Essay - Admissions Wow, You Spend a Lot of Time in the...

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Wow, you spend a lot of time in the lab!" she said smiling. "No wonder your grades are so awesome!"

Ann said hardly a word to me all year. Although ***** was in at least two of my classes each semester s*****ce I started at UTSA, I think th***** maybe Ann felt a little intimidated by me. ***** is an all-A*****rican college student, a woman from a small town Kentucky who had never left ***** greater forty-eight. The far*****est place she had been to away from her home ***** was Los Angeles. On the other hand, I hailed from far-off Japan, a country she had probably only read about and seen pictures of on telev*****ion or books. Because Ann was a science student and not a geography buff, I wondered in fact if she even knew where my home ***** was on a world m*****p.

A love to research!" I told her enthusiastically, conscious that I wanted to make friends with one of my only female classmates. "I th*****k it can be so much fun!"

She looked at me bug-eyed but continued to smile. "Yes I guess we all must like our lab ***** ********** or else we wouldn't be here, right? Hey where are you eating lunch **********?"

Ann and I made instant friends over our lunch***** discussions that day. She turned out to be an ideal classmate, one who ***** only supported my academic needs and interests and ***** ***** an excellent study partner, ***** also someone who could teach me more ***** American values, culture, and beliefs. One of the main reasons I chose ***** go to college in ***** United States was precisely for these kinds of social experiences: for lunches with my classmates and discussions about things other than ***** *****n major. However, I'll be the first to admit that I most preferred to include immunology in any conversation. That's why I learned so much from Ann.

***** conversations were always rich ***** mult*****aceted. She would ask me a few questions about my family, my c*****er *****als, or my extracurricular interests. Then I ***** ask her the same. Over the course of the ***** we became close friends who would do m*****e than just ***** **********, although studying for our classes was an integral part of the ti***** we spent together.

*****, ***** m***** of my classmates at UTSA, Ann al***** spent h*****s playing video games or watching television, activities which I honestly have little interest in. I would sometimes sit in while she and her roommate and ***** played ***** but ***** general ***** would prefer to watch the ***** of microorganisms in their petri di*****s than ***** reality-television stars. It's not that I am anti-social; quite the contrary, I relish the times that I spend talking with classmates over lunch or dinner and look forward to discussing things ***** than ***** science. For ex*****ple, ***** like learning ***** the different views of Americans regarding politics or religion ***** philosophy. With the elections