Hey guys!
Before any reading, I want to thank you for visiting this thread. Essay composition is definitely not my forte and just knowing that there are people out there who are willing to spend their time to help me gives me confidence. So thank you.
Tell us about a personal quality, talent, accomplishment, contribution or experience that is important to you. What about this quality or accomplishment makes you proud, and how does it relate to the person you are?
While volunteering at St. Paul's Towers retirement home, an elderly professor taught me the most important lesson of my life. Amazingly, he communicated with me without words because Alzheimer's had severed his connections with reality long ago. As I stared into the sleep-filled eyes of the former professor of sociology at the University of Maine, Orono, words failed to describe the sadness and regret that I felt, regret that the professor could no longer share his vast knowledge with eager students like me. But I also felt a strange yet familiar restlessness that I later identified as intense curiosity. The sheer unfairness of Alzheimer's fickle decision to rob a scholar's great and contributive mind irked me like a splinter that is too small to remove.
When school resumed, it became difficult to continue with my previous schedule but I continued to study Alzheimer's when I could find the time. Soon, I realized that my knowledge was insufficient to understand the complex biological processes and phenomenon that cause dementia and other mental diseases and this bothered me above all others. But I also felt a sense of satisfaction that stemmed from being overwhelmed with information that I don't understand; I feel a calm sensation when I know that there is so much more to enjoy, so much more to look forward to. It's almost like waiting for the sequel to an excellent novel to be released. I can confidently say that my curiosity is the greatest motivation behind my academic and extracurricular pursuits, more than peer and parent pressure and definitely more than the letter grades on a transcript. More than any other trait I possess, my curiosity defines me and I am fiercely proud of it.
Thank you for your help.
Before any reading, I want to thank you for visiting this thread. Essay composition is definitely not my forte and just knowing that there are people out there who are willing to spend their time to help me gives me confidence. So thank you.
Tell us about a personal quality, talent, accomplishment, contribution or experience that is important to you. What about this quality or accomplishment makes you proud, and how does it relate to the person you are?
While volunteering at St. Paul's Towers retirement home, an elderly professor taught me the most important lesson of my life. Amazingly, he communicated with me without words because Alzheimer's had severed his connections with reality long ago. As I stared into the sleep-filled eyes of the former professor of sociology at the University of Maine, Orono, words failed to describe the sadness and regret that I felt, regret that the professor could no longer share his vast knowledge with eager students like me. But I also felt a strange yet familiar restlessness that I later identified as intense curiosity. The sheer unfairness of Alzheimer's fickle decision to rob a scholar's great and contributive mind irked me like a splinter that is too small to remove.
When school resumed, it became difficult to continue with my previous schedule but I continued to study Alzheimer's when I could find the time. Soon, I realized that my knowledge was insufficient to understand the complex biological processes and phenomenon that cause dementia and other mental diseases and this bothered me above all others. But I also felt a sense of satisfaction that stemmed from being overwhelmed with information that I don't understand; I feel a calm sensation when I know that there is so much more to enjoy, so much more to look forward to. It's almost like waiting for the sequel to an excellent novel to be released. I can confidently say that my curiosity is the greatest motivation behind my academic and extracurricular pursuits, more than peer and parent pressure and definitely more than the letter grades on a transcript. More than any other trait I possess, my curiosity defines me and I am fiercely proud of it.
Thank you for your help.
