Marine Biology Application Essay

As I take the time to reflect upon all the accomplishments that I have been so very lucky to have achieved, I realize that it’s incredibly difficult to talk about myself. However, it’s important that I display how my past has shaped me as a person. I’m no poet, nor am I a genius, but I have this strong desire to perform to my highest ability at all times. It’s this urge, this appetite that allows me to strive for newer and better things. Ever since I was little, maybe about seven or eight years old, I’ve wanted to study marine biology. Maybe it’s the fact that I was born in Puerto Rico and a lot of my earliest memories are at the beach, maybe it’s my obsession with Shark Week on the Discovery Channel, or maybe it’s just that I think it’s

This stems from the fact that I was a Sunday school teacher for seven years. I know there seems to be no relationship between the two, but throughout my years of teaching, I’ve come to realize that there is nothing more fascinating the mind of a child, especially in regards to their innocence. In fact, there was an incident halfway through my junior year, where I was talking to a kindergartener named Ali and she asked me to help with her subtraction and addition tables on the back of her sheet of paper. Although I am no expert in math, I agreed, mostly because I remember how hard subtraction was for me back in the day. I jokingly said that I wish I was in kindergarten math again and she asked me what math class I was taking. I responded with calculus and she was so impressed, solely based on how complex the word sounded. It’s experiences, such as the one above that leads me to want to research how the human mind works. There’s a part of me that wants to help children in unfortunate situations to maintain the innocence. One way in which I know I can do this, through my biology perspective of course, is to study

I’ve been a dancer since I was three years old. I rarely injure myself, but when I reached the age of thirteen I had tendonitis in my right ankle. I continued to dance and one day fell on damaging the ligaments in my ankle. Now the bone uncontrollably pops out of its socket and it causes quite a bit of pain on a daily basis. I know how difficult it is to live with this and how uncomfortable it is, but I shudder at the fact that some people, very few actually, are born with a similar condition of having extremely flexible ligaments in which your bones can’t stay in place. My best friends, is one of these people. Ever since we were little I’ve seen how much pain she’s in on a daily basis. She can’t sit normally, walk normally, or even stand normally, and yet she still rarely complains. She’s incredible young woman and it’s people like her who drive me to want to study and find solutions for conditions that are solely based on your genetics. I have absolutely no idea where I’ll be heading after I complete my bachelors, but I know it’ll be something