College Admissions Essay: The Day That Changed My Life

I am Cassandra Cleveland and I am Junior in the Health Sciences Program in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences. Along with working towards my bachelor’s degree in Health Sciences, I am also working toward two minors which are psychology and health administration, with a certificate in nutrition. I believe I possess many of the vital qualities and skills that coincide with a student in the Top 100 at IUPUI. In my short 20 years of life I have been through an immense amount of hardships and difficulties. I am approaching the five year anniversary of the day that changed my life forever. Everyone has a story that molds who they are as a person, and how they approach the new situations that they are faced with. Five years ago on January 5th, I suddenly became very ill and completely

Some of those are hypopitutiarianism, hypothyroidism, and adrenal insufficiency, hypo means below but not just slightly low, those three glands are no longer functioning in my body which causes many other issues as well. I missed a year of high school and was still able to graduate on time. The whole process really forced me to grow up much quicker than your typical teen there were so many new adjustments that were made in my life, I was fighting for my life. This whole experience really helped me to realize what I wanted to do with my future, I decided right then and their while I was in the hospital that I wanted to make a difference in people’s lives, specifically within the healthcare industry. I told myself that I was going to be a nurse, at the time I thought that was really the only way that I would be able to help and make a difference. After being admitted to IUPUI I began working towards a degree in nursing but I realized it would not be the best fit for me in the end due to all of the health complications that I am still dealing with and will always deal