My Name is Brandon Richardson. I am Nineteen years old and I attend the college known as New York City College Of Technology. The name of the degree that I am going for is a bachelors in Radiology And Medical Tech Imaging. I believe that with all the knowledge that I will gain within the classes I take throughout my college career I will see to be ready to pursue also my masters within Radiology and Medical Tech Imaging in graduate school. I have always felt a huge passion of wanting to be a doctor but yet again also try and be into the topic of technology at the same time. The reason for that is because I am very intelligent in the field of computers and technology but however I do have a dream of being a doctor and when you put that together with the fact that Radiology has to do with scanning the body and MRI’s and etc, It combines both those subjects together. Technology is something that is needed everywhere but especially with hospitals. Ever since I was young the dream of me wanting to be a doctor was something that was so surreal to me that I would think about it almost every year growing up and then when I started working at hospitals and volunteering at hospitals, It strengthened my love for wanting to be a doctor. There are multiple reasons why I want to be a radiologist but the main 3 reasons are because I have a dream of being a doctor, also because I want to help people to live more healthier and stronger and somehow someway go about life in a better way & by being a radiologist I believe you can do that. My last reason is because of my love for technology plus my combined love for wanting to be a doctor which goes into the placement of being a radiologist. In the future I do plan on going to medical school after getting my masters and bachelors within my major and have the skill set to be a radiologist and for me to achieve my dream.

Now your probably thinking to yourself, “Well what could being a radiologist possibly do to make the world a better place or better yet, WHAT IS A RADIOLOGIST?” Well a radiologist first of all is a medical doctor that is specialized in treating both a disease and an injury by using Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). An MRI is a technique used by radiologist to use magnetic fields and radio waves in order to create an image on a screen of bones, organs & tissues in the body. Now for people who watch sports, when a person gets injured anywhere in the body they have go to a radiologist in order to check what happened to the place in the body where the injury occurred. Multiple injuries can happen at once so what the radiologist does is scan the body and see what is possibly broken in their body and what it bothering the person. This also can apply to diseases because the MRI also has the ability to form a image of the body and the disease that is inside the person, For example a radiologist can also check and see if a person has cancer based of a MRI scan of the body. It is something that Is very useful because most people may not realize or know that they have cancer until it is to late and the fact that you can check and process what is happening within your body and what is wrong in your body and how you can possibly heal it is an amazing thing to me.

As I said in the first paragraph, I do have a dream of being a doctor and ever since I was about the age of 6 when I first went into a hospital, I noticed so many things that sparked my attention. From the people that have multiple jobs within pretty much helping other people of different ages and different sickness or health issues was something that really made me understand that one person can truthfully change your life and make it for the better if they learn from their mistakes and get treated at a hospital. For example if someone gets a bad disease and goes to a hospital they can not only get help and get treated for what happened to them, they can also learn a valuable lesson that life is only short if you make it short. You can live to have a healthy life and live to have a even stronger lifespan if you treat your body right and also know the rights and wrongs of things you shouldn’t do against your body. Like how smoking and alcohol can really effect someone’s life is something so vital & some people don’t even come back from that. So at the time I didn’t know what radiology was nor did I know about any of the positions in a hospital at that. However though the things that grabbed me in a hospital was that you can make someone’s life better by instantly curing them and also just showing them that there are various things in the world that can shorten your life but if you take care of yourself you can live for as long as you allow yourself to live. According to the article “Why would anyone choose to be a doctor” by Danielle Ofri, she says this quote that “If I’m having a really rotten day in clinic, all I need is one of these new medical students to pop in, even if they make a long day even longer. The fact that medicine is still compelling enough for 17,000 people each year to commit a decade or more of their life to training is inspirational”. It shows that people really want to learn how to help others by creating all these new types of medicines to help others live better lives & people want to commit to doing so which is an amazing thing to me.

