WISE Student Summer Research Benefits

My inspiration to pursue a lifelong career in nursing derived from witnessing a close individual succumb to a painful and chronic disease when I was the tender age of 6. I pondered and researched endlessly on the symptoms and damage caused by that disease until I comprehended its origin and everlasting effects. The memory of witnessing that individual die will continue to plague my memories and serve as a reminder of why I continue to strive for my goals today. From that point on, I knew exactly the person I aspired to be in the future—a nurse. I was fascinated with acquiring knowledge about the human body and diseases. In high school, I applied to a local hospital to become a candystriper to gain more insight about the medical field and nursing. I was placed into the endoscopy department and it was there where I truly established my determination to take on the challenge of becoming a nurse. I witnessed and experienced a myriad of things during my time there. I grasped how to become more compassionate and to prioritize one’s life and safety above everything. The hospital became my personified version of Utopia.

For me nursing was not something that I initially intended to do as a career. During elementary school and into high school I contemplated many different career paths such as cosmetology, teaching, psychology, and forensics. It was not till the later years of high school that I started to notice my desire to help other individuals and love of science, health, and different disease processes. My desire to help people has originated from the admiration of my grandfather’s

I feel as though taking on a career in nursing means that you have to love what you do and be ready to build relationships with the patient through love or even just conversation because you never know what they are really going through. Relationships are one of the things that I have been learning in my nurse aide class because it builds trust and comfort between you and the patient. This is what education does for me because I know that I will always be comfortable being able to get a job no matter what. Also, you build trust with your teachers and other students which will help you in the long

When I graduated high school I had no idea what I wanted to do, all I knew is I was done with public school and could live my life as what I thought an adult was. My father and most of my family believed it was important for me to go to college, and get a kick start with my life. Though they weren’t wrong, I had no idea what I wanted to do and no discipline to do my studies to the full extent of my abilities.

If I get into summer ventures, I would take that experience with me wherever I go. I would use the summer experience to enhance my academic goals by learning how to problem solve, designing projects, and investigating topics in the area I am placed. In the future I can take everything I learn from the summer experience by using it in my future career field and throughout school. Throughout my career I will use the problem solving skills and the investigation skills to diagnose patients and help see what is wrong with them. If I get into Summer Ventures, I will keep the experience with me for my entire academic and job

Nursing, in my opinion, takes full commitment from someone. One must be knowledgeable, dedicated, and willing to help others at all cost. My mother is the greatest nurse I have ever encountered and has been my inspiration since I can remember. She has been a nurse for over 20 years and I have been captivated ever since. I was born to do this, to advocate and help others that are in need. Being able to apply the knowledge and skills learned in a real hands-on situation has given me the utmost motivation to fulfill my dreams of one day becoming a nurse. I was able to successfully complete my rounds of clinical hours as part of my nursing program at various locations and departments. I was assigned to MD Anderson, Harris County Psychiatric Center, and Silverado Memory Care Community, where I was able to work with many different types of patients and become acclimated to the environment. The duties in which I was able to preform varied location to location but included, head to toe assessments, insertion/removal of Foley catheters, medication administration, tube feedings, trachea suctioning, and numerous care plans just to name a few. I was able to interact with patients one on one as a student which has instilled confidence and reassurance in my future.

In my younger days, education was not a priority in my life. By the time I graduated high school, like most, I had no idea want I wanted to do with the rest of my life. I started attending a community college a short distance away from where I lived. I was constantly changing my degree course. I would start a class thinking that I would major in the course topic, only to change my mind before the course’s conclusion. At best, I was mediocre with my schooling. I managed to graduate from my community college with subpar grades. Looking back this, is one of my biggest regrets. I came to realize I did not know what I wanted to do with myself.

For the majority of my senior year in high school, I never knew what my plans were after graduation. I knew I had to go to college because if I didn’t I would very much disappoint my parents. Whenever a teacher or mentor would ask me about my plans after high school I would always say something different. At first, I wanted to be a teacher. Then for some reason I decided I wanted to be a dermatologist. Finally, my answer to the infamous question was, “I don’t know, I’m not really sure what I want to do yet.” A few months later and after many more people asking me the same thing, I would go through a life changing experience.

The drive to purse nursing as a career stems from an innate passion for helping others. Helping, healing, and nurturing are all qualities that have grown and developed throughout my life, and have lead to Nursing. I have always had a caring and supportive spirit since I was young, volunteering whenever the opportunity arose in Senior Citizen Homes, Special Olympics, and with Anne Arundel Medical Center. Into my teenage years I realized how much of a difference could be made when working directly with people, which nurtured this interest into my college career.

For as long as I can remember, I have been constantly brainwashed that the right thing to do after graduating high school is to go straight to a college or university and study to someday obtain my dream job. I never once gave it a second thought until my senior year of high school, where I realized that instead of feeling excited to graduate, I was filled with an intense fear of moving on to college. Due to this fear, I scrambled to discover what career I wanted to pursue, hoping that by having a direction, I might feel more comfortable attending college. Unfortunately, of all the professions that I told myself I wanted, none made me feel any more at ease. After this realization, I explored the option of taking a gap year, an option that had

The Summer Learning Lab is a great opportunity for me to grow as a person and as a science student. It will show me technology and science I have never seen before and will also be a great program to help me explore my options to be able to decide what I would like to study in college. This program is a great opportunity for students like me that have the desire to study science, but do not have the resources necessary. The Summer Learning Lab will open new doors and adventures that I know will change my life and the way that I perceive things. Science is such a wonderful field and I can’t wait to explore it with The Summer Learning Lab.

I love doing the math and thinking through all of the possible ways to solve, and the best way to solve a problem. When I solve a tough problem I’ve been thinking over for a while it honestly betters my day, and nothing can dampen my spirit. I went to a camp hosted by Envision, called National Youth Leadership Forum: Explore STEM. I put effort into raising the money needed to go, but I did it, and I’m very glad I did. The camp helped me learn about STEM and helped me think in greater detail about the careers I want to pursue. With the help of said camp, I have a decently strong idea of what career I want to pursue, and it is Engineering, specifically Biomedical Engineering. I chose these subsets of engineering in particular because I believe I could cause the most positive difference in one of them, while enjoying

Nursing is a unique field full of knowledge, skills, values, and most importantly, commitment. It is not just a simple commitment, but also more of a professional commitment. Within the nursing field, there are specific goals that must be met in order to become a competent nurse. High standards and expectations are required to achieve a certain level of competency to prepare for the role of taking care of lives. Therefore, nursing should not just be considered a job, or a career, but also a profession with heart.

Through this summer program I want to experience an intro to astrophysics and gain a preview of college life. During this course I want to become familiar with the work involved in astrophysics. This will help me be more prepared for what to expect in college and what kind of work I should be ready for. I also want to use this time to see if I have the right skills to be an astrophysicist and what skills I need to improve before college. From participating in this course I also want to see if my preliminary interests in astrophysics continue after experiencing a taste of what a career in this subject could be like. This would be the best time for me to find this out about myself as opposed to spending tens of thousands at college and learning

When it comes to people who are attending college, the next step is what you are going to do after college. A million and one questions will arise once you are close to the finish line. It is a never ending questions that many people do not want to hear or even answer. Nine times out of ten, some people do not know the answer, it all depends what classification you are in. If you are just entering college, then that is acceptable because you are just starting out and want to just focus on your school work while maintaining your GPA and scholarships (if any). However, if you are ending in your junior year and senior year, you need to have an idea on what you want to do. Especially, if you are in your spring semester. Time will fly and soon before you know it, it will be your graduation and you still do not know what you want to do.