Biology Personal Statement

My academic career is based on the sciences, especially chemistry and biology. Throughout my childhood, I have been greatly exposed to the sciences. My mother was a nurse practitioner in a rural clinic, which was connected to our house. Consequently, the clinic became my playground and the stethoscopes became my toys. Therefore, I was always interested in how the body worked and what affected our health.

​Ever since I was a child, I have loved science. I learned at a young age to always keep asking questions and to never settle with just simply not knowing something. The thought of how everything works on a molecular level never ceases to fascinate me. I have other interests spanning multiple fields, but none can compare to my love of science. I quite enjoy being in the labs and getting to do experiments to uncover answers that were otherwise unknown to me. It is that curiosity and interest that keeps my fascination towards the realm of science strong.

I am interested in environmental studies as a potential major and want to learn more about this field in a professional setting. Through my Human Evolution, Environmental Science, and AP Biology courses, I have become familiar with ecology and evolution. While the Community-Based Ecology in the Galápagos project looks at these fields from a philosophical standpoint, it will provide me with practical experience and invaluable insights as I decide my major and future career path

The way the human body has perfectly adapted to survive in this world is beyond miraculous, it is made up of many diverse systems which work together to keep us alive and healthy without us being physically aware of what processes are taking place inside us. Moreover survival and the combat of illnesses present in the human body is solely reliant on the biomedical sciences, which has fuelled my desire to expand my knowledge of life on a wider, biological level and to pursue a career in biomedical science.

With this knowledge of the body, it will aid me in the anatomy and physiology aspect of this major and career as well. I will endure rigorous training and memorization with the intention of becoming the best and most accurate physician assistant I can be. In addition, with the Biology major being one of the most popular majors in colleges, it will also require a lot of dedication and a meticulous work ethic. While completing my major, I will receive an experience similar to the one I will encounter while completing my two year graduate physician assistant program. This allows me to learn and grow as a student, in order to strive at my graduate

My passion for zoology arose from living next to a river. Seeing wildlife such as kingfishers, wrens and fresh water mussels in their different habitats instilled in me an excitement about the animal kingdom. This was then reinforced through my love of documentaries particularly those of David Attenborough and also my love of photography and trekking. The desire to learn from nature has become part of me and is fundamental to who I am, resulting in a desire to study and work within this field. I have begun to see the conflict between the animal kingdom and the developing world; we must help not just help the developing parts of the world but the more developed areas to learn from their errors and adopt more sustainable policies.

As a Biomedical Science major, I have continued to pursue my interest for the fields of science and medicine. In doing so, I have learned a great deal about my personal interests and what I am passionate about. Conducting undergraduate research has played a large role in this. Through managing my own projects or working under a primary investigator to aid them in their own, I have learned that I enjoy the laboratory setting and the opportunity for exploration it provides. In addition, my experiences outside of the class room, so to speak, have also continue to provide me with inspiration for pursuing a career within the field science, specifically pertaining to medicine.

Science has always interested me and i have been considering if for a career. If i was to enter a science field for a career, these are the 3 fields i would be mostly interested in. All of my life i had been fascinated with the ocean so i would highly consider going into marine biology. Marine Biology is the study of all plants and animals that live in the ocean. Marine Biologists study a wide range of organisms that varies from Whales and Dolphins to single celled plankton and sea grass. They can also study specific things like a single species of fish or all the fish that live in different ecosystems. Marine Biology also has many places you could work at. One day you could dragging giant nets behind a big boat and another time you coud be

I have never been more engrossed in a class like I am in anatomy and physiology. I have never gone out of my way to do research on a topic of out sheer interest for another class. There have been countless nights where I stay up reading about mechanoreceptors and pressure activated sodium gates. I believe I have finally found my passion in life.

I have one major goal in life which is to assist in saving our environment and the organisms that complete the earth. Marine life is my passion and I have two main interests in Marine Science. My first interest is marine life behavior and how marine organisms react within their altering environment. With my degree I want to find a way to help these marvelous creatures adapt to these environmental and ecosystem changes effortless and decrease the number of organisms that are endangered. We have to change the way we think and behave as humans to make a true effect on decreasing the extinctions that transpires.

Curiosity has always been my driving force. My interest in Natural Sciences initially arose trying to understand nutrition and how different types of molecules are used to fuel our body. My interest shifted to Synthetic Biology when I found the Wyss Institute at Harvard. The way they are using nature as inspiration to develop new tools for making a better society inspires me. Three books have helped me to reinforce my commitment to studying Biotechnology.

I’ve had an immense passion for learning all of my life. The drive I have to understand the world I inhabit in an incredibly intimate way has led me into the world of biology. And studying the living world and my role in its functioning is exactly what I strive to do everyday. The summer after highschool I worked as a natural resource crew member for the Shawnee National Forest, where I finally had the opportunity to know what it meant to study and manage a forest ecosystem. Through my college curriculum and every summer in between I made sure that I found opportunities in the field so that I could continue to engage with and learn from the natural world.

For my entire life, I have wanted to pursue a career in Biology. As I have grown older and changed, I have narrowed my field of study to becoming a Pediatric Surgeon with a specialty in Fetal Surgery. But as I have grown and changed, so has the world around me, and the climate. The rapid climate change could affect my field of biological study by increasing the number of patients I will see in my career that present with heat related illnesses; such as heat stroke, dehydration, sunburns, etc. Also by increasing the number of patients I will see with respiratory issues due to low air quality from increased CO2 in the air.

Biology plays a role in my life now because I am in Biology class that is currently teaching me about my life. In the future, I would like to go into a science related career.

Because of its groundbreaking research, STEM strongly appeals to me. Researchers are constantly discovering new concepts and theories while building upon and modifying old concepts made by our forerunners. With each passing year, great strides towards technological advancement are made. For instance, scientists successful growth of a functional, artificial embryo in