This brings me to my second huge reason why I want to be a radiologist and that is to help people live to have a better life and to make better decisions to have a more healthy life. You see people come in and out of hospitals these days whether it’s checking to see if they have a disease or if something very dangerous and life threatening happened to them or if their just coming to check on their daily check up’s to see how they are doing and if they need medicine for whatever particular reason. It’s always a reason for someone to be heading to the hospital. Now what they do after they leave the hospital is where the problem may be at. Like if a person has multiple sex partners for example and feel as if they get a STD test that maybe that’ll change them having multiple sex partners if they are positive in any disease and they find out that they’re negative, that can either change them to take more risks or to just completely stop having unprotected sex. I believe that some people come to doctors to be checked out but however I think doctors should also inspire people to just take care of themselves in a better way and to live more positively throughout their lives. Even when being a radiologist and going back to my point of scanning the bodies of athletes when they get injured or serious injuries that can effect there season or better yet career. They should also let them know that they should be more careful and be aware of the dire situations that a person can go through. Some people can change by meeting the right doctors who actually care about their health and not doing it just for the money and that goes for any patient meeting a doctor. I believe if you can change someone mentally you can change them physically and with that being said it’s almost like as if a doctor can be a psychologist in a way but also a doctor at the same time by just helping them to show that you can live a better life if you stop doing things to hurt your body in a way. I believe if you can help the world or the person in front of you in any way to live a better and healthy life then that’s one of the biggest accomplishments a person can achieve. It’s like saving a life pretty much.

My final reason for wanting to be a major in radiology and medical tech imaging and be a radiologist is because of my love for technology combined with my love of being  a doctor. According to the article “How much do radiologist make a year for entry level” by forest time and demand media, the average radiologist on their first year starts making between $330,000-$350,000 on their first year and then they gain even more money along the years with the more experience that they achieve. The money thing is just one little point of why I want to be a radiologist but it furthers my point however how much I know I would love being a radiologist because how much technology is so vital to my life and how also being a doctor is vital to me and when you combine that to make a radiologist and also include how much pay you get a year. It’s a huge boost of motivation to keep going in the path of being in a radiology major. I have always loved technology. No matter if it was even computers or phones or even devices that would improve something like a HDMI cord for example that makes a TV more high definition, It would always fascinate me on how much technology can be so effective in this day and age and that everyone needs it. Like why some people can take the stairs for example when there is a elevator powered by technology or an escalator that is powered by technology. There are so many things technology can do to help the world and it’s something that always made me want to know my knowledge on electronics and devices made in this day in age. So when you realize that radiology has to do with MRI’s and scanning the body which I find to be simply amazing based off the power in technology to check someone’s body, it instantly clicked to me that I want to be a radiologist and learn more things about the power of MRI’s and other things pertaining to radiology and how it is used. Hospitals without technology these days I think would be very difficult to sustain because how much technology has improved along the years and how effective it is to discover new things.

So in the future as I stated before, I want to go on further to get a masters in radiology and medical tech imaging. However though I know it won’t happen at the blink of an eye. Some people need years and years and years of training and school and knowledge in order to be that of a doctor or in my case a radiologist. A person has to be able to sacrifice at least 10 years of their life including college in order to complete the path of being a doctor or a radiologist depending on which doctor you want to be. I look at the path of it and it still is something that you can either conquer or let it conquer you. I say that because it takes a lot to want to be a doctor and want to save lives. You have to be nothing but dedicated and have a love and passion for it just how you would anything else that you want to be in life. So with that being said in the future I will sustain that of confidence and knowledge and drive and motivation to move further throughout the years of being in college and medical school to get to where I want to be and that’s being a doctor. When you have a love for something, that should also come with a drive to always complete your goal no matter the obstacle. After I finish medical school and finish college and achieve my Masters & Bachelors & Doctoral degrees it will show how much drive I truly had for the start of being a radiologist and helping the world from there

Work Cited

Ofri, Danielle. “Why would anyone choose to become a doctor”, http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/21/why-would-anyone-choose-to-become-a-doctor/?_r=0. Web.July.21.2011

Forest Time. “How much do radiologist make a year for entry level”. http://work.chron.com/much-radiologists-make-year-entry-level-21976.html. Web. Nov.7.2015

Brandon Richardson

Jason W. Ellis

ENG1101

10/4/15

My name is Brandon Richardson. I am Twenty years old and I go to New York City College Of Technology and my major is Radiology and medical tech imaging and after college I plan to go on the pursuit of being a radiologist and entering the medical field as well. I love playing football and I love watching football as well. I am a die-hard fan of the NY Giants. I have been a big fan of the organization for about 9 years. It has been a long time watching them go through there hardships and victories as a team but I also enjoy reading, swimming, relaxing, and photography. But those are preliminary things that I like. There are 3 things however that I love equally. Those 3 things would be Football, Music and Traveling. Those 3 things hold a special meaning to me because my happiness is at the highest of its extent when I am enjoying any of these 3 things at a time. But if I had to choose honestly 1 of those 3 that truly have a special meaning to me It would have to be Traveling around the world. To travel around the world has so much of a meaning to me because it really makes me have a huge outlook on life that I will explain further. Without the opportunity to travel I would feel honestly trapped within my own hometown.

