AP Chemistry: A Personal Statement Of Purpose

S-PREP is a once in lifetime opportunity that helps to prepare those that want to pursue a career in medicine, science, technology, engineering, or mathematics. One of the greatest benefits of this program is that this all done before going to college. What caught my interest about this program is that this is the first program that was mentioned to me that had courses in neuroscience. During my Junior year at Hayes, I gained the opportunity to attend a science symposium at Iona College. It was thanks to my current AP Chemistry teacher, Brother Robert Chiulli, that I learned from the symposium that there are various fields in science. Neuroscience and nanotechnology caught my interest, considering that they sparked my long forgotten curiosity.

Growing up I always wondered how technology, such as a flashlight, worked and why it only worked the way it was designed. This curiosity slowly went away and was replaced with other ideas such as art, but was slowly reanimated by going to the symposium. For me, having that sense of curiosity return, over fills me with joy since now I have a purpose to continue my studies. Hopefully before my Senior Year ends, I get accepted into a college with a decent neuroscience department, if not I’m going to look at colleges with decent mechanical engineering courses. My short term goal is get into a small community college if I don’t get accepted into a four year college. While for the long term I’m aiming to get a Doctorate in either mechanical engineering or neuroscience. By attending this program, I hope that I’m able to firmly decide between either studying neuroscience or mechanical engineering. If I get accepted into this program, I will not only aim to do my best but also contribute to the program by being an extremely competitive student. Going into high school my grades weren’t that good, in fact my grades were almost below average in English, Math, and Science. But I learned over time that anyone can have good grades by being academically competitive, it's a driving force to better enlighten oneself with education.