I’ve always loved making people feel better about themselves. My mom told me that from a young age, I was always looking for a way to make people happy. Not because I necessarily gained anything out of it, but because it made me feel better knowing I could influence somebody in a positive way. I started volunteering at a young age. My first experience was at Forgotten Harvest, an organization that cleans food and gives it to those who are in need. I cleaned squash that day and it wasn’t easy. I was thinking to myself, how is this going to help anybody? It wasn’t until after I had seen where the squash I cleaned had gone, that I realized what I did went a long way. The joy on those people's faces made everything worth it. For them to be so happy with just receiving vegetables like squash and carrots, it made me realize that doing so little could make a world of a difference. That was the first day I realized what I wanted to go into when I was older. I was around fourteen at the time when it clicked that I wanted to make people feel better both physically and mentally. I figured a doctor is my obvious choice, so the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor would be the perfect school for me. …show more content…
University of Michigan has just the right programs to make it one of the best in terms of medicine.
With 470 million dollars in research grants, it’s no wonder why this school is one of top ten in the nation. I think this school has the best program for me, mainly for it’s flexibility and continuous support in whatever career I choose to pursue. I’m planning on becoming a successful surgeon and in order to do that, I would need a successful school to help guide me. Because the University of Michigan has many different kinds of PhDs to choose from, I will have no problem finding the right one for me.I have friends that have gone to this university and they are now living very happy lives in the careers they have chosen to pursue. That is the kind of happiness I hope to get as
well. In order to be happy with my future career, I would need a great college experience along with some experience in the field I choose to go in. That is why I have taken the opportunity to volunteer at Beaumont Hospital-Dearborn (formerly known as Oakwood.) As a volunteer, it is my responsibility to ensure patients and visitors are happy and informed. Because of this, I have developed great personable skills and have a better understanding of people in general. I believe the skills I have obtained can go a long way at this university. I love working with people and finding new ways to help. A great program for this would be Ann Arbor’s Study Abroad program. It has produced 2,458 Peace Corps volunteers, which makes the school number four in the nation. That just shows that this school could be great for people like me who are interested in everything these programs offer. I feel this university is perfect for me and I hope you feel I’m perfect for the university as well. I will continue to work hard to improve myself in the future. I will seek every opportunity to grow and I hope I will get that opportunity at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
I am going to take the class Practicum, which is a health science class where I get to work at a hospital and learn how to become a medical assistant. At the end of the year I will take the licensing exam and hopefully will be able to get a job as a medical assistant. I am also thinking of rejoining HOSA (Health Occupations Students of America) because there are medical volunteering opportunities as well as school medical competitions. I now volunteer with the other members at elementary schools, parades downtown, etc. I think volunteering in any form is very good for teaching the values of service, how it’s important to give back to the community and help those who have have helped you. I volunteer for AVID and NHS.
Being in a school that brought students from various counties and cities with different backgrounds, beliefs, and perspectives, opened my eyes to seeing just how diverse humanity is. In a time when everyone is struggling with personal problems, I know how monumental a simple volunteer act can be. One of my favorite acts of service is tutoring. I tutored an elementary-aged girl for two years in Fort Lee and I will always remember those two years as the most fulfilling. Education is so precious, and children are the most open to it.
I started volunteering at the food bank and the soup kitchen in grade 9, with a nudge from my friend. During my time as a volunteer, I would ask for donations and collect any non-perishable food items. Later I would go to the Soup Kitchen, to help cook some of these items and serve them to those in need. My volunteering experience allowed me to experience the environment and face situations that I otherwise would not. It opened my eyes to the harsh reality and lifestyle that many individuals in our society face today. My time at the food bank and Soup Kitchen helped me understand the importance of giving, ...
My heart was beating and my hands were sweating. My teacher asked me a question and I wanted to cry. I didn’t know how to say my response in English and was afraid of the other kids making fun of me because I thought my accent was too strong. All the students stared. “Just answer the question” one girl murmured. Every day I’d sit in the same seat without talking. And even though I had spent a month in the same classroom I felt uncomfortable being there. I moved to the United States from the Dominican Republic when I was twelve. I knew the word for “mariposa” was “butterfly,” and I knew how to introduce myself, but that was about all. Some people would even become frustrated due to the fact they couldn’t understand me, or the other way around. Knowing how they felt about me not being able to communicate made me want to shut myself off from them.
