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I am interested in studying dentistry to pursue a career focused on interacting with people, assisting them to be healthy and more confident with their smile. Whilst shadowing GDP's I realised dentists build a rapport, put the patients at ease and work by putting their needs first to give positive t

As a student at an international school since the age of 5, I have experienced a culturally rich and ethnically diverse population throughout my life. Awarded as an active member of IBDP Theory Of Knowledge, I enjoy discussions on anthropological and sociological matters such as cultural bias, trans

I have never been able to perceive language and literature as separate disciplines. Rather, I have viewed them as a single academic unit: a literary work relies on the elements of language to facilitate its expression, and language inherits meaning through its place in literature. This intrinsic lin

Personal Statement – Draft Following my first work experience at a small internet start-up, I witnessed first-hand the real-life application of Theory of the Firm; how simple economic models of demand and elasticities influence pricing and sales of items, alongside the impact that breakthrough techn

All my life I have been fascinated by people, how they think and behave and how society influences this behavior. Although I moved to the UK at a young age, I was born in South Africa, which is where my family originate from, and so I have been exposed to two vastly different cultures throughout my

A little girl on a construction site, the child in the hardhat, the one nobody acknowledges. Six years later, this little girl still loves to visit construction sites, having observed the impact Kenya's civil engineers have had through the Standard Gauge Railway, the Thika Superhighway and Africa's

Angels grant wishes in ancient mythology. Now, angels are engineers who grant disabled children their wish to walk again by giving them robotic limbs. During my childhood, I thought that robotic limbs were only possible in science fictions. Engineers transform ideas into reality. Physics can explain

I believe that the primary purpose of education is to improve one’s ability to recognise and appreciate value. I have found linguistics and philosophy to be two of the greatest means to this end. Linguistics, because language is our primary way of expressing ideas. And philosophy because it is the t

How am I writing this statement? I refer to process, not content. I want to know how the cells in the 3 pound lump of fatty tissue in my skull has released chemical signals to be relayed down the nerves in my arms and made the muscles in my fingers contract; how the visual cortex has deciphered the

The Arab Spring Movement sparked a key realisation for me. I consciously recognised the privileges I had been granted growing up in a democratic country and I came to understand that free and fair systems are still not practised worldwide. Whilst democracy, free enterprise and human rights have flou

Literature has always been central in my life. My drive to pursue English academically was sparked at the age of fifteen, when I read Les Miserables and was enchanted with Hugo’s vast narrative, a profound panoramic portrayal of love in all its forms. Since then I have been fascinated by how writers

Civil engineering is the key to the infrastructure that is the foundation to our civilisation and without this discipline, our society would fail to function. The Shanghai Tower first drew my attention to the field. Its’ 120-degree twisting structure with a glass skin facade, not only reduces the ef