What led you to choose the area of interest you listed in the app for Mich...
I aspire to wield the surgical knife, don the long white coat, and work the grueling hours one day. However, it was not always this way.
At first, I had detested the role of a surgeon. Due to my longing to become an individual, the medical field that my mother had often praised and practiced was discarded by me. I instead sought to argue in a court of law, to travel to obscure countries, and to educate students. Cutting open strangely deranged people was not the profession of my choice. The benefits of medicine were ambiguous. I had witnessed my mother struggle to achieve a degree in the subject only to see her irregular working hours and exhausted appearance when she gets home.
Out of curiosity, I agreed to a volunteer position at the University of Michigan hospital as a piano player. Every week I would exhibit a selection of pieces that would sooth the listeners. I soon took it on as my responsibility to make my audience feel refreshed and restored by my music. I wanted to cure them of their diseases and ailments. After these sessions I would walk around the hospital, exploring the large buildings and examining the doctors who walked by. I saw each member of the hospital actively using their areas of expertise to take care of numerous patients everyday. I realized that I could do so much more through practicing medicine.
Music can relieve stress and supply courage. However, music cannot treat cancer, and it cannot transplant organs, medicine can though. This is why I choose to study Cell and Molecular Biology and Biomedical Engineering. I believe that this field of study will advance me into the medical world, and will realize my goal of becoming a surgeon.
Boxin Zhou
Do I have to justify my specific choice to become a surgeon also?
Advice would be appreciated. I also want to try to turn this essay into something that answers how my environment has shaped my future plans.
I aspire to wield the surgical knife, don the long white coat, and work the grueling hours one day. However, it was not always this way.
At first, I had detested the role of a surgeon. Due to my longing to become an individual, the medical field that my mother had often praised and practiced was discarded by me. I instead sought to argue in a court of law, to travel to obscure countries, and to educate students. Cutting open strangely deranged people was not the profession of my choice. The benefits of medicine were ambiguous. I had witnessed my mother struggle to achieve a degree in the subject only to see her irregular working hours and exhausted appearance when she gets home.
Out of curiosity, I agreed to a volunteer position at the University of Michigan hospital as a piano player. Every week I would exhibit a selection of pieces that would sooth the listeners. I soon took it on as my responsibility to make my audience feel refreshed and restored by my music. I wanted to cure them of their diseases and ailments. After these sessions I would walk around the hospital, exploring the large buildings and examining the doctors who walked by. I saw each member of the hospital actively using their areas of expertise to take care of numerous patients everyday. I realized that I could do so much more through practicing medicine.
Music can relieve stress and supply courage. However, music cannot treat cancer, and it cannot transplant organs, medicine can though. This is why I choose to study Cell and Molecular Biology and Biomedical Engineering. I believe that this field of study will advance me into the medical world, and will realize my goal of becoming a surgeon.
Boxin Zhou
Do I have to justify my specific choice to become a surgeon also?
Advice would be appreciated. I also want to try to turn this essay into something that answers how my environment has shaped my future plans.
