Essays / Personal Statement (academic achievements, personal interests, life experiences) [3]

A Personal Statement regarding how your academic achievements, personal interests, life experiences have helped prepare you to succeed academically and to be an active member of the UC community.

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Undergraduate / Describe your short and long-term goals (working as a cardiologist). Related? [3]

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In life, every human being has an ambition; ambitions that are most times set extremely high and sometimes low to a point the individual can achieve it. I have always set my ambition as high as it could ever be.

All my life, I have had different ambitions one being a teacher, architecture and another being a lawyer. But my goal has becoming a cardiologist. My mother has heart issues but she has never had a heart attack. Her doctor that part of her heart is swollen and any tension or constant thinking or anything could trigger her to die. My desire to become a cardiologist is because of my mother. It upsets me to see people enduring heart diseases. I aspire to take care and better the wellbeing of people as many people with heart diseases as much as I can. I plan to major in nursing first and earn my Bachelors. I hope to acquire a job as a nurse and use the money I earn to provide for myself through medical school to become a cardiologist.

In order to achieve my long term goal, I plan to learn as much as I can to be prepared for college and I plan to graduate from high school with cum laude and attend a university that will help me achieve my goal. Another accomplishment that can help me achieve my goal is working towards receiving scholarships so I can afford my education. If I achieve these short-term goals, I will be able to achieve my long term goals of working as a cardiologist and making a positive contribution to people all over the world.

Undergraduate / Math, continuous learning - Discuss the subjects you have excelled. [2]

Discuss the subjects in which you excel or have excelled. To what factor do you attribute your success?

Like every human being, there are certain thing in this life, which means a lot to us and makes us feel distinct from other people. For me Lydia kronmaah, math and science are what make me feel special. The reasons why I like these subjects is due to the following reasons, its interesting aspect, its roles it plays in the day-to-day life of us and finally because it is a non ending study.

Math and science, especially chemistry, have always been of my greatest subjects since I was I child. However as its interest took a tremendous tome and hard work to accomplish. My dream of being a nurse and perhaps a medical doctor is what led me to gaining much interest in the subject. Even though, in Ghana, the educational system is not as strong and firm as it is here, I still got attracted to it. My interest generated when, I was introduced to basic math and some pretty interesting fact about the origination of some math formulae, which I found really fascinating. In chemistry however, I became very acquainted to it through my first lab and chemical mixture. This lab experience made me read more about chemistry and enabled me why some things behave in certain way and why some things act as they are. This continuous seeking of knowledge got me attracted and very involved in the subject.

Secondly, I like these subjects, basically because of their important role they play in the daily live of each and every individual here on earth. Through math, we can figure and know how to construct and calculate things which are beneficial to our environment and ourselves. Math like chemistry play a significant role in the lives of us. The making of medicine and other vital drugs for the well being of mankind is due to the knowledge of math and chemistry. The counting of the days and the knowing of the rotations of the earth and seasons are all due to the calculations of math. These thing are what draws me very close to math and chemistry.

Finally, I like math and chemistry because of its non- ending study. In other subjects you study as far as others have gone before you, and there is apparently nothing more to know; but in the mathematical and chemistry pursuit, there is continual food for discovery and wonder. Due to this reason I am always curious to know what is going on out there and what new discoveries have been found and what is hiding out there, which I could discover for myself. A mathematical formulae like Newton's laws are laws which are constantly been used in daily life.

Despite the fact that I like math and chemistry doesn't actually mean that, I pay less attention to the other subjects. Every subject to me is very important and play vital roles in our lives. But I have taken math and chemistry to be my subjects of interest primarily because of their interesting aspect, their vital role in life and the curiosity behind its study.

Undergraduate / GMSP. My passion for history [4]

Discuss the subjects with which you had difficulty. What factors do you believe contributed to your difficulties? How have you dealt with them so they will not cause problems for you again? In what areas have you experienced with the greatest improvement? What problem areas remain?

History has always been a course in which I have struggled with the most. It was never an intriguing for me. "Why are we studying events that we are never going to use in our life"? I could not perceive the importance of learning history.

