Descriptive Essay: Welcome To Southern California
Drip, Drip, Drip. Finally, the sounds of the blessed rain that Southern California has been waiting for has arrived.
Before, it was “Welcome to California where the sun is hot and our grass is dry”. Now, with the fall of every rain drop off my rooftop it appears to be another weight taken off the shoulders of the sky and dropped into the grateful tongues of tinged yellow below.
Each drop replenishes the soil below.
Yet, it is not only the ground beneath me that desires to grow and show its beauty, but the passion and dreams of my fellow scholars and I.
When I look out the grey window I want to see my opportunity to heal as the water does. For me, I desire to design remedies for the attritions that lie within the body through biomedical
engineering. Seeking new paths to efficiently and effectively apply what I have learned to restore life and hope to those confined to their hospital beds. I yearn for the day when doctors no longer need to utter the words, “Unfortunately, science simply does not know the answer to your illness.”
My dreams are big, yet my window is dimmed, shaded by curtains of financial strife.
With this scholarship, I implore the economic nourishment to continue my studies and bless another's life by being their next water droplet, their hope.
William Agnew
University of California, Irvine
Before, it was “Welcome to California where the sun is hot and our grass is dry”. Now, with the fall of every rain drop off my rooftop it appears to be another weight taken off the shoulders of the sky and dropped into the grateful tongues of tinged yellow below.
Each drop replenishes the soil below.
Yet, it is not only the ground beneath me that desires to grow and show its beauty, but the passion and dreams of my fellow scholars and I.
When I look out the grey window I want to see my opportunity to heal as the water does. For me, I desire to design remedies for the attritions that lie within the body through biomedical
engineering. Seeking new paths to efficiently and effectively apply what I have learned to restore life and hope to those confined to their hospital beds. I yearn for the day when doctors no longer need to utter the words, “Unfortunately, science simply does not know the answer to your illness.”
My dreams are big, yet my window is dimmed, shaded by curtains of financial strife.
With this scholarship, I implore the economic nourishment to continue my studies and bless another's life by being their next water droplet, their hope.
William Agnew
University of California, Irvine