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Pursuing A Degree In Medicine Personal Statement

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As long as I can remember, I have always been interested in medicine as well as technology. Thinking back, I believe my true passion for technology began when I was in elementary and middle school. I spent hours mindlessly attempting to copy programs from computer magazines and eventually learned to code and write my own programs. I spent a lot of time attempting to learn how to program, and when the programs did not run I spent even more hours figuring out the “why” and how to fix it. Little did I know at the time that not all kids my age found this activity a huge amount of fun. Eventually, I joined the computer club in middle school and finally met a few others my age that also had a passion for computers and technology. It was not until entered college freshman year when all of …show more content…

I took the summer off and when the fall semester came, I had switched my major to pre-med and then finally, nursing. At the time the choice to major in nursing, although driven by the interest in medicine, was also a practical one. I needed to be able to support myself and care for my daughter; and a nursing degree guaranteed me a job upon graduation. Because I still had interests in business as well as technology, I actually attempted to persuade the university to allow me a double major. Unfortunately, at the time, the school did not allow a double major in more than one school within the university such as Nursing, Business or Engineering/Computer Science. Although I only majored nursing and graduated with a BSN in Nursing, I never lost my passion for computers or technology and continued to stay current on emerging technological trends and teach myself different coding languages when I had

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