Transformative Middle School Years: A Personal Journey

Essay #3
1) I come from a Muslim family. To ensure a greater understanding of my religion, my parents enrolled me in a private religious elementary and middle school. When people talk about what period of school they learned the most from, some may say high school, others might say college, but personally, I have found that people rarely ever say middle school. Those were the years that shaped me the most. Well, because as a child, I was not as religious as some of my classmates, in many aspects. I was different in many ways and also a little annoying, which neither others nor myself appreciated. I didn 't like the way people perceived me and the way I perceived myself, I felt very inconsequential. So I changed myself, I became someone I loved that didn 't
I took action and worked harder to set a future for myself. I had taken general education courses in my eleventh and twelfth grade, with classes in public speaking, psychology, pre calculus, earth science, and political science. In college, I took full loads every semester and during the summer in my major, biology. I had to take classes in physics, chemistry, biology, organic chemistry, and microbiology. These were extremely difficult classes that took energy and effort, but what kept me going was my desire to become a better person. After high school, I no longer had an internship so I decided to volunteer at Sharp Memorial Hospital’s radiology department. There I helped in transporting patients from one room to another and in patient care and treatment. It was an eye-opening experience. I not only was able to volunteer, but I was also accepted into a research program my third semester of college that took place at UCSD. This was a paid research program, which helped pay my college tuition. All of these accomplishments, I made have benefited my learning and work ethic which helped me become the student I am. Those experiences helped me finally become the person I wanted to be, and allowed me to