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Marinafons Posted 15 years ago
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Motivation Letter Msc
Hi everyone!
I am applying for Imperial College and I'm really not familiar with these motivation letters. I've tried to read some threads and wrote the following, which already is a version at least 10 times modified! Could you please give me your feedback? (I also hope there aren't too many spelling and grammar mistakes). Thank you!
Imperial College
January 20, 2011
Dear Sir or Madam,
I am applying for your Biomedical Engineering with Medical Physics postgraduate programme, for the academic year 2011-2012, something I really look forward to since I believe it is the best way for me to pursue my desire of working in research in the area of imaging techniques.
A few years ago I hear the words “a scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale”. Although these are not my words, but one of my idols’, Marie Curie, I really recognize myself in them. Evidently, for the time being I am no scientist, but an undergraduate student of the Integrated Master in Biomedical Engineering at ---. Still, the quotation perfectly illustrates the way I feel about science in general and the fascinating area of Biomedical Engineering.
This passion began during high school, when I attended the ‘Hands on CERN’ Masterclass at what would later happen to be my university, where I discovered Particle Physics. The lectures, practical activities and videoconference with scientists from CERN all made me become interested in and marveled by the area. The following year I repeated the experience and, in the summer preceding my university entrance, I did a little summer internship at the Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particles Physics (LIP).
This general interest in Particle and Nuclear Physics led me to my fascination for its potential and importance in areas such as Medicine and Biology. Diagnostic techniques such as PET, SPECT or scintigraphy, treatments such as radiotherapy and bioimaging techniques such as NMR or fluorescence spectroscopy captivated me because for the first time I felt how science and its advances could have a direct effect on our lives and health.
The discovery of this curious ‘fairy tale’ between the various fundamental sciences and Medicine explains why, when applying for university, Biomedical Engineering was an obvious choice for me.
The experience has been gratifying, enabling me to expand my horizons. As highlights I would refer my good academic performance, which allowed me to be in the top three of my class, my group project work about “Measurement of Brain Perfusion using Imaging Techniques”, accompanied by a tutor, where I became aware of the multitude of challenges each imaging technique faced, and also my role as Chair of Academic Affairs at the Biomedical Engineering Student Club, which allowed me to help promoting our course and getting to know researchers and entrepreneurs in the area.
Having had a good initial education and academic experience, I would really like to enhance my knowledge and skills in Biomedical Engineering and particularly in Medical Physics. Imperial College is an institution I have always looked up to. Not only because it is one of the best engineering schools but most of all because it is the one that in my opinion best embraces the concept of Biomedical Engineering, having been a pioneer in it. Still nowadays, not many universities combine the areas of Science, Engineering and Medicine and provide a variety of courses and research groups intertwining these areas. I particularly value the existence of a project work to be done during the Autumn Term, the active and world-leading research that is being developed and the state of the art facilities.
Besides the previous reasons, I cannot let the city in itself pass unnoticed. I look forward for the opportunity of spending more than a couple of hours at the Science Museum and Natural History Museum, attending the proms at the Royal Albert Hall or spending a good time at my favorite bookshop: Waterstone’s Piccadilly, where I can find all my 19th century favorites, such as Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dickens, Austen, Gaskell…
I do not know what the future has in store, but I would love to do research related to imaging techniques. This postgraduate programme is an ideal vehicle to fulfill my desire of participating in cutting-edge research, but also of, in a later stage, exploring its potential in finding solutions for the numerous health problems in developing countries, one of the greatest challenges of our modern society.
Thank you for considering my application, and I look forward to your acceptance.
Sincerely yours,
I am applying for Imperial College and I'm really not familiar with these motivation letters. I've tried to read some threads and wrote the following, which already is a version at least 10 times modified! Could you please give me your feedback? (I also hope there aren't too many spelling and grammar mistakes). Thank you!
Imperial College
January 20, 2011
Dear Sir or Madam,
I am applying for your Biomedical Engineering with Medical Physics postgraduate programme, for the academic year 2011-2012, something I really look forward to since I believe it is the best way for me to pursue my desire of working in research in the area of imaging techniques.
A few years ago I hear the words “a scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale”. Although these are not my words, but one of my idols’, Marie Curie, I really recognize myself in them. Evidently, for the time being I am no scientist, but an undergraduate student of the Integrated Master in Biomedical Engineering at ---. Still, the quotation perfectly illustrates the way I feel about science in general and the fascinating area of Biomedical Engineering.
This passion began during high school, when I attended the ‘Hands on CERN’ Masterclass at what would later happen to be my university, where I discovered Particle Physics. The lectures, practical activities and videoconference with scientists from CERN all made me become interested in and marveled by the area. The following year I repeated the experience and, in the summer preceding my university entrance, I did a little summer internship at the Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particles Physics (LIP).
This general interest in Particle and Nuclear Physics led me to my fascination for its potential and importance in areas such as Medicine and Biology. Diagnostic techniques such as PET, SPECT or scintigraphy, treatments such as radiotherapy and bioimaging techniques such as NMR or fluorescence spectroscopy captivated me because for the first time I felt how science and its advances could have a direct effect on our lives and health.
The discovery of this curious ‘fairy tale’ between the various fundamental sciences and Medicine explains why, when applying for university, Biomedical Engineering was an obvious choice for me.
The experience has been gratifying, enabling me to expand my horizons. As highlights I would refer my good academic performance, which allowed me to be in the top three of my class, my group project work about “Measurement of Brain Perfusion using Imaging Techniques”, accompanied by a tutor, where I became aware of the multitude of challenges each imaging technique faced, and also my role as Chair of Academic Affairs at the Biomedical Engineering Student Club, which allowed me to help promoting our course and getting to know researchers and entrepreneurs in the area.
Having had a good initial education and academic experience, I would really like to enhance my knowledge and skills in Biomedical Engineering and particularly in Medical Physics. Imperial College is an institution I have always looked up to. Not only because it is one of the best engineering schools but most of all because it is the one that in my opinion best embraces the concept of Biomedical Engineering, having been a pioneer in it. Still nowadays, not many universities combine the areas of Science, Engineering and Medicine and provide a variety of courses and research groups intertwining these areas. I particularly value the existence of a project work to be done during the Autumn Term, the active and world-leading research that is being developed and the state of the art facilities.
Besides the previous reasons, I cannot let the city in itself pass unnoticed. I look forward for the opportunity of spending more than a couple of hours at the Science Museum and Natural History Museum, attending the proms at the Royal Albert Hall or spending a good time at my favorite bookshop: Waterstone’s Piccadilly, where I can find all my 19th century favorites, such as Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dickens, Austen, Gaskell…
I do not know what the future has in store, but I would love to do research related to imaging techniques. This postgraduate programme is an ideal vehicle to fulfill my desire of participating in cutting-edge research, but also of, in a later stage, exploring its potential in finding solutions for the numerous health problems in developing countries, one of the greatest challenges of our modern society.
Thank you for considering my application, and I look forward to your acceptance.
Sincerely yours,
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