Suffering Personal Statements Samples For Students

Reflecting on my personal experiences, I appreciate the extensive impact of science in my life. I was born and brought up in Mekele in Ethiopia. The region was plagued by drought and civil war. As a result, people endured a lot of suffering and they strived to survive. Staying healthy was akin to a violent brawl. There was a shortage of doctors and medical supplies. A lot of people lost their lives, a fact that bothered me. Similarly, access to education in such an environment was almost impossible.

My parents were lucky to have secured an education. My worked as a teacher while my mother ...

In my third year of medicine school at Ross University on November 2008, I was intrigued by a class on open heart surgery of a patient suffering from myocardial infarction. The video documented of each step and explained the logic behind each incision of a heart vessel. This was intriguing to me as what attracted me was the mechanics of the cardiology system. It was like a complex wire system in a machine and an electrician was exploring each wire to find fault; except this time the electrician was a cardiologist. This was even better as the cardiologist was striving to also make sure that ...

Once when I was a child, I spent a week in the hospital, and what impressed me most of all was the helplessness of people who experienced different health problems. Then I first thought about the way science can decrease the scope of human suffering. Later human physiology and the cellular mechanisms have become of great interest to me and now I am passionate to become a professional scientist.
My further studies only increased my curiosity in learning about pathology in the biomedical field. In order to stay up-to-date with the latest developments and technologies in the biomedical sciences, I spent ...