On an airplane, the mother of a nauseous boy is calling for an inattentive flight attendant. Looking at this scene from above, I was tasked with describing this scene as a story in American Sign Language (ASL). I had a minute to create a story that would show key linguistic elements – including contrastive structure and interpretive classifiers. In that one minute, I came up with this: the boy just felt some motion sickness. In the flight attendant’s distraction, though,...

In the eighth grade, my science teacher would allow us to watch any of the NOVA ScienceNow documentaries for extra credit, barring the biology ones. So after watching one on the world’s “Deadliest Volcanoes,” I made an impulsive decision: to watch a documentary on human evolution. After watching that first one, I was captivated. I watched each documentary in that series and then watched additional videos on neanderthals, historic interactions, the case of evolution versus intelligent design -- anything...

The Global Public Health: Anthropology program offered at NYU is what first intrigued me about the college. One field that I am especially passionate about entering is personalized medicine, which encompasses the concepts of diagnosing and treating patients based on their inherent and extrinsic factors. Personalized medicine considers everything from genetics to lifestyle and applies both traditional and modern treatments to best assist an individual. As America is becoming increasingly diverse, physicians have to accommodate for the different lifestyles and...

In the eighth grade, my science teacher would allow us to watch any of the NOVA ScienceNow documentaries for extra credit, barring the biology ones. So after watching one on the world’s “Deadliest Volcanoes,” I made an impulsive decision: to watch a documentary on human evolution. After watching that first one, I was captivated. I watched each documentary in that series, and then watched additional videos on neanderthals, historic interactions, the case of evolution versus intelligent design -- anything...

State your reasons for aspiring to a career in medicine. When I was fourteen, I had a bout of the flu. I woke up in the middle of the night – despite being heavily medicated – grabbed a pencil, and scribbled a message for my morning self: “Vitamin D cures cancer.” Since I was first exposed to “big kid” biology, in the seventh grade, I knew that I was hooked. Genetics, proteins, cells, behaviors, everything interested me. That year, I decided that...