My Personal Statement for UCAS application Draft 1 :

A career in Medicine is one that requires the application of professional knowledge, a love for life and mankind, and the ever-ready motivation to improve and engage in life-long learning. This career had intrigued me and is something that I believe I have the caliber for. I desire to be part of this noble profession that works with the mission to save lives.
For the past two years, I had been volunteering at two hospitals to help those suffering from disease. The volunteering experience allowed me direct contact with patients and I had since been more able better to understand the needs the ill. The interaction with patients at the hospitals gave me a personal account of how the doctors had helped to improve their lifestyles, increasing my admiration to the medical workers and indirectly inspiring me to want to do the same things.
In school, I have always been very interested in the sciences, especially Chemistry and Biology. The precision and objectivity of science are things that I like and am good at. Outside of the academic school life, I play the ‘ZhongRuan”, a guitar-like instrument, in the school’s Chinese Orchestra. We have just won a Gold award in the recent Singapore Youth Festival. I am also the Graphics and Layout Editor of the School’s magazine. In secondary school, I was part of the school’s Chinese Drama Society taking part in both acting as well as doing promotions and make-up as a backstage crew. Being a school Prefect for three years in secondary school had taught me organization and interpersonal communication skills.
I had studied Japanese for the past five years and obtained a Pass in the International Japanese Language Proficiency Test Level 2 (Level one being the highest standard). I was very fortunate to be chosen to take part in the Biennial Students Exchange Programme to Sapporo, Japan in 1999-2000 organized by the Singapore Ministry of Education Language Centre.
Last December, I took up a part-time job at the Science Discovery Camp organized by the YMCA and was leader who assisted the teacher to teach children aged 10-12 science in an interesting way through experiments and field trips.
In taking a medical course, I hope to specialize in forensic medicine or the endocrine system. The forensic science had been a branch of medicine that is not ‘well-received’ in an Asian society like Singapore because of the social stigma often attached to it. However, I will like to do something in this area of medicine especially since I do not mind the work associated to it. Having suffered from hyperthyrotoxicosis for the past five years, I am particularly interested in the endocrine area of medicine too. If given the opportunity, I will like to work voluntarily someday in the less-developed nations to enable the less fortunate to also enjoy first-rated medical treatment.


Questions: Should I include performing in Chingay parade?
Will putting in my medical condition undermine my chances

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not going for grad night... never enjoyed such occassions... (though I must say that the st nicks grad night was mmorable...) feeling guilty as that means that I'm abandoning my class and Singhui (my good friend in class) will be going for it without me... but the 'anti-desire' to attend grad night and the idea of having to go through all the trouble of looking for a prom dress and getting ready for it is enough to get me put off. sorry.... not that I dun like my class (though I like 4 Diligence better.... :p) just that I truly dun like these kinda things....