Prompt: Explain your interest in the major you selected and describe how you have recently explored or developed this interest inside and/or outside the classroom. You may also explain how this major relates to your future career goals.
I knew about the power of conventional medical healing before I fully understood medicine as a professional industry with an array of specialists. With time, I learnt more and got to understand its roots and possible future advancements, igniting my passion to become a surgeon. Other than the Biochemistry aspect, my career aspirations are also influenced and informed by personal, religious, social and cultural experiences. Growing up in Nepal, for example, I witnessed the correlation between poverty and health complications. The spillover effect left a horrific picture of disease and pestilence outbreaks that need more than good hospitals to fix. Over 10% of the 13.4 million women in Nepal suffer gender discrimination as a result of uterine prolapse. This is a painful medical condition that occurs when the uterine walls collapse yet these women can't access quality healthcare because of cultural and economic challenges. My father lives with the consequences of the poor health standards in Nepal since he has polio, a condition that could have been averted by a couple of drops of vaccine in his childhood. When we moved to the U.S., both of my parents got a job at Walmart and I joined Waukee High School, where my academic activities hinge on my medical career aspirations as a final year student. I am currently taking classes like AP Biology and Chemistry to help me pursue my goal. The urge to help solve the problem such as that of the Nepalese women and to help prevent my father's condition from happening to another person anywhere in the world has inspired me to strive for proficiency in Biochemistry. I however major in Biochemistry because it forms the basis of how biology and chemistry relate and how the relation can be exploited to find sustainable innovative solutions to surgery related medical problems.
I knew about the power of conventional medical healing before I fully understood medicine as a professional industry with an array of specialists. With time, I learnt more and got to understand its roots and possible future advancements, igniting my passion to become a surgeon. Other than the Biochemistry aspect, my career aspirations are also influenced and informed by personal, religious, social and cultural experiences. Growing up in Nepal, for example, I witnessed the correlation between poverty and health complications. The spillover effect left a horrific picture of disease and pestilence outbreaks that need more than good hospitals to fix. Over 10% of the 13.4 million women in Nepal suffer gender discrimination as a result of uterine prolapse. This is a painful medical condition that occurs when the uterine walls collapse yet these women can't access quality healthcare because of cultural and economic challenges. My father lives with the consequences of the poor health standards in Nepal since he has polio, a condition that could have been averted by a couple of drops of vaccine in his childhood. When we moved to the U.S., both of my parents got a job at Walmart and I joined Waukee High School, where my academic activities hinge on my medical career aspirations as a final year student. I am currently taking classes like AP Biology and Chemistry to help me pursue my goal. The urge to help solve the problem such as that of the Nepalese women and to help prevent my father's condition from happening to another person anywhere in the world has inspired me to strive for proficiency in Biochemistry. I however major in Biochemistry because it forms the basis of how biology and chemistry relate and how the relation can be exploited to find sustainable innovative solutions to surgery related medical problems.
