Personal Statement

Throughout high school I took several classes like biology and chemistry and was a part of a club called HOSA (Health Occupational Students of America), which helped me move towards my goal. These classes and club helped me learn more about the medical field and how each job was different but each one was needed. Ever since my freshman year in high school I knew I wanted to become a pharmacist. I love the idea of being able to supply people with the medications they need and even doing research to find cures. I am going to major in biochemistry in order to achieve my dream of becoming a pharmacist.

I first found my interest in becoming a pharmacist when I was doing a career project in my AVID class freshman year. I was researching different

I was intrigued how evolution affected humans and animals and how they survived off the plants on the earth all those years ago. I wanted to know more about how people used plants and minerals to make medicine.

My sophomore year I took chemistry to learn about the elements and how they use them to make compounds. I was very intrigued in how one element alone could harm you but if you simply combine two or more it could be turned into something that could be the cure to a disease or illness.

It was my junior year that I took Principles of Health Science. While in that class I learned how medicine and healthcare worked all the way from primitive times (4,000 BC) to the 20th century. It was interesting how much medicine has changed since than. It made me want to research medicine and see how I could possibly make it better. I also was apart of a club called HOSA (Health Occupational Students of America) that year. In that club we had hosted the blood drive and I gave blood both times we hosted it and got to see the process which is taken when giving or taking blood and it was very cool and I realized that as a pharmacist I would be able to do that one