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biv0ns wrote:I don't meant to be a dick, but I was honestly going to read it until I looked at the pillar of text you put before me. Please edit it so that it is able to be read...

Bedsole wrote:Personal Statement

For the majority of people my age, life becomes clearly defined, or so we think, somewhere between the ages of seventeen and twenty two. There are those who find life’s calling even earlier, but for most people, it isn’t until we reach our undergraduate institutions that we can finally begin our pursuit in earnest. Most young adults base their futures on hopes, dreams, and what they intend to learn. For me, this ‘defining moment’ has been more along the lines of two years, and came later than I would have guessed. I spent my undergraduate years studying to become a high school chemistry teacher. In fact, I had the perfect scholarship for the job. I was a North Carolina Teaching Fellow, a program that provides some of the state's most promising future teachers with invaluable diversity training, cultural enrichment, and community service opportunities. I thought that this would be the perfect career for me. My student teaching internship proved to be challenging, rewarding, and at times, even entertaining. Still, something was missing. After being offered a few teaching jobs, I didn’t see anything in the field that appealed to me. Instead, I took a laboratory job at a bio-tech company, and decided to stick to the private industry. The money was better, and it had much greater opportunity for advancement.

Initially, the money and advancement opportunities were the driving force for my choice of jobs. These motivating factors would only last for a few weeks though, as I started to see the impact of my work. Each task that I performed impacted not only my coworkers, but it was also a part of something bigger. Talecris Biotherapeutics, my current employer, is a business that makes blood plasma derived products, primarily for people with rare autoimmune diseases. Every blood sample that passes through the lab is representative of a unit of plasma that goes into a life-saving drug. From day one, I did my best to become a subject matter expert in every realm possible within the lab. I quickly became a corporate on the job trainer, which suited my extensive training in education. It didn't stop there, though. I have ensured that everything that I do from the time I enter the building is at the highest standard, and I motivate my coworkers to do the same. We work with the knowledge that every sample marked positive for a virus is a sample that we don't need to worry about, should we ever fall ill and need the very products that we produce. In my enthusiasm to do well as a young, up and coming employee, I joined multiple committees devoted to workplace improvements in ways such as job safety and morale.

The last two years have provided me with a new found sense of ambition and hope for the future. I decided though, that I could not limit myself to the repetitive tasks of the blood testing lab, however important those tasks may be. I needed a way to apply my finely honed communication skills, both written and oral. I needed the chance to make a greater impact, and with it all the necessary challenges. I sought long and hard over the course of two years for the career that could provide these things. After much thought, there was really only one career that stood out in my mind: LAW. With my technical background in chemistry and work experience in a bio-tech field, I noted how suited I would be for intellectual property and corporate law. What could possibly be a better way to apply my skills than to ensure that every contract, every developing product, every regulatory document would be legally sound? I can think of no greater impact on a company such as my current employer than that of the general counsel. It would be my responsibility to ensure that in the development and production of life saving therapeutics, the company was observing all of the regulatory and legal guidelines, including the intellectual property concerns that come up so frequently in such a vastly innovative field.

I had always hoped that I would discover a career that suited me and my diverse skills as a communicator and as an educator. In the last two years, I have discovered that career, and I seek to achieve this goal through an education at your institution. [Here is where I put a few of the key points that led me to apply to the school, and why those things make it such a good fit for me.] I hope that you will consider me as strongly as I have considered you for the fall of 2010.

Bedsole wrote:Personal Statement
For the majority of people my age, life becomes clearly defined, or so we think, somewhere between the ages of seventeen and twenty two. There are those who find life’s calling even earlier, but for most people, it isn’t until we reach our undergraduate institutions that we can finally begin our pursuit in earnest. Most young adults base their futures on hopes, dreams, and what they intend to learn. For me, this ‘defining moment’ has been more along the lines of two years, and came later than I would have guessed. I spent my undergraduate years studying to become a high school chemistry teacher. In fact, I had the perfect scholarship for the job.

I was a North Carolina Teaching Fellow, a program that provides some of the state's most promising future teachers with invaluable diversity training, cultural enrichment, and community service opportunities. I thought that this would be the perfect career for me. My student teaching internship proved to be challenging, rewarding, and at times, even entertaining. Still, something was missing. After being offered a few teaching jobs, I didn’t see anything in the field that appealed to me. Instead, I took a laboratory job at a bio-tech company, and decided to stick to the private industry. The money was better, and it had much greater opportunity for advancement.

Initially, the money and advancement opportunities were the driving force for my choice of jobs. These motivating factors would only last for a few weeks though, as I started to see the impact of my work. Each task that I performed impacted not only my coworkers, but it was also a part of something bigger. Talecris Biotherapeutics, my current employer, is a business that makes blood plasma derived products, primarily for people with rare autoimmune diseases. Every blood sample that passes through the lab is representative of a unit of plasma that goes into a life-saving drug. From day one, I did my best to become a subject matter expert in every realm possible within the lab. I quickly became a corporate on the job trainer, which suited my extensive training in education. It didn't stop there, though. I have ensured that everything that I do from the time I enter the building is at the highest standard, and I motivate my coworkers to do the same. We work with the knowledge that every sample marked positive for a virus is a sample that we don't need to worry about, should we ever fall ill and need the very products that we produce. In my enthusiasm to do well as a young, up and coming employee, I joined multiple committees devoted to workplace improvements in ways such as job safety and morale.

The last two years have provided me with a new found sense of ambition and hope for the future. I decided though, that I could not limit myself to the repetitive tasks of the blood testing lab, however important those tasks may be. I needed a way to apply my finely honed communication skills, both written and oral. I needed the chance to make a greater impact, and with it all the necessary challenges. I sought long and hard over the course of two years for the career that could provide these things. After much thought, there was really only one career that stood out in my mind: LAW. With my technical background in chemistry and work experience in a bio-tech field, I noted how suited I would be for intellectual property and corporate law. What could possibly be a better way to apply my skills than to ensure that every contract, every developing product, every regulatory document would be legally sound? I can think of no greater impact on a company such as my current employer than that of the general counsel. It would be my responsibility to ensure that in the development and production of life saving therapeutics, the company was observing all of the regulatory and legal guidelines, including the intellectual property concerns that come up so frequently in such a vastly innovative field.

I had always hoped that I would discover a career that suited me and my diverse skills as a communicator and as an educator. In the last two years, I have discovered that career, and I seek to achieve this goal through an education at your institution. [Here is where I put a few of the key points that led me to apply to the school, and why those things make it such a good fit for me.] I hope that you will consider me as strongly as I have considered you for the fall of 2010.

Bedsole wrote:Haha, weird. I grew up 5 minutes from the main facility, and my mother works there... so yeah.

Also... how does your boss work there, if you don't?