Choosing a career path at this age can be very challenging at this age. Many jobs are available in a variety of fields and majors but I believe I want to look into a career path in the medical field, orthodontics specifically. Growing up I have always been interested in becoming an orthodontist because they deal with everyone’s favorite bones, their teeth. Pursuing a career as an orthodontist will be scary and exciting because there is so much about the job that is waiting to be discovered. Pursuing a career
All my life, I have been involved in sports, school, and the community. Participating in sports from cheerleading, basketball, baseball, to volleyball. If wasn’t practicing for a sport, I was involved in my community serving on the youth action committee as the secretary in grade school, being a freshman mentor and the president of the Black student union in high school, serving as the Living area council in Adams hall, and now blessed with the opportunity of being an alpha leader this semester.
because it is a requirement for my major." Others may simple state, "I am in this for an easy elective." Still others may timidly reply, "I really am not sure what I want to do after college, and I figured this would be a good class to expose myself to the careers within this industry." While my response may ring true to a couple of those statements, I am quite intrigued and excited to take intro to hospitality this semester for numerous reasons. Regardless of the career an individual pursues, I believe
Dear COHPA Scholarship Selection Committee: My name is Carlos M. Crespo, and I am pursuing a Health Sciences degree at the University of Central Florida. When I got diagnosed with an immune system illness in my teenage years, my doctor and other medical professionals were very helpful, motivational, and even inspirational. As a result of all of the help and support that I received from them, I have chosen to pursue a career in public service through the public health field. I want to be involved
My American Dream People from different countries come to the U.S. to start or change their lives to better themselves and their families to become successful in their future. In the U.S there is an American Dream many people can believe in. The American dream is to live by happiness in believing in yourself while having faith to never give up in order to be successful. The American dream can be accomplished in different ways, the main purpose is to pursue it. For some, who have struggled throughout
I wanted to major in college, but as time went on, my true aspiration was obtaining a Bachelor's Degree in Nursing. Growing up as the oldest of six children, I came to love the innocent and lively faces of the children born around me. All my life I grew up caring for
to me since my childhood. The growing technological advances in the field of science have opened up growth opportunities in newer dimensions. To succeed in the revolutionary workplace of tomorrow, one has to have perfect combination of theory and practical knowledge. I regard myself fortunate to have the opportunity for pursuing post-graduation in Biochemistry. As my undergraduate education draws to a close, I have come to what is possibly the most important decision in my career, the choice of
Ten years ago, I was officially a college dropout; leaving Wiley College after only two years was the biggest mistake of my life. Ten years ago, I created a narrative about the type of people who went to college. I made myself believe that college was a place exclusively for extremely smart people who came from nice middle class families. College was not a place where an African American who lived in subsidized housing went. Although I was enrolled in college and doing quite well, I fell victim to
July 18, 1998 was a very important day for my parents and the start of my life, so I thought. Two weeks in the wake of returning home from the hospital my mother noticed a distinction in my breathing. My parents had taken me to Urgent Care and I was diagnosed with having three holes in my heart. My parents promptly arrived at New Hanover Regional Hospital, which confirmed the diagnosis of the apertures. The physician informed my parents that I was about to go into cardiac arrest; therefore, I needed
Since my childhood, I have ensued a natural affinity for sketching and drawing. It always bestowed me with immense pleasure and satisfaction, and there were many occasions when I have been deeply engrossed in it totally oblivious of the time and happenings around me. As a kid, I have always solicited pleasure, in my surroundings during my encounters with various forms of art-whether it was building, a water body or a tree. I always had a particular interest in sketching sceneries, because in outlining