A STEPPING STONE FOR A BIG DREAM
A newly graduate high school student nowadays wonders what appropriate course to take. Some take up courses that their parents want them to take while others choose what their friends choose too. Before I took up Bachelor of Science in Medical Technology at University of La Salette, my primary reason was that I wanted to be a doctor and they say Medical Technology is the best pre-med course. However, as months passed by, I started to realize that it was a best choice to take medical technology because the modernized medical technology can give me the power to be able to answer some questions such as how it is possible to treat and look after an unconscious patient with simply knowing what is going on inside his/her body without any surgery which can make a very big difference to any surgical treatments. Imagining my life as a Medical Technologist few years from now gives me an unexplainable excitement to know how it became too possible that even one of the world’s most powerful explosives can eventually be used to treat heart conditions and also how one of the most dangerous poisons could save people’s lives. Through the technology now used by Medical Technologists, I will be able to understand those kinds of unbelievable instance clearly. If I become Medical Technologist, my work-related learning is much more than the job opportunity. I also believe that it is the most accurate opportunity that involves knowledge and skills in pursuing my future in the broad range occupational areas that are available. I am also planning to proceed as a surgeon specializing on either cardiology or neurology. But on instances, I also want to become a Pathologist which made the Medical Technology become the most appropriate and suited course that I need to take.
In my beginning as a student taking up Medical Technology at University of La Salette, I already showed and demonstrated my leadership capacity in every activities when I was in my freshman year. I am often elected as the class President and a first-year representative in Phismet Club, an organization of students taking up medical technology. Until now in my sophomore year, I am still elected as the class President and an officer of the Phismet Club. Being re-elected in a certain organization means that the members really believed in your capacity as an effective leader to them. And to be an effective leader, you should be able to perform your responsibilities whole-heartedly and be able to have an intimate relationship with your members. I believe that I’m an example of an effective leader because I possessed an air of self-assuredness and I have a way of being confident in my actions, even if that action is confidently (and wisely) admitting that I am unsure of something. I have an honest self-assessment process, which results in a steadiness that others are drawn to and are willing to follow me. A leader should also affiliated with a sense of relating with others because relating to someone is the beginning of a good friendship. But we cannot relate to someone if we have not had the same or similar experiences as they have. In my experience as a leader, possessing humility gives me the capacity to relate to everyone. I put myself in the level of whomever I am speaking. To really listen to others, I silenced my ego and give the floor and the moment to the other person. In this way, I can learn from them which is very important to my personal overall growth as I mature. Relating with others is very significant because everyone we meet is a teacher, in some way which can help us in the present or in the future of our lives, only if we are willing to listen and learn.
Being a leader also has to emerge to act as a strong role model and provide inspirational motivation for everyone. Lately, I’ve been involved in many community activities in our school. My greatest achievement was our First Aid Training that was held last February 8-9, 2014 at University of La Salette. We, students taking up medical technology, were trained how to give basic first aids to those people who committed accident. As a result, I was awarded as the Best First Aider of the Year 2014 which makes me an inspiration to my co-students. Moreover, I also actively participated in big activities of our school such as the First North Luzon Phismets Congress held at University of La Salette, Santiago City. Many schools coming from different regions in Luzon have also participated. Within two days, the said Congress had given me the chance to meet other students from different places and I really learned a lot from them. From every activities we engaged, it helped me to bring great ideas and to enhance my leadership skills. My involvements from these activities were treasured moments because sooner or later this experiences will help me to apply it in certain life-situations and will shape me to be a good Medical Technologist someday.