Passion by Adir

Passion by Adir - January 2016 Scholarship Essay

Every New Year’s Eve I am one of the thousands of people across the world that makes New Year’s resolutions. I promise myself to get into better shape; I could use a few pounds of muscle. I promise to save some money; medical school won’t pay itself. I also promise to be an all-around better person; be more kind, understanding, and patient, as well as give back more. I am happy to say, as I do every year, that this will be the year I make all of these a reality! But this year I decided to add a new resolution. This year, I decided I want to be a better student. And the best way to achieve this for myself is to make my New Year’s resolution to put more passion into my schooling.
Now before jumping to conclusions, let me explain what I mean. I am entering my second year at the University of Georgia studying Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. So it’s easy to assume that when it comes to my science and pre-medicine classes, I am full of passion. Just as business majors love their business classes, advertising majors love their advertising classes, and art majors love their art classes. But when it comes to my prerequisites required for graduation, I find it hard to put forth the same passion for these classes as I do for my major classes. I think I am safe in saying that many other students share my struggle.
Math has never been my strong suit. I am not terrible, but I am no Isaac Newton or Pythagoras. So when I found out that I had to take two semesters of calculus, I was not thrilled. I made it through my first semester with more long nights of frustrated erasing than I’d like to admit. My attitude on the class was more of a “just a few more weeks till the end” than a “wow, I’m actually learning and this is cool.” Unfortunately, I applied this same attitude towards numerous classes I did not thoroughly enjoy. This is a problem many students around the world face, if not all students. This is also what I hope to change for myself.
I want to apply my New Year’s resolution to every subject, putting more passion into all of classes instead of just the ones I am not looking forward to. By doing this, I hope to make subjects like math and literature and foreign languages more fun for myself. This will create a better learning environment and I can be more successful in these classes. Instead of looking at the negatives, I hope to embrace the positives and realize what all of these classes can do for me in the future. I could potentially bump my grades up a whole letter grade, or move from an A to an A+, just by simply putting forth some more passion to these classes. But, like I previously stated, I will also be tackling my major classes with more passion. Why? Because, while this can also improve my grades and make studying more fun, passion can be the difference between a good student and a great student. As well as the difference between a good doctor and a great doctor.
Applying more passion to my studies in a new resolution I will be pursuing in 2016. I plan to stick to it and hopefully will see an improvement in my academic life. If I don’t see quite the results this year, next year I will do the same and find better ways to work with more passion. I hope other students can take notice of what I am doing, and plan to do, and either promise themselves to apply more passion to their classes and schooling or model a resolution of their own after mine. Going into classes we do not have an interest or passion for is a struggle. But by just having the right mindset and working hard to put some passion into these classes, students, including myself, can make the semester or year enjoyable and rewarding rather than long and troublesome. This is what I plan to achieve with my 2016 New Year’s resolution.