Please help edit my short answers! Any grammatical or conceptual help is appreciated. Thanks!
Short Answers (100 words)
1. If you could change one thing about your community, what would you change and why?
"Did you hear, that kid Srijan, killed himself last night." I was in utter disbelief, that someone I knew and talked to, had decided to take his own life. He caused a wrong-way car accident, taking his own life, along with two others. During adolescence, a time when we are struggling to define ourselves, we are plagued with the pressure to conform, the stress of school, and the struggle to be happy with our identity. My community needs more youth support and counseling to show people the extreme pressure and unhappiness youths today feel and help those silent strugglers.
2. What is an intellectual concept that you find stimulating and what does it tell us about you?
I find psychology very interesting because it helps better my understanding of society and myself. In my Dynamics of Healthcare class, my teacher educated us in some psychological concepts, "Why do people behave the way they do?" I found it intriguing and exciting to draw connections between these abstract concepts and the concrete tangible actions of people as well as applying these concepts to my own life. Psychology is stimulating to me because it gives me insight on the world around me and enables me to grow and form into the person I want to be.
3. Tell us about a significant experience, risk you have taken, or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you.
For as long as I can remember, I've viewed my relatives as selfish, immoral people. The reason? Every single one has refused to donate my mom the kidney she so desperately needs to survive. It should be an obvious and selfless choice. But for them, the need to self-persevere surpasses all. Maybe it is just how divergent our cultures have become, but I believe that family is defined by the lengths we would go for each other. I have tried to convince them that doing this is extremely low risk. Their narrow-mindedness has caused them to fail to understand me.
Short Answers (100 words)
1. If you could change one thing about your community, what would you change and why?
"Did you hear, that kid Srijan, killed himself last night." I was in utter disbelief, that someone I knew and talked to, had decided to take his own life. He caused a wrong-way car accident, taking his own life, along with two others. During adolescence, a time when we are struggling to define ourselves, we are plagued with the pressure to conform, the stress of school, and the struggle to be happy with our identity. My community needs more youth support and counseling to show people the extreme pressure and unhappiness youths today feel and help those silent strugglers.
2. What is an intellectual concept that you find stimulating and what does it tell us about you?
I find psychology very interesting because it helps better my understanding of society and myself. In my Dynamics of Healthcare class, my teacher educated us in some psychological concepts, "Why do people behave the way they do?" I found it intriguing and exciting to draw connections between these abstract concepts and the concrete tangible actions of people as well as applying these concepts to my own life. Psychology is stimulating to me because it gives me insight on the world around me and enables me to grow and form into the person I want to be.
3. Tell us about a significant experience, risk you have taken, or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you.
For as long as I can remember, I've viewed my relatives as selfish, immoral people. The reason? Every single one has refused to donate my mom the kidney she so desperately needs to survive. It should be an obvious and selfless choice. But for them, the need to self-persevere surpasses all. Maybe it is just how divergent our cultures have become, but I believe that family is defined by the lengths we would go for each other. I have tried to convince them that doing this is extremely low risk. Their narrow-mindedness has caused them to fail to understand me.
