Everything was a countdown for me. I was constantly tapping my feet to the rhythm of ticking clocks. One would think that there were an army after me, but no - I was simply addicted to time. My addiction started as something sincere. But when I started timing my conversations with my friends, and wearing two watches on my hand because I had to make sure I always had the correct time, it became an innocent habit gone amiss. I...

Harvard Writing Supplement: It had been two years since I had seen my father. I was young, innocent, and immature. I did not understand why he had just left us, but I continued to live my daily life with my brother and my mother. I woke up, I went to school, I went home, I practiced piano. Next day, repeat. My life was smooth, casual, and pleasantly systematic. But one day, coming home from the family pharmacy, my mother said...

​They say find what you love, and let it kill you. Life science may not have killed me, but it definitely has consumed my life. I first truly fell in love with everything life science related in middle school, but high school sealed the deal. I filled my schedule with all the science courses I could take, but that was never enough, so I found more outlets for my interest. I joined my school’s Science Olympiad team, and competed...

During the second semester of my junior year of high school, I was granted the opportunity to perform a research project in which I investigated the relationship between the levels of dissolved oxygen in the lakes and ponds of Florida’s Fred Howard Park, and the biodiversity in the water sources. This project opened my eyes to the world of environmental science, and my findings led me to discover eutrophication, and other dangers brought upon the environment by human actions....

Yale is committed to fostering diversity on its campus, which I admire, as I need a school that will be entirely welcoming of me. Yale also gives its students room to explore in their undergraduate years and allows for curiosity. This makes Yale the perfect environment for personal growth and thus, the perfect place for me. Yale also appeals to me because of the immense support it shows for its students, and its readiness to aid and support them in...