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My name is Ariya McDonald Uyeno, and I am looking for financial aid in order to attend a prestigious internship opportunity. I applied and was accepted into a distinguished medical internship at Stanford University - my dream school. The cost of the program is $5,385. This is my story:
I have been a straight A+ student for my entire high school career. Even throughout middle school, I applied myself to my education with only one goal in mind: college. As a junior at KIPP King Collegiate High School, I am now nearing the beginning of the rest of my life. To prepare for college, I have spent the last few years exploring possible careers and subjects to study. Becoming a Varsity travel team debater, I explored the path of law. Working for a private tutor center, I explored the path of teaching. Last summer, when I worked for a regional park, I hoped to explore environmental studies. I instead found my calling.
Working for a regional park, I encountered several medical emergencies. As a Junior Ranger, I communicated with police, first responders, and paramedics on a daily basis. I was immediately hooked. Expressing my interest in their work, I was given opportunities to work side by side with EMTs, cops, and paramedics. That summer, I learned how to give CPR, how to respond to a medical emergency, and how to take care of a patron until the paramedics arrived. On the last two days of my time there, I encountered two separate medical emergencies: both of which only confirmed my rising dedication to the medical field.
On my second to last day in the park, a coworker and myself responded to an emergency on a trail. A man had fallen out of a tree with his granddaughter, and had injured his neck and spine. I alerted the paramedics and first responders within the area and did absolutely everything I could to make him feel comfortable. The meager ice packs and bandages we had in the truck weren't nearly enough to completely help the patron, but they kept his open wounds covered and gave him some semblance of pain relief.
On my last day of work, a man in the bathrooms of the park suffered a heart attack. The closest rangers were called down to the bathrooms, and as one of the closest, I responded immediately. By the time I got there, the paramedics had already moved him to the lawn and were administering CPR. Anxious family members crowded the EMTs as they waited for a heartbeat. After a minute, the patron regained the ability to breathe on his own, and his heart began to beat again. I understood that the medics had just saved a man's life. They had completely changed the future of this man and his family. Without them, his family would have lost a brother, an uncle, a father - and the paramedics brought him back. The look of relief in his family's eyes was one that I want to bring people for the rest of my life.
Coming back to school, I applied myself to every aspect of science I could get. I researched high school classes such as Anatomy and Physiology, AP Chemistry, AP Biology, and Physics. I signed up for two science classes a year, and excelled in within my first two: AP Biology and Physics. I began to tutor my peers and students in Biology. I started volunteering my time at an animal shelter, where I am able to observe medical practices on animals and help care for injured animals, furthering my experience within the medical field.
This internship has been one of the most important developments in my path to medicine: a limited, celebrated opportunity at my dream school. I would be incredibly grateful for this opportunity, one that has the potential to completely change my life. For everything that I have worked for, for all the aspirations I have, I humbly ask you for a small donation to support me in attending the internship of my dreams.
I have been a straight A+ student for my entire high school career. Even throughout middle school, I applied myself to my education with only one goal in mind: college. As a junior at KIPP King Collegiate High School, I am now nearing the beginning of the rest of my life. To prepare for college, I have spent the last few years exploring possible careers and subjects to study. Becoming a Varsity travel team debater, I explored the path of law. Working for a private tutor center, I explored the path of teaching. Last summer, when I worked for a regional park, I hoped to explore environmental studies. I instead found my calling.
Working for a regional park, I encountered several medical emergencies. As a Junior Ranger, I communicated with police, first responders, and paramedics on a daily basis. I was immediately hooked. Expressing my interest in their work, I was given opportunities to work side by side with EMTs, cops, and paramedics. That summer, I learned how to give CPR, how to respond to a medical emergency, and how to take care of a patron until the paramedics arrived. On the last two days of my time there, I encountered two separate medical emergencies: both of which only confirmed my rising dedication to the medical field.
On my second to last day in the park, a coworker and myself responded to an emergency on a trail. A man had fallen out of a tree with his granddaughter, and had injured his neck and spine. I alerted the paramedics and first responders within the area and did absolutely everything I could to make him feel comfortable. The meager ice packs and bandages we had in the truck weren't nearly enough to completely help the patron, but they kept his open wounds covered and gave him some semblance of pain relief.
On my last day of work, a man in the bathrooms of the park suffered a heart attack. The closest rangers were called down to the bathrooms, and as one of the closest, I responded immediately. By the time I got there, the paramedics had already moved him to the lawn and were administering CPR. Anxious family members crowded the EMTs as they waited for a heartbeat. After a minute, the patron regained the ability to breathe on his own, and his heart began to beat again. I understood that the medics had just saved a man's life. They had completely changed the future of this man and his family. Without them, his family would have lost a brother, an uncle, a father - and the paramedics brought him back. The look of relief in his family's eyes was one that I want to bring people for the rest of my life.
Coming back to school, I applied myself to every aspect of science I could get. I researched high school classes such as Anatomy and Physiology, AP Chemistry, AP Biology, and Physics. I signed up for two science classes a year, and excelled in within my first two: AP Biology and Physics. I began to tutor my peers and students in Biology. I started volunteering my time at an animal shelter, where I am able to observe medical practices on animals and help care for injured animals, furthering my experience within the medical field.
This internship has been one of the most important developments in my path to medicine: a limited, celebrated opportunity at my dream school. I would be incredibly grateful for this opportunity, one that has the potential to completely change my life. For everything that I have worked for, for all the aspirations I have, I humbly ask you for a small donation to support me in attending the internship of my dreams.
Organizer and beneficiary
Ariya Mgee
Organizer
San Lorenzo, CA
Stephen Uyeno
Beneficiary