Explain your interest in the major you selected and describe how you have recently explored or developed this interest inside and/or outside the classroom. You may also explain how this major relates to your future career goals.
As I arrived home from school, ready to play, I was greeted by horror and shock I would have never expected. The news made its debut in my early middle school years; my mother was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Obviously, I had no clue what this lengthy name meant, so I researched on my own to discover that it’s an neurological autoimmune disease.
The reason my mother stayed at home bedridden and immobile all made sense to me in that moment. However, my hopes of seeing her improve were in vain since the disease is incurable. My mother’s morale plummeted as she faced the morbid side effects from her medications -- worse than the symptoms of her MS itself. I couldn’t just leave my mother to wallow in her suffering. So I didn’t. I stood by mother’s side every step of the way, even if it meant helping her with the most fundamental of tasks, such as getting around the house. I helped to spread positivity by coming home and telling her stories of what I did at school. Because I knew for that moment, I took away the pain from her MS. From that time on, I knew I wanted to do the same for others. I wanted to help people, to give them happiness and hope. I realized I wanted to enter the medical field.
My aspirations to enter medicine grew as I started learning about physiology in school. Before that, I had been oblivious to the small minutia of structures that play a role in our growth and development. I was also fascinated with technology and how it helped make research at a micro level meaningful. In general, I loved almost all aspects of Biology. I enjoyed learning about everything from the human body to protein synthesis that occurs in the nucleus. From these experiences, I realized majoring in Biology will help encourage my curiosity and deepen my understanding in the subject material.
But most of all, majoring in biology will be the perfect prelude for medical school. My efforts will be channeled to solely learning about the human body and its diseases. Eventually, I hope to reach my goal of becoming a successful physician, treating patients not only with my medical knowledge, but also with my optimism and charisma, just like I did to my very own mother.