Admissions Essay - Im in Debt but Im Not a Doctor so if i don't get into medical school what the fuck am I supposed to do with my life? I have spent the last 10 years preparing to go become a doctor. 4 years of hell @ the high school full of snotty people to go to Yale. 4 years of sweating yale to get a good bio background. 2 years of tamu for a MS in epidemiology. too many jobs and never enough fun. and, judging by the mail, im not good enough. my graduate gpa in major was 3.77 last i knew. my mcat was 31. i can't even get into UT galveston... the supposed bottom of the texas barrel. mom wants me to be a lawyer my dept wants me to go for a phd so they can have another good statistic psychology sounds cool but everywhere i turn people tell me no on THAT one and all I want to do is be a doctor. im 23. i graduate in august with 20,000 in loans. i have no job. i have no idea where to even FIND a job w/o a phd its past the deadline for grad programs until 1999. and all i want to do is be a doctor i watched er last night ohh bad move i wanted to slaughter the blond chick an obgyn specifically helping people people keep telling me about "i have a freind who went down to south america and did something incredible for 2 years then came back and got in." that's great. how do i pay sally mae back 500$+ a month from brazil as a volunteer? i feel like screaming at all the people who told me that yale was worth it b/c yale was worth it for me to become me but it was a rip academically the name dosen't trade in for the .4 my gpa lost by going there. people @tamu with worse mcats than me and .3 better grades get in. and i know that every person who reads this thinks "well then somethign else is obviously WRONG with YOU" i want to be a doctor instead evidently i am a fuck up
This essay will review Daniel Goldhagen’s controversial moral inquiry, ‘A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair’, published in 2002. Goldhagen attended Harvard University as a graduate, undergraduate and assistant professor until he was denied tenure in 2003; this possibly indicates his limited status as an academic. Goldhagen notes that he is ‘indebted’ to his father, a Holocaust survivor, for some of his findings on the Holocaust. This personal connection to the Holocaust on the one hand allows Goldhagen to write more passionately. On the other hand, it obscures his ability to view evidence objectively, evident in this book under review. Goldhagen status rose to notoriety due to the controversial nature of his first book, ‘Hitler’s Willing Executioners’ published in 1996. This received much criticism and perhaps more importantly to Goldhagen, plenty of publicity. The contentious assertions of the book, whether academically valid or not, established the relative novice amongst historians. This is evident in the abundance of secondary literature that comments on Goldhagen’s work including that edited by F. Littell and F. Kautz. Goldhagen’s credentials as a controversial author explain the extremist content of his second book, ‘A Moral Reckoning’. Goldhagen’s academic background in political science is evident in the books emphasis on the church as a ‘political institution’ and the pope as a ‘political leader’ (p. 184). . This limits his work as a historian as he fails to fully examine the role of the individual.
In David Brook’s essay, “It’s Not About You,” Brooks mentions and describes the challenges college graduates face when looking for a job. He goes on and describes how this generation is different than any other generation. He explains how college graduates don’t go on and get married, buy houses, and have kids like previous generations. He also states how college prepares you with a set of skills that are much different to the ones you encounter when you graduate. Those skills you have to learn on your own.
The events which have become to be known as The Holocaust have caused much debate and dispute among historians. Central to this varied dispute is the intentions and motives of the perpetrators, with a wide range of theories as to why such horrific events took place. The publication of Jonah Goldhagen’s controversial but bestselling book “Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust” in many ways saw the reigniting of the debate and a flurry of scholarly and public interest. Central to Goldhagen’s disputed argument is the presentation of the perpetrators of the Holocaust as ordinary Germans who largely, willingly took part in the atrocities because of deeply held and violently strong anti-Semitic beliefs. This in many ways challenged earlier works like Christopher Browning’s “Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland” which arguably gives a more complex explanation for the motives of the perpetrators placing the emphasis on circumstance and pressure to conform. These differing opinions on why the perpetrators did what they did during the Holocaust have led to them being presented in very different ways by each historian. To contrast this I have chosen to focus on the portrayal of one event both books focus on in detail; the mass shooting of around 1,500 Jews that took place in Jozefow, Poland on July 13th 1942 (Browning:2001:225). This example clearly highlights the way each historian presents the perpetrators in different ways through; the use of language, imagery, stylistic devices and quotations, as a way of backing up their own argument. To do this I will focus on how various aspects of the massacre are portrayed and the way in which this affects the presentation of the per...
