Throughout my life I have always been committed to my work and always had a long-term goal and interest in learning about the brain and becoming a neurosurgeon; I have a lot of influences since many of my family members have become doctors and surgeons and have become my role models to achieve my goal. Since primary school, I had seen myself helping and changing lives of others in the future. I feel that I have advanced this intention further by developing the necessary skills needed to become a neuropsychologist. This includes, being committed and hardworking as courses can be up to seven years long, being friendly and building a rapport with patients and put them at ease in stressful situations and being able to deal with stress myself in tough times.
I am currently studying for my GCSE examinations of History, German, Art, Sociology, Mathematics, English Language, English Literature, Double Science (Biology, Chemistry and Physics: higher level), Information and Communication Technology and Religious Studies. My reason for taking German was to extend my language skills, widening my communication skills.
I particularly enjoy History as I find it fascinating to learn about the experiences of people from a different period of time and the impact they make on society today. I also feel that this is a good subject to be successful in because it allows you to learn from the past and solve new problems that may arise. This is incredibly useful in neuropsychology, as you can see how individuals such as Louis Pasteur and Alexander Fleming overcame any setbacks and achieved what they believed in. I find these individuals particularly interesting because of their work towards the medicine and discovering cures of diseases.
During my years of school, I have had training with computers and have my own laptop at home, supplying me with the basic skills, such as Microsoft Office, that may be required to do paper work etc.
In years five and six, I was the vice-president of the ECO-council, the aim being to help the environment by setting up recycling regimes, building a new recreational park near the school made by environmentally healthy substances that did not disrupt the habitat around it & making rules in the school of using energy efficiently, e.g. by turning off lights when not needed & recycling used paper and card etc. In Year Eight, I took part in a Charity Bazaar in which groups of students chose a charity of their choice and made products, such as confectionary, to sell in order to raise money for the charity they previously chose. My group decided to do jewellery and confectionary to widen our market. In Year Ten, I took part in Enterprise Week in which I had to run a business for one week with the aim of making a profit. I was in a group of six and we set up a stall of Indian/Asian based food and henna, making around £60 profit each. I found this week incredibly helpful as it showed me what it is like setting up and running a business by showing the responsibilities involved in such a project.
Ultimately, I consider myself to be a well rounded, sociable individual driven by the aspiration to help improve people's lives by contributing to the advancement of healthcare. My own scientific ideology is based on the notion that society will always depend upon medical innovations to remedy all illness and bodily complications. Therefore, this is something I hugely anticipate and hope to achieve through a medicine course at university.