Graduate School Application Essay

Ever since I was a young child, I enjoyed structure and searched for it in the midst of chaos found I life. Being an only child, I was not able to rebel against my parents and was under constant surveillance. However, as I grew up and entered my teenage years, my parents viewed my choices as rebellious ones. They felt I fell out of their structure and began to build my own and become my own person. Growing up with this structure also lead me to search for it in my academics. I always strived to obtain as much knowledge as possible because I knew that I would be able to handle the challenge. While in high school, I took a variety of different subjects and discovered a particular interest in science, biology specifically. As I fully began to

Discovering the right tools to teach young children disciplined martial arts was not easy. While learning these skills, I developed a bond with my students and my interest for how children operate was sparked. I continued to volunteer twice a week at my dojo for five years and my bond with those students only grew. To further my interest in interacting with children, I sought more opportunities to be around children. in the future, I was offered a teaching job at my childhood dance studio. The owner informed that me that I would be teaching girls ages 5-18. Not only did I take this job very seriously, but I also used it to further develop my desire to help children and young adults. I still teach these girls, and as I get older and learn more, my interest to learn about children grows and expands. When a baby was born into my family was when my love and interest for infants blossomed. This baby was not only taken away from her parents at birth, but she also was facing great genetic odds for mental disabilities. I knew that she was going to have a hard life and I made it important to be around her as much as possible so that she could too, grow up with some stability and foundation. This was the first time I was presented with an opportunity to be around an infant for an extended period of time, and I used it as a

I want to continue my education and excitement to learn more to support my future goals. These goals mostly include biology and infants. By attending graduate school, and potentially medical school, I will be educated sufficiently to care for infants and young children mentally and physically. I look forward to using my previous scientific knowledge to dive deeper into biology and learn more. It is my goal to be able to work with infants in a hospital and to do so, I will need to be able to also deal work patiently with their parents. Through overcoming a difficult past, I have the ability to manage and help others view situations in a different manner than how they are. Finding a way to have my parents understand my sexuality was difficult, but doable and finesse is often beneficial. Visually is a learning tactic that best suites me and I often times I struggle learning directly from a text book but look forward to improve this with more practice. I often take time to sort out my thoughts and structure them when trying to solve a problem, such as a research question. In graduate school, I plan to decrease my time planning and increase my time working on the question. I look forward to increasing my public speaking skills and abilities as well in a graduate program because I often times am nervous with presentations. I want to be able to support my future goals of working with infants and children in the