When I first traveled somewhere I went out of the United States of America. I felt really scared at first because of the plain fact that I didn’t like planes but luckily I grew out of that thought as I got older. My first place I went to was Paris. I had dreams when I was younger to travel all around the world and explore different places and area’s around the world to see and understand and realize that you can see there are so much more things to life than rather staying in one place in your home area. The reason why I say that because the world has so much different things to offer from the people of different countries and continents or even from the cultures and area’s themselves and even the people and food and the lists go on going from area to area. Also the memories that come with traveling are things that stick with you as you move on to travel and I realized that on my first trip going to Paris and my first time being on a plane which is and was a truthfully weird experience. I say that because ever since hearing about how crucial and destructive planes are back when 9/11 happened planes always gave me a weird feeling but however it was actually pretty cool to take my first flight.

When I went into Paris I realized this place is truthfully like another world like most of the places you go to that are different when walk out of your home area. The air was different the place was different it felt like an old vintage area about the place. I learned a lot about the French and overall the whole history behind France and how it was used in the 1800’s and how important it was in Europe to most of the other countries in Europe. I then realized this whole trip by discovery of new things that I truly want to travel the world and experience new things of another country or area. Paris was my first love of traveling experiences. Especially when I went to see the Mona Lisa and the Eiffel Tower I realized so much about me and about how I was meant to travel around the world. Also the year after I ended up going to London I realized when I went there I noticed things were actually beyond different than living and growing up in NY and that the people there and the culture and the different types of things they do here are so different. London was a place of just history and beauty all at once. You learn so much from the history of London that makes you realize no matter how old it is, you’ll always see that it has its own type of culture and organic history of its own. Without that I believe traveling to a new area is really not all that if you don’t see anything new or learn anything about the place and gain knowledge of the place. Everywhere in the world has it’s differences and can be discovered of learning new things about it. So going to Europe was an experience because it was like a different world from NY and it shows why you should travel.

Traveling truthfully can have someone in complete wanderlust. What I mean by that is that when you travel to all types of different area’s all around the world you start to notice to see that there are so many different things that come with the place that may change your overall outlook on life. I always used to think to myself (well why do people always spend money to ravel to all these different places?) but then once I started doing it myself I realized that what comes with the plain fact that you can travel to a different place and learn new things is the memories that come with it. With a flash of a camera you can take a picture that’ll overall come as a memory to you or at least a reminder to your brain of a memory. To me as I grew up ever since going to Paris then going to London the year after I grew to realize that experiences traveling are worth so much more than materialistic things or things of technology or just things money can buy. But those experiences you can’t buy them. To travel to a different place that you’ve never been to is like creating a new memory within your memory bank that just stays with you when that place comes to mind. As I grew up from going to London when I was 13 I ended up at that same age having this dream of going to California and when I realized that, I had to make it my goal that I ended up accomplishing in 2015. To travel somewhere as I grew up made me understand that you have only 1 life to live and sometimes it’s worth the risk to go to new places because you never know how much life can be throwing at you and what you can be missing from this world. It has a special meaning to me be able to travel and have the opportunity to see different things around the world to learn new things and just overall make you a different better person to appreciate more things about life.

When I had this big dream of going to California It was for sure something I knew had to happen in order for my goal to be accomplished. Thinking about it for years there was so many things that made me think about how much of a different world California was. From the weather itself to the whole atmosphere, the palm trees, and overall the city area of the things you can do there. It just really looked like a dream world to me that I had to go to. So once this year in 2015 I finally made that the case. Going to California changed my life and overall made me realize one of the most illustrious things of life and that would be that dreams do come true if you stay on them consistently. Growing up I wasn’t to big on dreams because I wasn’t such a positive person overall because I always was a honest person and always hoped for the best but knew the best wouldn’t always happen. But as a I grew up I realized through traveling that when you go to other places all around the world you really get to see how blessed you are and how much knowledge you can achieve through learning about new places all around the world. The wanderlust is something that will always keep me going to dream about going to places and from there I will always make traveling a big deal every year of my life.  Traveling has taught me that anything is possible in life and when you realize that, the mind becomes unbreakable to have goals in mind always.