1- Jaylin Kim: Personal Statement

I think I’m a Pre-Med student, for now at least. While I should be taking all the so-called easy-A courses alongside the ones required to get into Med school and worry about keeping my GPA perfect, I signed up for this course in hopes that I’ll be able to gain something totally new, creative, and cool. With a family history of doctors, they all expect me to become one as well. But the truth is I’m not really interested in curing the sick, developing the cure to AID’s, Alzheimer’s and whatnot. What I’m really interested in is “beauty”: the ways to achieve it, the ways to create it, the ways to give it to somebody...
Medical school admissions probably wouldn’t like me with my kind of attitude at becoming a doctor, but I’m really not sure if I do ultimately want to become one at all. I humbly say science and math are my forte, but I’ve always been interested in visual art—from age three up until now. All this time, I think I liked visual art because I was good at it and it’s entertaining.
Using two of my talents, science and art, I want to “find beauty” as a hybrid art.
If I do become a doctor, a cosmetic surgeon, I guess that could be one way of “finding beauty” using scientific development and my artistic senses to give somebody a prettier nose, eyes, etc. In the meantime, however, I want to find different ways of maximizing someone’s beauty points, using fashion (a recently heightened interest) as art with a touch of science. Just how I would bring about this, I do not know and wish to investigate with the help of this course. Throughout the semester I want for my thinking to further deepen; hopefully I’ll finally figure out what it is that I can do using all of my talents, and maybe decide on a career path.

These are a few pieces from Eri Matsui, a fashion designer who combines science and fashion.