This article got me thinking. I had face situation in my life that because of my bad grammar I had let go of great opportunities. English is my second languish and I thought that as long as I knew the basic I would be ok in life. But as I got older I started seeing the pattern of negatives effects of my insecurity of grammar. My return to college open my eyes to a better potential in life just by continually a proper college education. When reading this article the wheels of my brain started spinning. The first image that pop in my head, was my children trying to mimic all the YouTubers online with their in style vocabulary. Then two little boys appear in my head, two little boys that I saw ones about 10 years ago for about 10mn. I have forgotten them, until
Since a young age, I have always put the needs of others before mine. I like to believe that I was born with a passion for helping and understanding people, and this passion has only grown stronger as I matured. I have been in and out of hospitals since a very young age. Every time, what amazes me is the care, calmness, and compassion of the nurses as they take care of both the patient and loved ones. Just being around them and watching them work made me want to become just like them.
People tend to take their legs for granted. While the other girls in my school were fawning over the football players’ muscles, or their perfect hair, I was jealous of their legs. Their functional legs. It's pretty crazy to think of a 15-year-old learning how to walk, but that’s exactly where I was. In a gym full of colorful mats and loud children, all I could focus on was the heavy Polish accent of my physical therapist urging me to trust myself. I took three whole steps. I started to get over confident, thinking that I could walk way more than someone who had a three-year gap in their walking practice should. I took four more steps. I looked up at my therapist for reassurance and a slight nod of her head encouraged me to keep going. Left.
A reflection of my volunteering experience can be summarized in two words: Life-changing. It is hard to explain the feelings that occur when you involve yourself in selfless acts for your community, such as volunteering. There is a feeling in your heart that you cannot ignore, maybe it is the happiness you feel or the overflow of emotions in helping others. In other words, it is a feeling in which you want to share with others. Maybe with a friend, maybe a classmate, maybe a family member, or maybe even a stranger. Either way, spreading how life-changing volunteering can be is a great start to making a positive change in your community by simply by involving others.
I like to make people smile I am not sure about others but if I am able to just make someone smile just a little bit, the feeling inside me just explodes like a bomb full of happiness. Everyone has the power to change someone’s life for the better in practicing a random act of kindness as I have mention earlier.
For every species there comes a time where we feel like we need interaction with each other, isolation is not something that we as mammals have programed in our brains. We desire love, acceptance and interaction; the kind that brings us all together. We form groups depending on who we are, some can be like humans coming together to bring happiness to each other (Slide 13) or some can be just simply a large group like how penguins flock together (Slide 12) either way we tend to migrate toward each other.
I was raised in rural wyoming where hunting was not only tradition, but a way of life. Since I could walk I had been accompanying my dad on all varieties of hunts. My father did all that was possible to pass on the knowledge and lessons needed for me to become a responsible hunter and man. However, there are some lessons that can only be learned through personal experience. They are often the ones of moral and ethical decisions. My sophomore year of high school I committed the hunting mistake most outstanding in my mind.
Emerson is correct that if one wants to grow ones will have to get out of that comfort zone. If one already mastered something and not trying new things that person will never grow as a person. Exploring to new projects, to new places , and to new people will help ones grow. Just doing the same thing repeating will get exhausting and not exciting .
While big events may create major changes in our plans for our future, little events define us as the people we will become. One of my earliest memory was as a five-year-old. I have been there many time, in my thoughts and dreams. In it, I was on the dirt drive of the church parsonage was evening.
When I was younger, I firmly believe that if someone was smiling they were happy. At this time I was around the age six. I held this belief because I was always around people who seemed happy. There was always laughter, smiles, and hugs. T.V. shows that I watch were filled with smiling faces and laughing groups of people joking around with each other. The people in my life were always so positive around me. But as I got older I grew a better understanding of what was going on.
When I was a boy, I was always happy and was a bright student. I was always eager to learn something new and I always gave my best effort at whatever I did, all the while helping my peers to learn in a fun and creative way. One summer during elementary school, my parents sat me down on my living room couch and delivered the worst news a little boy could hear: my best friend had drowned at a birthday party that I was getting ready to go to. I was different from that point on, seemingly forever. I became unhappy, yet I was still a bright kid, but I lost my ability to self-motivate. My parents tried to help me as best they could, which led to them sheltering me throughout high school. I felt suffocated by their actions, even though they had my best interests in mind.