Moriches Bay Personal Statement

As I got out of my car on the early, frigid, summer morning, with my heavy weighters in one hand and my scrub brush and other tools in the other, I walked through the dirt, sand and insect infested grasses, for about a half mile, to the bay. Sliding on my dad’s old fishing waders, men’s size 9 boots, which were way too big on me, and almost falling trying to pull them on. Stepping into the quiet bay, disrupting the gentle waves left un touches from the day before, I embarked into the bay, ready to spend hours cleaning ten dirty oyster cages, already more dirtier than last week when I cleaned them. The constant scrubbing and flipping varied with each cage, finding flopping fish or shooing away the crabs from the cage. Dangerously, falling into the water above my waders and my hands being covered in algae and dirt, never make me rethink my decision.
In the summer of my sophomore year, I found the Moriches Bay Project by looking online at community service organizations, because I needed, a required, forty hours to graduate. My quest for finding the Moriches Bay Project started off as a graduation requirement, but quickly changed into something I enjoyed doing, and could possibly do for the rest of my life. Being a farm manager brings responsibilities such as cleaning
And though the Moriches bay Project, I discovered I could actually do this everyday and decided to apply to the Drexel Environmental Science Leadership Academy at Lacawac Sanctuary, to confirm my decision to study in the environmental field. To my delight I was accepted into the program, and thoroughly enjoyed talking with professeurs and students in that major. Through Drexel University, I learned about environmental aspects other than oysters and marine life and was introduced to freshwater systems. I quickly became fascinated by both. But who knew a small little oyster could change my life for the