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My Fascination With The Brain: Personal Statement
My fascination with the brain started at a very young age. I was that one girl that would watch neurosurgeons explain operations on YouTube, instead of being hypnotized by Nyan cat or any other trending video online. I would pretend to operate on all of my stuffed animals and could name most parts of the brain by age 12.
Just this summer (when I truly began searching for what my career would be) I applied to a medical camp at a hospital. Here, I came face to face with medical professionals across all specialties, from nurses to ENT’s to the person who flies the emergency helicopter, I saw it all. It wasn’t until the last day that I met a psychiatrist. I had dabbled in the thought of psychiatry before but never paid much attention to it. At
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