Prompt: 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.



I walked home from school, waiting to unleash my playtime at home, only to be greeted by horror and shock I would have never expected. The news I had been waiting to hear 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, and so I researched on my own to discover that it’s indeed an incurable neurological autoimmune disease. Why my mother stayed at home bedridden and immobile all made sense to me in a flash of a moment. My hopes of seeing my mother improve in her condition were in vain, since the disease is incurable, however she tended to alternate between various medications. 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 spread my positivity by coming back home and filling her with stories of what I did at school. Seeing just a smile grow on my mother’s face meant so much to me, since I knew for that moment I took away the pain from her MS. From that time on I knew, that I wanted to do the same for more people. I wanted to help people, and make them feel happy with hope. I wanted to enter the medical field. 


My aspirations to enter medicine grew, as I started learning about physiology in school. I had been oblivious to the small, minutia of structures that play a role in our growth and development. I was also fascinated with the essence of technology and how it helped make research at a micro level meaningful. In general, I loved almost all aspects of Biology, since I enjoyed learning about everything from the human body to protein synthesis that occurs in the nucleus. My high school endeavors with biology showed me that I needed to major in Biology to expand my knowledge and delve deeper in the realm of biology. 


Majoring in biology, I know that I will grow as a learner, as I gain exposure to the science I love most. I will get to apply my learning from high school years, and even partake in research outside of school to see real life examples. But most of all, majoring in biology will be the perfect prelude to going on to medical school. My interests in the physiological aspect, especially, will be channeled to solely learning about the human body, and its diseases. Eventually, I will reach my end goal of becoming a successful physician, treating patients not only with my medical knowledge but with my optimism and charisma, just like I did to my very own mother.