Rosewood Assisted Living Essay

Every Sunday I spend time with the residents of Rosewood Assisted Living, which is a nursing home that specializes in Alzheimer’s disease. I work in the memory care center which is where patients go when they can no longer remember things as simple as there name. It takes patience and some one who excels in kindness to work with them. Some days are harder than others yet I’m never discouraged from returning, because I know that I’m one of the only people who will talk and play three hours of bingo with them. It also give me experience working with mentally ill people. Because one day I hope to become a Pharmaceutical scientist or a Pharmaceutical Sales Representative.
Ive always been drawn to science since I was three or four. I never like Barbies or Polly pockets like my sisters but instead I had toy
To me my backyard was a forest to discover and with a magnifying glass and my Rockhound Guide I would set off each day to discover something new. When I was in eight grade I made the wrong choice of picking a baking class, after the fist semester I transferred into an all boys robotics class. Where I quickly climbed to the top and created things like a dog who did seven different tricks to a classic battle bot that conquered everyones else’s robot. I fell in love with biology my freshman year and quickly gained a knack for organic chemistry. Then my sophomore year I took chemistry which I hope to take again my senior year as an AP course. Now that Im a junior and taking AP biology, I've found a liking in forensic biology and Im actually turn our lab into a real life mock crime scene where I will show fellow classmates how to run DNA in electrophoresis and test blood samples. Now if I were to get this internship it would make huge difference in my science career. First it would give me the hands on experience I want in a lab. It would also further my love for science, because I would hope to do research on DNA, specifically