Colorado State University APEC Scholarships
How would you use this award to advance your career?
These past few years have been a tremendous journey for me. In high school, I had always been an insouciant person. I took pleasure in math and sciences and excelled in those subjects. Having picked my undergraduate degree in Medicine was rather an impetuous than facile commitment. I mentally conceived it was a safe path. Mistakenly, I was too verdant. I would not verbalize that life was being facile on me. Rather, I had been enchanted with great individuals that I never had to worry more than my particulars. The drawback was what transpired during my bachelor’s years. I learned that life accounts for all things and these things are enmeshed. I learned that though my parents consented with my decision, it was not without repercussions. On top of the sumptuous tuition fees, the business was recessing. To put matters worse, I was not able to contribute financially. Medicine consumed most of my time and they never wanted me to jeopardize my academic welfare. I learned withal that life betokens much more than being safe; it was about probing for your passion. Though learning medicine was relishable, the residency was another story. I realized being a doctor was not for me. I took my aptitudes for granted and it led me into dark times. I struggled through depression. It took months and much intrepidity to stop and transmute, to be serious about life.
As a child, I have always yearned to pay my own tuition and facilitate my parents’ burden. How they got right to where we are is even one inspirational tale worth sharing for some other time. As the eldest of the three sons, I optate to not let my brothers down. I wish them to know that if their sibling can make something consequential out of his life, so can they. Yet in all veracity, there is much more consequentiality stressed to what I am doing with regards to me as a medical student. In Indonesia, taking on a degree in Medicine designates only one thing: to be a doctor. There are virtually no other narratives such as being able to digress and get in another career with your medical degree. This faulty system has been the cause of dilemmas for students struggling in their doubts. Thus, many of them either submit to the path and not relish a consummating file or die endeavoring to find justification for their decision to drop. To add insult to the injury, the latter most likely comes with a negative stigma. To that end, it has to stop. I may not able to change the system, but I believe I can change the outcome and perception. I represent these students, the unheard voices, to prove to the society, especially from where I come from, that nothing is impossible. Mistakes are to be embraced and should not be subjected to ill-fated fallouts.
After culminating my bachelor’s in medicine, it took me virtually a year to decipher what I want to do with my life. In the second half of the period, being at Colorado State University has availed me most. I was able to endeavor different programs & courses as well as meeting with amazing faculties to whom I revered and have received much sapience and cognizance; a chance I never gotten during my bachelor’s years. I have decided to take on the M.A.S program in Data Science with a focus on Bioinformatics. I genuinely enjoyed it and it is no doubt my passion. All things considered, this scholarship will definitely assist me in voicing my statement and focus more on my academics. I may not be fluent with my words, but I want to assure the reader of this letter that I am always sincere and veracious to myself. For whatever transpires, I plenarily reverence the decision of the board and will perpetuate to strive for what is best for my future.