134 Yale University Essays That Got In

On her deathbed, my grandmother said she would always be in my heart. She was right. I feel her presence in the rhythm of my heartbeat and pour my whole heart into everything I do to make her proud.

My Saturdays during sophomore year were defined by shifts at the local antique store: from dolls to watches, working hands-on with antiques showed me how personal history can be infused into objects.

Latin 1 was the first real language class I had ever taken, and I fell in love with it. I developed a deep appreciation for the history behind the language, and had a brilliant teacher who made learning Latin even more exciting. When I was fluent enough to understand spoken Latin automatically, I felt an indescribable joy. I studied Latin in school for two more years, and started to love the language learning process itself. Meanwhile, my linguistic curiosity grew in other ways. While visiting a bookstore in Solvang, I came upon a book titled Jægerne, “The Hunters”, written entirely in Danish. I couldn’t find any information about it online, and the mystery compelled me to buy it. The challenge of translating a book spoke to me. I discovered, in my translation, that it was about a runaway slave in the Danish stone age. I was thrilled, not only to uncover a story, but to learn a new language. I became fascinated with the similarities between Danish and English, and eventually Danish became the language I studied for fun. When the pandemic began, I decided I wanted a new challenge: a non-Roman alphabet. So I started studying Japanese. While Japanese has been a struggle, I’m proud to say that I’ve memorized the two phonetic alphabets: katakana and hiragana. I still study Latin, Danish, and Japanese regularly, and I’ve developed a deep passion for learning languages that I hope to explore further in college and throughout my life.

Yale’s professors are trailblazing modern medicine as we know it, with Professor Kyriakides’s Biomaterial-Tissue Interactions promising insight into interactions between tissues and biomaterials, emphasizing stem cells and biomaterial-mediated gene and drug delivery. Meanwhile, Professor Fahmy’s Immunoengineering addresses exigent challenges in healthcare through the application of new developments in regards to immunity, transforming today’s doctors into tomorrow’s scientists. Joining either of their laboratories in elucidating immune responses to biomaterials or engineering novel cancer immunotherapies, I’ll eagerly unearth ubiquitous yet unexplained biological phenomena, leveraging them to innovate bioengineering applications in medicine. Yale’s Special Projects courses and Engineers without Borders program offer further pioneering opportunities to partner with students, faculty mentors, and community leaders in bringing to life my vision of engineering phage-based antibacterial agents, vaccines, and biomaterials.

I would invite Mary Wollenstonecraft and ask her if she thinks the concept of feminism popularized after her death, along with its waves and movements, has achieved her ideals in Rights of Woman?

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