Employers consider a degree necessary for getting a job at their company. However, not many people can afford college. The solution is to take out loans, then college becomes affordable. These loans create a whole different issue, student loan debt. This can affect people their whole lifetime and has been happening for years upon years. But, in the more recent years America is starting to shed more light onto the issue and are becoming curious on why colleges charge twenty five thousand dollars, or more, for a year of education. Many different countries offer free college, but in America student loan debt keeps getting worse.
Yet, in 1976, the Supreme Court in Gregg V. Georgia declared the death penalty for murder is constitutional (AAE "Capital Punishment"). The death penalty is also fair and serves it justice -- surveyed police chiefs and sheriffs choose the death penalty as a primary method to combat violent crime (Montgomery 2-25-95). It cost less in the long run as well.
When it comes to achieving success in the working industry and accomplishing a successful career an education is important. Getting a degree is essential to be successful. The issue is the higher the education the person wants the higher the cost is. Nowadays, not everyone can afford paying out of pocket for an education, which mean that students are forced to take out large amount of student loans to achieve that degree. Student debt is an ongoing problem, students are gaining oversized debts that most of the time if not ALL are defaulting and jeopardizing future credits. How much debt it too much debt? Everyone should have the liberty to
Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah. Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust. New York: Vintage, 1997. Print.
Becoming a doctor has been a lifelong dream of mine and my family. My dream started taking shape when I was selected in Medical school. Medical School helped me grow personally, emotionally and intellectually. Each patient taught me something new. The clinical rotations strengthened my clinical knowledge and sharpened my clinical skills.
College debt is a universally known issue that remains one of society’s largest burdens today. Over the past ten years, high school students and graduates realized that they must seek a higher education in order to find a job that keeps food on the table. Attending a college or university is practically required in order to succeed in life today. Millions of people seek a higher education to pursue a degree, graduate, and acquire a quality job that supports their everyday needs. It often means a lot of money to pursue and earn a degree nowadays. What they don’t realize, is that paying their tuition and housing deposits is essentially signing a contract, costing them thousands of dollars in the near future and leading them down the dark path
Medical debt is one of the top reasons why many households experience financial hardship. Countries such as South Africa have been living poverty for a very long time. Adding a fatal medical condition in the mix, will only make the financial impact that much greater for the denizens of that country. The South African government has made several attempts to implement a universal health care system across the board. Lanchet writers Bongani M Mayos (2012) and colleagues published an article, stating many challenges that would still need to be addressed in order for national health insurance to become available for all.
With college being a social norm and being looked at as the path or key to success, many who walk down that path, face financial nightmares. Most students face the struggles of paying for tuition, text books, food, housing, commute, etc. For this reason, a lot of students have no choice but to take out student loans in order to continue their studies and get a college degree, in hopes for a better future. To get a sense of how many people are struggling financially due to student loans and debt, the United States has an accumulated total of approximately, 1.4 trillion dollars in student loan debt. The vast amount of student debt has created many barriers in many people’s lives, which is why the government should make it easier for individuals
In recent years, 70 percent of students graduated with student loans. The average 2016 grad holds $37,172 in student debt, according to calculations by student loan expert Mark Kantrowitz. This is an issue that deserves attention because it be couldn’t be anymore relevant to what college graduate students are going through today having to pay back student loans in order to attend college and college loan debt continues to rise as educational institutes continue to raise their tuition costs. College loan debt negatively affects many lower income college graduates and will have effect those who will attend college in the future which in the end will lead students down the road of financial failure and leave them with limited options of work in the future. Student debt continues to increase.
As students seek jobs in a recovering economy they are force to take whatever job they find in order to pay their debt for the education they received. They cannot afford to be too selective when it comes to finding employment. In many instances most recent graduates have to put their career on hold and take a job outside of their field of study. Most of them take on two jobs so they can pay the bill for seeking higher education. This causes them to get trapped in jobs they are not satisfied with. Student loan debt has caused an impact on their social life as well. Many will shy away from marriage because of the extra baggage of loan debt that they bring into the equation that most don’t want be saddled with the responsibility of someone else’s debt when they have their own to tend with.
I realize my lifetime goal is a little farfetched, seeing as how competitive the medical field is. I’m aware many people have failed in this endeavor, and it is very rarely achieved; however, based on the community service hours and extracurricular activities I have involved myself in, I feel my chances at succeeding are just as good as any. Becoming a doctor will be stressful and time taking (after all, it is a lifetime goal), but the reward at the end will be gratifying.