Considering your lifetime goals, discuss how your current and future academic and extra-curricular activities might help you achieve your goals.

As I reflect on my extracurricular and academic activities, I see the essence of my future. I want to attend a great university (like the University of Texas); I want to work hard to become a nurse—a person who has devoted his or herself to caring for the well-being of others.

Presently, my extracurricular and academic interests are combined in my two year Health Science class. The class provides real-life medical situations that I may come in contact with in the future. Like any health science class, we study the body, in both its’ functional and dysfunctional state. This survey class also includes an introduction to equipment, medical protocol, and ethical issues. A sense of teamwork guides our procedures. Next semester, I will study at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Ramstein High School’s Career Practicum program. After initial on-the-job application of classroom learning, we will work with patients, supervised by the hospital staff. Living so close to a hospital that services thousands of seriously injured patients every year provides opportunities that other students lack, even in their college programs.

Nursing is a little like a stage production. Success is determined by everyone working together. If someone does not record accurate information on a chart, serious consequences could occur. The team of professionals is only as strong as its weakest link. Just as I go on stage relying on others to know their lines as well as I do, as a nurse I will go into emergency situations relying on others to know their jobs; lives depend on it. I have enjoyed my experiences on the stage and sincerely feel that this experience helps me develop skills that will assist me in my nursing career.

Not only do I have a passion for t...

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...esson in nursing. Being kind now while I am still in high school is my first step into the healthcare profession. Practicing this now will make a difference for someone and I will be a better person for it later in my life.

My extracurricular and academic activities have helped mold me into a person with character and good qualities. These qualities--respect, humility, kindness, ambition, appreciation for diversity and collaboration, and courage--have not come without valuable failures and lessons. I can continue to develop these qualities and build upon these lessons as I go forward with my university goals and the desire I have to enter the healthcare profession as a nurse. I am able to look beyond the exciting, glamorous parts of both and see that there will be lots of hard work and difficulty. I am ready to face those challenges and do my best and give my all.