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Letter of Motivation
“We animals are the most complicated and perfectly designed pieces of machinery in the known universe”, as stated by Richard Dawkins in his preface to first edition of the most famous and widely read book “The Selfish Gene”, the statement is the best reason why I choose the subject Biology after my school years. It’s all about life and complexity. To study life is to study the improbable phenomenon. Also, with biology, I felt I would be able to achieve a hands on interaction with nature to explore the mysteries which I still relish doing.
I am Suraj Narayan Shrestha, originally from Damauli, Tanahun, Nepal; it lies 150 km west of Capital City, Kathmandu, Nepal. I completed my school at my home town and then, I moved to the capital city for further study and for better future. My family belongs to a farmer community and we were larger family with six sisters and two brothers above me as I am the youngest child of theirs. Despite being illiterate and big family members, my family always focused for the academic excellence in us and about half of us are university graduates and rest are college graduates. My mother cannot read and write a single letter but still she can calculate basic mathematics faster than I do which inspires me for my academic achievements as well as intellectual development that “Practice makes perfect.” After a year gap during 2000, due to deceased of my father, I managed to overcome the grief to strengthen my academic career and I continued my undergraduate degree to pursue my dream for innovative changes in the field of Biology.
I took Microbiology as my major for my undergraduate degree as microorganisms have always engrossed me due to their existence since primeval times, and they’re st...

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...al and, potential use of the information for the development of specific antimicrobial agents against the disease with its target on cell wall. This was how I got interested in the Microbiology department of your university.
The great Richard Feynman once said, “The things that have been found out are the yield, the gold, the pay you get for all the disciplined thinking and hard work. The work is not done for the sake of an application. It is done for the excitement of what is found out.” I find myself belonging to the same school of thought to some extent. Still, during my stay as a graduate student, I wish to involve myself in research works on microbial pathogenesis and disseminating ideas that I would have gained during my academia. Contributing some progressive ideas into this vast body of knowledge would be more than fulfilling.

Suraj Narayan Shrestha

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