A Star in a Pipette by Emily

A Star in a Pipette by Emily - June 2017 Scholarship Essay

Lights, camera, action! All eyes are on me. I walk out on the stage and the audience is on their feet applauding for being blessed with my mere presence. I open my mouth and then I heard a bang at the door.
"Are you pretending that you're rich and famous again? You're not a goddess you know. Now hurry up, I want to use the bathroom!" my four year old brother painfully reminded me.
"Well, just you wait! You'll see, soon enough." I sneered at the closed door.
"What do you want to be when you grow up?" was the question I got from almost everyone I spoke to. Being the dramatic child I was, I responded with,
"An actress, duh! Or the next Hannah Montana. I don't really care, as long as I am famous." I replied with a flip of my hair and shrug of the shoulder. Unfortunately, I had as much talent as a bar stool and a voice equivalent to to that nails on a chalkboard. Despite my lack of talent, I killed the part of ensemble in every play and harmonized in every choir performance. At least I imagined I had. Elementary school choirs are not always regarded with high talent. Despite my parents cursing me with a lack of performing art genes, that dream stayed alive until I walked into freshman year biology class. I was only taking it because it was required, but that awoke the sleeping science brain that laid patiently dormant for 14 years. Everything clicked and I fell in love. Goodbye Hannah Montana and hello dihybrid linked genes in genetics! My tunnel vision had stopped me seeing from what I was destined for, science! I am currently enrolled in every science course we offer at a higher level.
After visiting a run-down hospital in Haiti overflowing with helpless people, I cam across a child with a laceration down the side of their leg patiently waiting for help that seemed to never arrive. I wanted to help so badly, but I didn't know how. That day I decided I wanted to save lives. I was destined too. I since then combined my passion for science and helping people, and I have my sights set on medical school. I wanted to help that poor girl. I wanted to help everybody. I don't want to feel helpless again.
If you asked me 11 years ago, I would have said I wanted to be an actress. If you ask me today, a doctor. If you ask me in ten years, if I'm not in medical school, then I will hopefully be in the job I am destined for. My high school education has taught me that I am capable of helping people and achieving anything I want to. I am hoping a college education will continue that path and out those dreams into action. As I've grown up, my dreams never became less jurassic, I've just gained insight on how to achieve it.