History was a stressful and uninteresting subject. I mean the history of man's evolution, the creation of the universe, the star s, and the solar system was a bit fascinating to me. I asked myself "how can we as human beings benefit our current life by reading and studying about elapsed European events, colonialism, and how things became what they are. History I would say is a trial of the reminiscence. It is a cause of enormous stress to students, stress which has pushed many students to the wall. Since I didn't find history interesting, I struggled through my classes. I would always get exhausted and frustrated trying study for my history exams and quizzes.

Due to my lack of enthusiasm is my classes I struggled wit my classes until I my freshmen year. Dr. Hills was my history teacher. She was tough but she had a real passion towards history. As time went by her passion rubbed off on her students including me. Those of us who hated history started liking it and those liked it started loving it. She remained us that history was connected and without the past there would not be any future. She helped me make sense of history by making me understand that the past makes the future and makes us who we are, how personally history applies to me and that they were people just like me. As I learn more and more about the history of the United States, the world, the problems, how situations were recognized, violence, poverty and how most problems where dealt with. Through her I came to realize the importance of the past. It changed my whole reaction towards history to affection.

My realization developed into enthusiasm for the subject I detested. Now, whenever I find myself unconcerned toward a subject, I remember to find the importance of the subject to me and how helpful it will be to better at it. I cannot find the time to learn more about the people who made the past what it is and the future what is going to be. Finding the time to learn everything about history is now my one predicament.

Undergraduate / GMSP steps toward future ambitions [3]

Describe your short and long-term goals. Are some of them related? Which are priorities?

I always imagine my future and I sometimes ask myself "when will it come?" It can be today, tomorrow, next week, next month or next year. I have innumerable ambitions that will better me as an individual. I know that my future goals seem distant, but I have high ambitions for myself. My being a positive person, never backing down and achieving everything at all cost are the main reasons why I think I will be able to fulfill my future goals. Helmut Schmidt said that, "whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps". I have a lot of short term goals that will contribute to my long term goal.

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Undergraduate / Ji was assaulted by another student; GMSP unfair situation [2]

Briefly describe a situation in which you thought you or others were treated unfairly or were not given an opportunity you thought you deserved. Why do you think this happened? How did you respond? Did the situation improve as a result of your response? Explain why you thought the situation was unfair, why you thought your way of responding would make a difference and whether it did.

Ji kwang was a new south Korean student who had just arrived in the school not long ago. A very friendly fellow but his inability to speak the English language fluently made communication difficult for him. This deficiency of his was the point guard for other student to take advantage of him and say foul word against him.

Even though Ji was a friendly person, he tended to have a very quick and sharp temper. Anything he heard about him created rage and anger in him. Due to this, he was often seen at the principals headquarters especially with disciplinary issues. However wrong he might have been in, handling issues concerning race, but there was an issue which I think was treated unjustly by the principle.

It all happened one day when classes was in progress and Ji told me he was going to use the was room. He went to the bathroom and on his way back another student assaulted him. However, he took no action concerning the assault until the student kept assaulting him. Ji then punched the student because he felt the student had assaulted him for too long. The issue was reported to the principal and both students were examined in order to find who was at fault.

The principal at the end of the examination thought that Ji was at fault and should be suspended for about a week or two. The culprit, however was left unpunished. This issue I think was an unjust judgment by the principle. There fore I believe Ji did not deserve to be punished because he wasn't the cause of the fight. At least if he was suspended, the culprit himself was also subjected to some type of punishment, if not suspended.

Ji was suspended basically because he had had previous disciplinary issues with the school. This disciplinary issues which he has had with the school placed him at the disadvantageous position therefore, he was the person who was most subject to receiving a punishment. Moreover punching another student in the face wasn't a good sign or behavior of dealing with an assault. As a result to this, I appealed to the principal about the decision he made, portraying Ji kwang as the victim and not the culprit, but all my work trying to help Ji get out of the suspension didn't pay off. The principle insisted that Ji was the one at fault.

However due to his suspension for two weeks, Ji came to school with an entirely new personality. He would rather not talk in order to prevent him from not causing any further problems. The students also ceased provoking him to ensue further problems with the principal and the school's administration. However the situation might seem or be its some thing we should recognize in society that and unjust law is no law at all.