Undergraduate / 'Going back to Thailand' Issue of Importance Essay for Biomedical Engineering at UT [3]

Choose an issue of importance to you-the issue could be personal, school related, local, political, or international in scope-and write an essay in which you explain the significance of that issue to yourself, your family, your community, or your generation.

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My grammar is not good at all but please help me.

A smile is the sign of happiness. Being able to see other people's smiles makes me happy. It makes me want to keep those smiles forever. However, it is impossible, for something especially expression to be everlasting. Sickness and sadness always deprive human from happiness. I just hope, at least, to make those smiles stay as long as they could be.

It does not matter who am I but what does matter is why I am here. I do not want to live on this earth aimlessly. I want to develop myself in both knowledge and experience, so that I can use them to help other people. I have to be able to stand with my own legs first, in order to help them sufficiently.

Three years ago, I lived in a small town in Thailand where the biggest hospital is always crowded. As I walked in, I saw several lines of patients from each diagnostic room. Because the hospital does not have enough equipments and technology, therefore, the patients have to wait in line for diagnostic test. Some people come to hospital at six o'clock in the morning, so that they can see the doctor as soon as possible when the office hour is eight o'clock. Hospital became my second home since I had to visit there every month for blood checking after I knew I had severe anemia. By seeing how insufficient of particular equipment to cure or diagnose become problems, I think I have to do something. If one has to be diagnosed immediately, it took him two hours to get to big hospital in a large city. He might get worse or, even died before he gets there. Why lower class can't get the same chance of healthcare as the middle and upper class do? Money becomes an issue, when it comes to medical equipments and medicine. I want to find an alternative way to lower the cost of medical machine. I want to invent some medical equipment to cure and help patients who suffer from incurable disease. At least, I want to keep their smiles from pain and sickness.

I volunteered at Seton Medical Williamson Center over summer 2010 and 2011. Delivering flowers to each patient's room is a wonderful experience for me. I love to talk to the patients and cheer them up. However, when I saw some of them laid down on bed unconsciously, I want to help them. How can I help them? Even though I do not have any knowledge about medicine to cure the disease, I can help restocking some basic medical tools in their cabinets and drawers. I can deliver happiness to them with flowers and smile.

After I gain knowledge about medical equipments and their structures, and experience the engineering inside them. I want to use my knowledge to develop and find an alternative way to lower the cost of medical equipment. If I gain enough knowledge and experience, I would like to go back to Thailand and teach other people who interested in this field. By that time, I will be able to stand with my own legs and help others to stand on theirs.

Undergraduate / 'Imagination Reality' - ApplyTexas Essay [3]

Write an essay in which you tell us about someone who has made an impact on your life and explain how and why this person is important to you.

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Imagination Reality

One Litre of Tears is a Japanese television series that guides me to live with purpose. As a seven-grader who just entered the best secondary school in Nakhonsawan, Thailand, I can say that I did not have many responsibilities to do. My focus was only on studying and household chores. I had never thought about my future yet. However, a year later, I had a chance to watch this series. It is based on a true story of Kito Aya. Even though I only sensed her with her words through her diary, she is truly my inspiration to become the person I am today. After I had watched it, I searched for her diary in both Thai and English translation. I read her words and absorbed them to my brain. I did researches on this disease and other brain disorders. She had changed my life with her ability to write.

Kito Aya has an incurable Spinocerebellar Degeneration Disease. She fought with this disease, since the age of 14, for 12 years and had never given up. One of her powerful word that engraves in my heart is "No matter how little the matter is. I want to become a useful person to others." With her disease, she lost the ability to walk, talk, and swallow. All of her physical strengths are gone but she still had an encouragement in her mind. She wrote her diary with difficulty because she lost the ability to control her body. She once stated in her diary that she felt her body does not belong to her. I wanted to find the way to cure this disease, so that other people would not suffer like Aya did.

By ninth grade, the highest class of lower secondary school, I had to choose my road of life. I can continue with this school or go to somewhere else. In February 2009, I was accepted in a good scientific-field school with some scholarships. However, I had another option, coming to the United States of America. I chose the second one because I realized how much development of science and technology America has. I always have Kito Aya's word in my mind and I even want to become a neurologist. On the other hands, with my experience with medical technology in Thailand, I also want to invent the efficient medical equipment with lower cost to help people in third world country. In my opinion, I can do these two things together by inventing the equipment to cure this and other disease.

"I want to be like the air. The good-hearted person whose kindness overflows and people realize how important she was to them, once she is gone. I want to be that kind of person." I wanted to tell Kito Aya that she achieved her dream already because she tried very hard to live on and encourage others.

She, after all, is my inspiration to live on with encouragement. I have never forgotten my goal to prevent people from sickness. Sickness and sadness deprive humans from happiness. I want to keep smile, peace and happiness of people forever. I know deeply that it is impossible but I want to try to make those smiles stay as long as they can be. It would be just hope and dream if I did nothing.

I, for at the very least, want try my best, so that I will not be disappointed at myself later. I believe that imagination can become reality if I have faith in myself. I will not give up my dream because it shows that I still have life and freedom.

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I know I have really bad grammar. I don't know that can she be the person who had impacted my life? For me, she really is my inspiration. However, I have never known her personally or even met her. Would it be okay to write this essay on her?

Thank you for reading my essay.
Feel free to comment on it!

Sincerely,
Tipp U.