Reflective Essay: What I Learned At Rutgers University

Please reflect on what you consider to be an important personal experience related to your talents, interests, or commitments. Using this experience, please tell us what you learned about yourself. How will this experience prepare you for success at Rutgers? Carefree, free-spirited, happy, joyous, content with myself, and always smiling; this was what the false reality that I have made myself believe in, in order to help cope with the void that I always had inside. Sometimes, living in a dream felt so good, that I never really wanted to face reality.

This is specifically through my experiences with my mentor, Dr. Winyoo Chowanadisai. Throughout the spring semester, we would speak about my academic and career goals, and my mentor provided great insight to my plans. As a researcher who has many siblings in the medical field, he was able to discuss the pre-med experience with me and provide clarity on how I could explore my career options and prepare for potential applications to graduate or medical school. Navigating my options for after graduation has been stressful for me this year, so a rewarding part of this experience was having a mentor to provide guidance and allow me to explore my options. Aside from the personal opinions that my mentor could provide, my experience in the lab also contributed to my thoughts on how I want to spend my

I am looking forward to growing in knowledge and confidence, as well as completing my field

After this research experience, I hope to have a better understanding of my place in the world of

Throughout my upbringing, my parents and immediate family members were adamant about the prospects afforded by higher education. Above all, they portrayed higher education as the gateway to pursuing a career that I would be passionate about. I took their wisdom and sagacity to heart. I am now looking to advance my academic career through graduate-level scholarship and research focusing on drug discovery and medicinal chemistry.

Such success stories are inspirational to perspective student studying and/or working in a STEM field.

Through this program I hope to learn the fundamentals of community based research, how to advocate for health policy, a most importantly how to educate communities on health. I believe that is the most rewarding thing I can get out of this program. Having the ability, the power, to change someone’s life, by just giving him or her basic health care knowledge is so empowering. Knowing that I changed that life, that because of me hopefully their health will better instead of worsen. Through this program I hope to learn from the community, to learn their experiences, which will allow me to be even more conscious of the disparities they are forced to face, hence causing me to ponder “how can this issue be fixed?”, “what policy can be implemented”?.

As a first-generation college student, I’ve changed the course of my family. I’ve set the educational standards and have made a path for my younger sisters and future family to follow; but if I can raise the bar higher, I will. With the countless opportunities that the PATHS program has to offer, I intend to leverage the experience and the resources provided to further my education by working towards a Masters Degree. This goal of mine won’t come without its challenges, but in the event that I do have the honor to become a PATHS scholar, I intend to use my experience of mentorship and academic sucess that I achieved as an Undergraduate and continue to thrive and further my education. In addition to this, I desire to leverage my experience in the PATHS program to land a job in a Bio-technology company in which my career will bring happiness and financially stability to me and my familyI. Not only this, but I yearn to work for a Bio-tech company whose mission statement is dedicated solely on the advancement of science and not on the economic prosperity that comes from developing scientific breakthroughs.

21 years later, I am proud to be the first member of my family to attend college. The experiences I have gained along my transition from a curious youth in Stockton, California to an undergraduate preparing for graduate school have afforded me a unique outlook on life. My hopes are to contribute my perspective to the diversifying researcher community. Looking back, my motivation to pursue research truly began in Stockton while volunteering with demented elderly individuals at a nursing home.

This has strengthened my conviction that I am making the right decisions for my career path. I have learnt to be a caring individual and I believe that I can achieve more through hard work and effort I put in by attending school, volunteering at the Healthy Living and attending work placements. My voracious interest in science and technology has been a big influence on deciding to pursue a career in

It was at this exact moment when I experienced my watershed moment. It was at this exact moment when I realized how even the things that we hate doing the most, are absolutely necessary to us because they define who we are as a person. I realized the issue with my life was not that I wasn’t intelligent, or that I was untalented at gymnastics, or that I had poor multitasking skills or an inability to cope with stress. My issue was my inability to want to get the best out of the advantages that the sport brought me. I had lived my entire life without realizing that all the work that I was putting into the gym was to eventually gain something greater.

Academic success to me is achieving good grades and understanding the material to get good grades. Academic success also means to have an good attendance. I already get mostly A’s and B’s, but I am not good at staying on top of things. To improve my academic success I will attend class more often, be more organized, pay attention in class, and not procrastinate.

Therefore, I learned a lot from my experience and I feel confident that I will be able to apply my skills to my personal life, academic journey and professional

There have been many moments in my life as a Belmont University student that have inspired me to both engage and transform the world the around me. However, there is always one moment that sticks out the most for me though. When I was a junior, I finally got around to taking my linked courses because I was a transfer student and things involving my schedule got weird after a certain point and never really resolved. But, onto the main topic, these linked courses were a required part of the Belmont University undergraduate experience and they involved taking two courses during the same semester that had different emphases but one overall theme that connected them throughout the semester. In my case, the linked courses were Chemistry and Communications with the main overall theme of engaging the environment around us,

This experience has cemented my aspirations to pursue graduate studies abroad and seek a career in research. A challenging career in research will bring-in problems involving intense intellectual thinking and such a career will be pivotal in unearthing the best out of