. Clearly introducing my topic can sometimes be a challenging task. I usually had a tendency of spending great amount of my time on introducing my paper. However, the first conference that we had was an eye-opening session. As I stated in my diagnosis essay that we wrote at the beginning of the semester, I have come to acquire techniques that have helped me resolve these challenges.
First of all I would like to thank you for the time and hard work you put in this semester to teach my classmates and me. This semester I learned a lot in your class such as APA style writing, how to write different format essays and Bloom’s Taxonomy. In your course I not only lesrned how to become a better learner but also a better person. I still remember how nervous I was feeling the first day of class. This was my first semester attending college, which made me feel worse. Since the first day I came into your class I was expecting this course to help me improve my writting skills in English. I consider spelling to be my greatest weakness in writing because my first language is Spanish and I have a lot of trouble learning English. In this letter I will let you know what I learned and how I have met the programs standards of focus, development and clarity because I have practice APA style, writting assays and using Bloom’s Toxonomy
Noise characterisation is a critical research area for varied domains and applications. The domains include marine, aviation, transport, civil engineering etc. The applications could include numerous military and non military applications like fatigue failures in material, human comfort, acoustics stealth, marine mammal habitat assessment, condition based monitoring of machineries etc. In many engineering situations, machines are mounted on flexible structures such as the ships deck, aircraft fuselage, car or train chasis, building floors etc. When in operation machines may transmit noise and vibrations to the receiving structures, causing unwanted noise and vibration problems close to remote from source location.
I know that the road that I take to become a doctor is going to be very challenging; however I feel that my past has prepared me for taking on the challenge. As a student, I am an active participant in my academic and extracurricular activities. My first priority has always been to make good grades and learn in college. Although this is important to me, I also know that by participating in clubs, sports, and extracurricular activities, I will become a well-rounded student. I have been working hard for the last 7 years, operating as an independent, responsible adult. In that time I have constantly learnt from my life experiences and developed skills in both learning and life management. I am a very motivated person with goal setting, time management and prior skills that help me achieve what I aim to do.
College has become the leading source of one’s development towards greatness. Those who can achieve a successful lifestyle, can often be correlated with being great. Becoming great is an opportunity open to all, but only a few have been capable of attaining greatness. Although we often complicated ourselves with the frequent hardships and difficulties presented to us, when simplified our lives consist of two simple elements, a goal, and its plan. What separates us, one from another, is our unique ability of persistence and dedication towards a goal, some have more than others. My plan for greatness consists of many longs years dedicated to studying and researching in hopes of becoming a medical doctor.
When I received the letter on the 21st informing me of my unsatisfactory academic progress this last semester, I was deeply saddened, and is wishing for you the Examination Board to let me continue completing my degree for next semester. I don’t really mean to make excuses for my poor academic performances, but I did have a very difficult time last semester and my grades suffered as a result even though I’ve repeated that paper twice (Strategic Management). I would like to explain myself and the reason for my unsatisfactory academic result and circumstances.
Because of my passion for healthcare, I have numerous social roles relating to the field. Most importantly, I have a social role of being a pre-medical undergraduate student at Loyola University Chicago, a university which is known for their pre-professional health care programs. As a student, I have a social script of educating myself in order to obtain a beneficial career in the future. Through the help of the professors, teacher’s assistants, classmates, and tutoring sessions that are present at Loyola, I am able to fulfill my social script of providing myself a sturdy foundation into the medical field. Through these “trainings,” I know how to work hard in order to achieve success in my prerequisite classes for medical school. By the social scripts presented to me by the Loyola staff, I make sure that my education is my top priority.
The semester is coming to a close, and what better way to end it than a rationale of my writing thus far. I have always had a natural talent to write, but I never knew how well I would do in college. When I first came to college, I was quite nervous about how I may not succeed in this class, especially since I have the very severe writer’s block. However, I am at a point in the semester where I can say that my assumption is most likely false. I have put an optimum amount of effort into this course so that I surpass my goal, which was not only to pass the course, but to strive in it.