Anxiety is horrible. It's affecting my life in several different ways. I haven't always had anxiety. I feel that the relationships throughout your life and experiences you have can totally affect you. That's exactly what happened to me. When I was in eight grade, I had a group of friends that I really trusted. I saw myself slowly drifting from these people as all friends eventually do. These people were very cruel to me throughout my year and this really shaped me as who I am today. I have never really been the same since. I used to be this loud outgoing girl who never had a care in the world. As I grew and my experiences with life grew, I ended up developing really bad anxiety, specifically social anxiety. I didn't notice this until my freshmen year of high school. I started caring how other people were looking at me, they way their facial expressions slightly changed as I walked past, slight comments I thought I heard, then I started really overthinking everything after that. When I got diagnosed with social anxiety, I thought I was odd or weird. I never really accepted it because my association on people with metal illness was they were't normal and I didn't not want to be normal. I started going to therapy and I associated this again with being abnormal. I didn't want to be not normal. My anxiety worsened in large crowds as well and how I saw the world. My breathing would get heavier, my eyes watery, my chest felt tight, and my vision got blurry. That was the first time I ever experienced a panic attack. It was horrible, I mean I thought I was going to die. I noticed this would happen whenever I got near large groups, speaking in front of people, or even driving. I wondered why my brain thought this way and why I had to deal with it. Anxiety is hard, it's really hard and living with it can very very difficult. I'm very excited to go to college and I know having anxiety can make it difficult. Going to a knew place in general is scary and I feel wanting to be comfortable has made me apprehensive about traveling far for college. I'm willing to push through, however, and leave my comfort zone and go to a new place to start a new chapter in my life in college. I won't let social anxiety hold me back and from the opportunities in my life moving forward. Even though it's hard, I want to strive to do more things in my life and not let my feelings of anxiety get in the way. I now know that I have it and I don't feel abnormal anymore, I feel empowered to try and not let it stop me from being great in the future.

As a woman who knows the struggles of the opportunities of women in this country, I aspire to change the viewpoint of women in the healthcare system. I want to be an ER doctor in the future and I want to help others. Helping others, is my biggest goal in the medical field. When I'm a doctor I want to be able to give people the care and help they need. Ever since I was a little girl, I always knew I wanted to be a doctor of some sorts and was inspired by people in the medical field. Science was always my thing growing up and I knew I wanted to be some sort of scientist or anything that deeply analyzed or researched something. This is when I knew I wanted to be in the medical field as many doctors have to research the human body and study it to gain as much knowledge as possible. I've always thought women were defiantly underestimated on what they could do. I love that most healthcare workers are mainly female as it shows that women are capable of so much more. I want to be able to be a woman who sets goals and standards in the healthcare field. I think due to stereotypical roles, women don't get as many job opportunities. As someone who is passionate about women's rights and the medical field, this scholarship means a lot to me because it's something I'm so passionate about. I want to help people, as I've previously stated, I want to be the reason others wake up the next day from something terrible. I want to be the reason people are able to go back home to their families and get a second chance at life because I was able to help them. That's the reason I want to be a doctor. I want to be a woman who can help others. Overall, I want to set standards, not only for my myself but for other women in the healthcare field. I want to do good and be the reason for good. Not only will my passion for the human body and fascination for studying it, help aid me in wanting to be a doctor, but my passion for helping other people too. I want to inspire others t join this profession, as being in the healthcare filed is such an amazing opportunity. Healthcare workers do so much and I believe it is important to give them the recognition they deserve. So I want to be a woman who works in healthcare.

Minecraft was a big part of my childhood and some of my fondest memories were from that game. I remember the reason I wanted to play Minecraft in the first place was because I used to watch LDShadowLady as a kid and I remember wanting to create a Minecraft world so badly. When I got Minecraft I played it all the time and made huge worlds. I remember expressing my creativity in a way that was my own. The fun thing about Minecraft is the fact that you can't let your endless imagination run wild and create a world through your own artistic point of view. I enjoyed building homes which taught me many creative skills and certain building really had your brain thinking. As an artist now, Minecraft biomes and certain things I would build, really helped me shape things to how I draw them today. I enjoy Minecraft not only because it was a big part of my childhood but because it helped shape my creativity through my youth. My childhood expressed through a video game that I believed shaped many children's childhoods. I used to play Minecraft as a way to escape reality and escape in my own mini world in the game. It helped me as an escape but as a way to express my creativity.