Medical Biology Personal Statement

To whom it may consider,

I came into college not really knowing exactly what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, but I knew I wanted to do something in the medical field. My mom being a Physical Therapist, and me always having a special interest in science classes the idea was always there when I thought about my future. I am currently undecided, but have been taking classes on the Medical Biology track and very interested in minoring in something else on the side. But although I am on the Medical Biology track, as I said earlier I am very un-sure as to what specifically I want to do. Medical school being the most prestige opportunity in the medical area I decided to shoot for that and hopefully continue through with it, or find something
Cancer has always been a very interesting thing to me, and it has always upset me and made curious has to how we have not found a cure for it, especially with all the technology and knowledge we have today. Early February of last year my father passed away from Glioblastoma Multiform which is a type of brain cancer that he had fought for nearly 4 years. This was a very hard time for me and my family, but was also a very large motivation push for to continue my hopes of getting into Medical School. It also was the motivation for me to research and study cancer and everything involved with it. I would like to either head my own research project or at least be apart of a research project here at USD that focuses on the study of cancer and learn more about something that is so personal and interesting to me. This is a very tough goal because there is already so much research being done on cancer, and so much already being discovered everyday. But I think that with the right people, the right idea, and the right connections here at USD, it is still something that I look forward to and hope to have the opportunity to apart of at some point of my time