Essay For College Application

With the growth, of technology the size of it seems to decrease. Ever since I could remember I've been fascinated with engineering. I wonder “how do TV screens light up?”, “how do wires, metal, and batteries power electronics?”. With these questions coming and going, over the years I have had a lot of toys and other larger pieces of electronics taken apart and never put together. My interests in Biomedical Nanotechnology have developed from different interests of mine throughout high school and childhood. In my sophomore year, I began to have an appreciation for geometry, which later turned into a passion for mathematics as a whole. All of a the sudden, I began to see the world through a mathematical lens. Also in my sophomore year, I

Along with this lab and the cardiovascular unit, I decided I wanted to pursue a career as a cardiovascular surgeon, which were my first steps to later lead me in a Biomedical Engineering path. During the summer going into junior year, I came across a documentary about what I would later know to be “Quantum Mechanics” which I did not understand all of, however, needless to say, I still found it interesting. Later, that summer, I found a playlist on YouTube, by MIT, on quantum mechanics and watched the lectures over the course of the summer. It was after watching these videos when my interests in engineering went from a large scale to what makes everything, particles. With my interest in biology, I was influenced to take anatomy and physiology as a junior. In anatomy and physiology, my interest in a medical career grew stronger throughout the year, however, I no longer was interested in becoming a doctor who would only be able to help one patient at a time, but rather I wanted the ability to change many people at once. At first, I had no idea how I could reach this goal, but in addition to taking anatomy and physiology in my junior year, I also took two other science courses, chemistry, and a forensic

I knew I had a passion for engineering, biology, mathematics, quantum mechanics, chemistry, and medicine. Towards the end of summer, as I was looking at colleges when I found out about Biomedical Engineering. Upon further research into this program, I knew this area of study would enable me to achieve my goals of helping many people at the same time, along with exploring my passion. The more I looked into Biomedical Engineering, the more I found the possibilities to make already existing medicine even safer and more accessible to more individuals throughout the world, but also develop new ways of treating patients. The reason behind why I would like to study Biomedical Nanotechnology rather than the traditional Biomedical Engineering goes back to the first sentence of this writing. With technology developing in ways never thought possible, the limits of technology are still being pushed to the limits, but also technology needs to be smaller for more sophisticated tasks. My goals as a part of the Biomedical Nanoscale Technology team would be to develop microscope technologies that could be inserted into the human body to test for dozens of harmful illnesses and also to replace already harmed areas, such as