Hi guys! I am working on my applications for college. This is the prompt for my essay:
Describe a place or environment where you are perfectly content. What do you do or experience there, and why is it meaningful to you?
Tell me what you think please, and note if I need to edit/add anything! Thanks :)
The medical field enmeshed me into its world of esoteric ideas. It reinforced my dreams of being able to take care of people. At the coming age of young adulthood, I began volunteering at my local hospital. After spending a full year there, my horizons had been broadened, and my interests became focused on surgery. With my determination to see the walls of an operating room, I sought out people to help me make this happen. With success, I began observing surgeries of different specialties. In general, I watched several hernia repairs consisting of inguinal, ventral and umbilical locations, an exploratory laparotomy, a collectomy, several laproscopic cholecystectomies, and multiple laproscopic appendectomies. I was able to palpitate a newly removed gallbladder in the laproscopic cholestectomy, and felt the gallstones within it. When I observed orthopedic surgery, I saw a total knee replacement and learned about a new navigation system a surgeon can use to assist with measuring prosthesis's, and a minimally invasive lami/disectomy when I shadowed neurology. I observed a left carotid endarterectomy while observing a vascular surgery, and watched as the doctor used ultrasound imaging to locate plaque built up in the artery. I pointed out the vocal cords and identified the epiglottis while an anesthesiologist used a Glide Scope to intubate a patient. While in the operating room, I was treated as an equal of the doctors, nurses, PA-C's medical students, and residents. The doctors would address questions towards me just like they would medical students. They taught me how to read CAT scans, review patient charts and answered all of the questions I had. The operating room was a place that everyone knew my name, and would go out of their way to explain operations to me. They made me know that I was one of them, just slightly younger and in high school. This summer experience helped me transfigure my dreams into goals because off all the support I received from the people I look up to.
Describe a place or environment where you are perfectly content. What do you do or experience there, and why is it meaningful to you?
Tell me what you think please, and note if I need to edit/add anything! Thanks :)
The medical field enmeshed me into its world of esoteric ideas. It reinforced my dreams of being able to take care of people. At the coming age of young adulthood, I began volunteering at my local hospital. After spending a full year there, my horizons had been broadened, and my interests became focused on surgery. With my determination to see the walls of an operating room, I sought out people to help me make this happen. With success, I began observing surgeries of different specialties. In general, I watched several hernia repairs consisting of inguinal, ventral and umbilical locations, an exploratory laparotomy, a collectomy, several laproscopic cholecystectomies, and multiple laproscopic appendectomies. I was able to palpitate a newly removed gallbladder in the laproscopic cholestectomy, and felt the gallstones within it. When I observed orthopedic surgery, I saw a total knee replacement and learned about a new navigation system a surgeon can use to assist with measuring prosthesis's, and a minimally invasive lami/disectomy when I shadowed neurology. I observed a left carotid endarterectomy while observing a vascular surgery, and watched as the doctor used ultrasound imaging to locate plaque built up in the artery. I pointed out the vocal cords and identified the epiglottis while an anesthesiologist used a Glide Scope to intubate a patient. While in the operating room, I was treated as an equal of the doctors, nurses, PA-C's medical students, and residents. The doctors would address questions towards me just like they would medical students. They taught me how to read CAT scans, review patient charts and answered all of the questions I had. The operating room was a place that everyone knew my name, and would go out of their way to explain operations to me. They made me know that I was one of them, just slightly younger and in high school. This summer experience helped me transfigure my dreams into goals because off all the support I received from the people I look up to.
