What Has Happened? College That Reveals Your Intelligence, Service, Or Capabilities?

The invaluable skills that I have gained and learned through my after school clubs, Future Business Leaders of America, (FBLA) and National Honor Society( NHS), has stirred up a desire in me to help my community and to make a difference in the lives of people, by majoring in the Public Health field. Through Public Health, I will help those in my community at large to live healthy lives; mentally, socially, physically and culturally. Healthcare is an essential need in life and is a great field that would allow me to make a difference.

The healthcare sector offers a variety of professional opportunities that include pediatric, geriatrics, public policy and many other areas in which I hope to make a impact towards. I have always been intrigued by medicine and continue to gain more interest in public health. In the future, I desire to combine both medicine and public health by participating in an MD and MPH program. My experiences and education provide me with constant motivation in achieving my goals.

Allison Krausz is a senior in the Health Education program at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Allison is from Swansea, Illinois and graduated from Belleville East High School in 2012. When Allison came to SIUe her first semester, she was set on becoming a dentist. Throughout her first semester, Allison mom would always tell her, ‘there is more to a career than money. You are such a caring person Allie, you were meant to do great things.’ At the end of Allison’s first year of college, her mom passed away. Listening to her mom’s words in her, Allison decided to change her major to Health Education. The Health Education program at SIUe has offered Allison the proper education to use her caring heart for good by educating others

What followed were the applications, the score reports, and the dreaded essays. I was terrified to write a personal narrative to determine my future. All of the essay seminars, online forum speculation, and college essay “help” websites just contributed to the stress and left me more bewildered than

After taking care of my children and teaching them for more than 12 years as well as earning my GED in October 2013, I finally had the chance to go to college for the first time in my life at the young age of 40. Besides being a first generation immigrant, I also became the first of my father’s ten children to attend college when I registered as a student at Wayne County Community College in January 2014. After earning my Associates Degree in Science in May of 2016 and my Pharmacy Tech Certificate in August of 2016, as well as my Central Service Tech Certificate in May of 2017 I still have two main goals to accomplish in the next 2 years as a student at WCCCD: 1) Earn admission into WCCCD Dental Hygienist Program by July 2017 – application

While interacting with current medical students pursuing the MD/MPH dual degree at a UTHSCSA student panel, I realized that obtaining an MPH would align greatly with my interests and career goals, allowing me to expand the scope of my medical education and enhance my critical thinking skills. I enjoy how public health combines various aspects needed to treat disease and improve health outcomes, and I know that integrating the MPH core concepts with my medical degree, will help me to become a well-rounded and better physician who approaches healthcare through both an individual and population-based perspective. An education in public health will provide me with various opportunities ranging from the creation and development of community health projects, to contributing to the modification of current health policies. I will seize the opportunity to work with professionals from all occupations including educators, clinicians, executives, and I will become an advocate and a credible voice for positive change through a better understanding of the healthcare system that is in place

I appreciated the opportunity to volunteer at my local dentist office and was fond of helping the hygienist prepare her tools, suctioning patients’ mouths, helping with periodontal charting, and sterilizing tools along with the equipment after each patient. I also took joy in communicating with the patients about my schooling and how I hope to become a dental hygienist. Many of the patients were generous and wished me luck in my future. The dentist of the clinic, Paul A. Sensor, enjoyed having me and said to update him about my future endeavors. After job shadowing Stephanie Korth and learning more about being a dental hygienist, it changed the way I viewed going to the dentist. She was a great example for me and she ensured me that this was the job for me. When I came to the Iowa Central Dental Hygiene Clinic, I found myself asking the student hygienist questions about the process of the examination that I wouldn’t have known about before. I see this profession in my future knowing I want to impact people’s health in a positive way. I also want a job that is going to challenge me to reach my full

Their aspirations of being dentist, veterinarians, nutritious, etc. were being hindered by financial obligations outside of school. Some of the students are parents while others had to care for siblings causing them to have to work to offset the expense. This huge hurdle of funding for these students has now lessened with the help of the Cheyney Foundation.

During my time there I pursued a bachelor's degree in Psychology and Sociology. Both of these social sciences provided me a comprehensive understanding of individuals behavior, as well as societal influences. Although, these majors share their differences, their collective goal is to improve people’s lives and work towards the betterment of society. Since a career in dental hygienist involves working directly with patients, the skills I learned through my major are transferable to this environment. Therefore making this career a fulfilling and rewarding opportunity to

I knew college was going to change me in many ways. Yet, after my family and I restructured our collective and individual emotional reactivity over the three years that I was away at school, I believed my work in that department was done. I thought transiting into college was difficult, however, I found myself once again unprepared for the aftershock that rocked my family once I return from school. I left college a strong, independent, mature, and differentiated person, or at least I kind of did.

For this last reflection, I will be summarizing my entire internship experience. I will be addressing a wide array of topics in this reflection starting with what this internship has taught me about my strengths and weakness in health-related situations and communication within health settings. This topic will also include what I have learned about myself. Next, I will convey one thing I learned at Comfort Dental that I would never have learned in the classroom. Next, I will discuss how working at a dental office as reaffirmed my choice of choosing to be a dentist as a professional career. Then, I will convey how I will answer questions in an interview asking about how this internship prepared me for my future and how being a Health Administration and policy major has prepared me for a future in dental care. Next, I will discuss the most, challenging and the best aspect of my internship. Lastly, I will convey the one “golden nugget” I will take away for this internship that will be useful in my future.

I understand that my undergrad GPA is less than ideal. Growing up as the only child, I was spoiled and consequently took advantage of the situation becoming a careless and lazy individual, neglecting the needs of others, preferring an easy life, and not seeing the value of having an education. As I grew older, I realized that there was no substance in continuing to live this way. As a member of society, I felt the need to be a contributing member and to do something valuable so that life will start to have a purpose and meaning. Dentistry allows me to achieve this goal. I think every student who applies to a health related profession is doing so because their goal, ultimately, is to help others. I desire most to be a dentist because of the

Attending the University of Georgia’s School of Public Health will allow me to achieve my goals of furthering my public health education through the coursework offered as part of its M.P.H program. I have

My long term goals include advancing my knowledge in the public health field and to use my newly acquired skills to impact the community in a positive way. I intend to accomplish this by becoming a health care administrator or working at an institution focused on education and disease prevention. I hope to use my research and educational background to monitor health hazards and find solutions for them. Enrolling in the Masters in Public Health program at Emory University Rollins School of Public Health will provide me with the tools necessary to succeed in achieving this

My Public Health Practicum course at the University of California Irvine (UCI) and my mission experience to South America further propelled me toward a career in public health. In the final year of my undergraduate degree, I took my Public Health Practicum course, which was a requirement to