I Must Help Others :: Medicine College Admissions Essays

I Must Help Others I grew up amidst the poverty and deprivation of the Third World, and for the majority of the twenty yrs that I lived in Jamaica, I lived with a sense of hopelessness. I lived with my m other, one brother, and two sisters in a one-bedroom house without any roof. The day before my final exams, during my original year in high school, we were evicted from the house. I never got another chance to take my exams, and I had to spend the next school year repeating the aforementioned(prenominal) classes. At the age of thirteen, I dropped out of school for about nine months because we were without any resources. During that time out of school I came to realize the value of education. I realized that I could improve the quality of my life and that of the people around me with an education. While in high school my decision to become a gear up became real. As a member of the Hospital Club I visited the Kingston Public Hospital and saw that there were people there that h ad been waiting for years to see a doctor because they could not afford to go elsewhere. I had to do something to help. As I pause to think of the forces that have motivated and influenced me, I remember the harsh experiences that I have endured, and the obstacles I have overcome. But, I would rather focus on the positive experiences that I have had. In doing so, I recall the many times that I was called upon by the headmistress of my high school to teach a mathematics class when the teacher was out ill, including the class in which I was enrolled. I remember the many times that I was voted in as class monitor and I also recall during my senior year being one of the fifteen prefects for the student body, which consisted of approximately 1500 girls. These experiences gave me a sense of pride, dignity, and the will to carry on. I graduated from high school in 1985, and during that summer I worked as a clerk at the Police Forensic Laboratory. My interest in Physics and Biology bl ossomed as I watched the ballistics and other experiments being performed in this Laboratory. These were classes that I had never taken before.