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May 28, 2009
Scholarship / Scholarship Essay: Graduate Education in Chemical Engineering [7]
Please use this section to summarise your financial situation; please explain why you wish to study your chosen course, how this relates to your career ambition and why you would be unable to take up your place without financial assistance. Continue on a separate sheet if necessary, but do not exceed 500 words
I wish to pursue my graduate studies at XXX (university name) - Your most esteemed institution, as I believe that a Masters degree will help me realize my ultimate goal, which is to develop myself as a well trained chemical engineer and launch a career into the oil and gas industry.
My interest in sciences stemmed from my days in the local high school, where 90% of the students receded from the sciences - it was perceived as a "no go area"; extra-challenging, no good teachers and less than 20% of those that attempted ever passed. It seemed the way to hell and for me that was the way to go!
In the sciences, engineering appealed to me more than medical sciences due to the love for mathematics and then chemical engineering owing to its versatility and the interest to play in the most essential sector of Nigerian economy - oil and gas.
Masters in advanced chemical engineering will equip me with the required technical skills; enhance my research, analytical and data collection ability while facilitating the goal for a change of career.
I had finished from the university not as the best student. Of course Paul did and though I finished top 10 of about 145 students I knew I had a capacity to do a lot better.
My mum, a nurse, had died in 1998 just while I was preparing for my university exams and Dad, teaching in a high school with a monthly income of about N30, 000 (Thirty thousand naira) , had to support everyone; my elder brother who just got admitted in XXX( another university), myself and three younger ones in the high school. He actually insisted everyone had to go to school.
We understood how hard it was for my Dad and we knew that my siblings had to have the opportunity to come through the high school, so my elder brother and I had to work our ways through the university.
It was a very difficult time for me, missing classes and lab work in most of the evenings and weekends so I can take my sessions in a Lesson center where I taught high school students physics and mathematics.
During my four-month sojourn in XXX(a bank's training institute), the first time in my adult age to engage in a sound academic contest without financial worries, I held the my class and staff spellbound, beating the second best student ( a 2.1/ MSc graduate in Banking and Finance) with the highest grade point difference ever recorded in the school.
With a focus on my career goal, I saved at least 120,000 out of the 170,000 Naira I earned thereafter as my monthly income to enable me pursue a more complete education in my chosen career line.
I had applied and secured an unconditional acceptance in the department during the last session, registered on-line and put together the over 2 million Naira I had saved from my salary and bonuses, with which I applied for a Visa for XXX(name of school), explaining to the embassy that I hoped to pay up my fees in Instalments.
Well, the embassy insisted the financial implication was too much for me not withstanding mediations from some members of XXX(name of school) staff including Dr XXX of the International Office.
I have saved up more money since then, but that still is not enough and having lost one, I have the last opportunity to join XXX(name of school)
I realize that there are cheaper schools but XXX(name of school) seems to me the way to hell!
I can say there's one thing I'm sure of - receiving this scholarship will be the defining moment in my education that will change the very essence of my whole life. Thank you.
The deadline for this essay is tomorrow Friday 29th May...i just discovered this site...please save my soul...thank you.i want it reduced to 500 words as instructed.thank you
Please use this section to summarise your financial situation; please explain why you wish to study your chosen course, how this relates to your career ambition and why you would be unable to take up your place without financial assistance. Continue on a separate sheet if necessary, but do not exceed 500 words
I wish to pursue my graduate studies at XXX (university name) - Your most esteemed institution, as I believe that a Masters degree will help me realize my ultimate goal, which is to develop myself as a well trained chemical engineer and launch a career into the oil and gas industry.
My interest in sciences stemmed from my days in the local high school, where 90% of the students receded from the sciences - it was perceived as a "no go area"; extra-challenging, no good teachers and less than 20% of those that attempted ever passed. It seemed the way to hell and for me that was the way to go!
In the sciences, engineering appealed to me more than medical sciences due to the love for mathematics and then chemical engineering owing to its versatility and the interest to play in the most essential sector of Nigerian economy - oil and gas.
Masters in advanced chemical engineering will equip me with the required technical skills; enhance my research, analytical and data collection ability while facilitating the goal for a change of career.
I had finished from the university not as the best student. Of course Paul did and though I finished top 10 of about 145 students I knew I had a capacity to do a lot better.
My mum, a nurse, had died in 1998 just while I was preparing for my university exams and Dad, teaching in a high school with a monthly income of about N30, 000 (Thirty thousand naira) , had to support everyone; my elder brother who just got admitted in XXX( another university), myself and three younger ones in the high school. He actually insisted everyone had to go to school.
We understood how hard it was for my Dad and we knew that my siblings had to have the opportunity to come through the high school, so my elder brother and I had to work our ways through the university.
It was a very difficult time for me, missing classes and lab work in most of the evenings and weekends so I can take my sessions in a Lesson center where I taught high school students physics and mathematics.
During my four-month sojourn in XXX(a bank's training institute), the first time in my adult age to engage in a sound academic contest without financial worries, I held the my class and staff spellbound, beating the second best student ( a 2.1/ MSc graduate in Banking and Finance) with the highest grade point difference ever recorded in the school.
With a focus on my career goal, I saved at least 120,000 out of the 170,000 Naira I earned thereafter as my monthly income to enable me pursue a more complete education in my chosen career line.
I had applied and secured an unconditional acceptance in the department during the last session, registered on-line and put together the over 2 million Naira I had saved from my salary and bonuses, with which I applied for a Visa for XXX(name of school), explaining to the embassy that I hoped to pay up my fees in Instalments.
Well, the embassy insisted the financial implication was too much for me not withstanding mediations from some members of XXX(name of school) staff including Dr XXX of the International Office.
I have saved up more money since then, but that still is not enough and having lost one, I have the last opportunity to join XXX(name of school)
I realize that there are cheaper schools but XXX(name of school) seems to me the way to hell!
I can say there's one thing I'm sure of - receiving this scholarship will be the defining moment in my education that will change the very essence of my whole life. Thank you.
The deadline for this essay is tomorrow Friday 29th May...i just discovered this site...please save my soul...thank you.i want it reduced to 500 words as instructed.thank you