please review my essay for Rutgers( course food science)
This is the essay prompt
" Please reflect on what you consider to be an important personal experience related to your talents, interests, or commitments. Using this experience, please tell us what you learned about yourself. How will this experience prepare you for success at Rutgers?
"Your experiences shape the person you become and provide insight as to who you want to be in the future"
Ever since I was a very young child, I loved visiting vaccine manufacturing unit żBio Med Private Ltdż where my father works. The microbial world always intrigued and fascinated me.
My interest in science increased as I grew up and this prompted me to take up żintegrated scienceż in high school.
Outside of school, I have been involved in many volunteer/service activities. In June 2013, I became a member of an NGO called żBLG Educational and welfare societyż. I actively participated in various activities organized under the aegis of this NGO. Of all the camps, the food and nutritional support program ż proved to be an eye opening experience for me. While working in the food camp, I noticed that the majority of children were nutritionally deficient and suffered from contagious diseases like diarrhea, typhoid fever. I shared these observations with my supervisor and suggested that children should be given a vitamin rich balanced diet. Moreover, based on my understanding on vaccine preventable diseases I suggested that the food handlers should be immunized against typhoid and that teaching sessions on the importance of being hygienic should be conducted so as to prevent the transmission of contagious diseases. I realized that there was a major room for improvement in food preparation, food nutrition and food security
In school, I selected microbiology and food adulteration as my investigatory projects so that I could learn how to conduct food adulteration tests and do hands on training in basic microbiology. After the research, I figured out the relation between food and microbiology. Looking at my keen interest in food microbiology my school teacher organized a field trip to a nearby institute, "SHRIRAM INSTITUTE FOR INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH"where gamma irradiation technique is used to reduce bio-burden and increase shelf life of spices and grains.
Next, I organized another field trip to a small scale food industry," Sunder Cuisine Private Ltd ", which manufactures and markets various types of bread. I observed the process of bread manufacturing, watched the working of the machines and understood the various licensing procedures. I was extremely touched by the fact that the company employed the differently-able people. This exposure helped me in understanding how an industry works in reality.
Because I know about the fact that India is the second largest producer of food in the world, but its share of world's exports is very due to less food storage facilities, new and improved food processing techniques I seriously wish to do something to improve this sad situation. Also ,food crisis is a problem the whole world is facing and I believe the need of the hour is to do some serious research and development to solve the problem. My experiences, interest, training and the goal of helping people has been significant in deciding that I want to study "FOOD SCIENCE"
The lessons and experiences I have had in India are, I believe, the most valuable things I'll bring to Rutgers. I know my belief in the need to help others will make me an asset to the Rutgers community. While taking the advantage of the challenging courses, laboratories and research projects , we will together strive to find solutions to these problems and contribute in the development of society.
This is the essay prompt
" Please reflect on what you consider to be an important personal experience related to your talents, interests, or commitments. Using this experience, please tell us what you learned about yourself. How will this experience prepare you for success at Rutgers?
"Your experiences shape the person you become and provide insight as to who you want to be in the future"
Ever since I was a very young child, I loved visiting vaccine manufacturing unit żBio Med Private Ltdż where my father works. The microbial world always intrigued and fascinated me.
My interest in science increased as I grew up and this prompted me to take up żintegrated scienceż in high school.
Outside of school, I have been involved in many volunteer/service activities. In June 2013, I became a member of an NGO called żBLG Educational and welfare societyż. I actively participated in various activities organized under the aegis of this NGO. Of all the camps, the food and nutritional support program ż proved to be an eye opening experience for me. While working in the food camp, I noticed that the majority of children were nutritionally deficient and suffered from contagious diseases like diarrhea, typhoid fever. I shared these observations with my supervisor and suggested that children should be given a vitamin rich balanced diet. Moreover, based on my understanding on vaccine preventable diseases I suggested that the food handlers should be immunized against typhoid and that teaching sessions on the importance of being hygienic should be conducted so as to prevent the transmission of contagious diseases. I realized that there was a major room for improvement in food preparation, food nutrition and food security
In school, I selected microbiology and food adulteration as my investigatory projects so that I could learn how to conduct food adulteration tests and do hands on training in basic microbiology. After the research, I figured out the relation between food and microbiology. Looking at my keen interest in food microbiology my school teacher organized a field trip to a nearby institute, "SHRIRAM INSTITUTE FOR INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH"where gamma irradiation technique is used to reduce bio-burden and increase shelf life of spices and grains.
Next, I organized another field trip to a small scale food industry," Sunder Cuisine Private Ltd ", which manufactures and markets various types of bread. I observed the process of bread manufacturing, watched the working of the machines and understood the various licensing procedures. I was extremely touched by the fact that the company employed the differently-able people. This exposure helped me in understanding how an industry works in reality.
Because I know about the fact that India is the second largest producer of food in the world, but its share of world's exports is very due to less food storage facilities, new and improved food processing techniques I seriously wish to do something to improve this sad situation. Also ,food crisis is a problem the whole world is facing and I believe the need of the hour is to do some serious research and development to solve the problem. My experiences, interest, training and the goal of helping people has been significant in deciding that I want to study "FOOD SCIENCE"
The lessons and experiences I have had in India are, I believe, the most valuable things I'll bring to Rutgers. I know my belief in the need to help others will make me an asset to the Rutgers community. While taking the advantage of the challenging courses, laboratories and research projects , we will together strive to find solutions to these problems and contribute in the development of society.
