Today I want to describe what profession I aspire to pursue in college and what began this passion for science. I am most interested in Forensic Science. The career I plan on pursuing when I am older is Forensic Pathology.
Ever since I can remember, the human body has fascinated me. Our bodies are way more complex than meets the eye. What astounds me the most is the fact that our bodies are constantly fighting off a wide range of intruders in order to keep us alive. The mere fact that we have the ability to breathe, walk, talk and think all because of the different sections and organs in our bodies. My striving fascination of the human body has influenced me to choose a career that discovers what disrupts our bodies daily function. In Forensic Pathology I would be able to work in a legal-medical field that uses science to identify how a person died or how the person was killed.
It all started when I entered the Mentoring in Medicine program in TMA that I was finally exposed to possible health careers. In that class we would dissect baby pigs, learn how to suture on a pigs foot, and explore ligaments and tendons on a chicken leg. It was exactly what science classes look like on TV. One of the events that affected me the most was when we went on a trip to an anatomy lab at Touro Medical College. It put all the systems I had studied into perspective. At first it was pretty nerve-racking, however, my nervousness quickly went away once I put on those gloves and began to explore the organs of a deceased person.
Ultimately Mentoring in Medicine has served a great impact on my choice of major. I am almost 100% sure I would want to pursue a medical career.
As we were handed our syllabus during the first week of school, I could not help but flip through the pages to see exactly what topics we would be covering this year in English. As I skimmed through it, the word Feminism immediately caught my attention. The word was one that had been jumping around in my head for the past few months and I was extremely eager to find out how the unit would turn out to be. To be honest, It was nothing I expected. Maybe it was because I couldn't make the connection or probably I did not put much effort into reading the books thoroughly. Whichever one it was, I did not receive what I really wanted from these texts; a definition. I wanted clarity or better understanding of what feminism really is and what is so important about it.It was only until the mere end of the unit that my expectations were met. a couple of days before Christmas break, Cheyenne suggested we watch a Ted Talks video on feminism which was of a speech done by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a Nigerian novelist and short-story writer. In her speech, she eloquently described how she had first became a feminist. What I love the most about her speech is that she clarifies what her definition of feminist is. "My own definition of feminist is: a feminist is a man or woman who says: 'Yes, these's a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it. We must do better' " She turns the dictionary's' definition into her own and points out that a feminist doesn't necessarily have to only be a woman, but a man as well.
Ultimately, what I got out of this video is that it is very important to be aware; Alert and aware about issues that we all believe have been corrected, because in actuality these issues are reoccurring and still exist today. Whether the issue is sexism, racism, or discrimination of any sort, we must all be aware of their existence. It's better to know than to ignore.
