About Me

My name is Pooja Dasgupta and I am from Long Island, New York. I am currently a freshman at St. John University studying pharmacy. I am a hardworking, friendly individual striving for success. I aspire to become a pharmacist because of my love and passion for the sciences and desire to help others. Since I was a young girl, learning about the human body and the way it reacted with other substances has always interested me. In addition, after having family members diagnosed with life-threatening diseases and noticing how much of a positive impact medicine and their doctors made on my family, I realized that I also want to make as significant of an impact on other peoples' lives.

While I love learning about the sciences specifically biology and chemistry, my other hobbies include art, traveling and giving back to my community. One of my favorite things to do is to draw in my sketchbook after a long stressful day. Art has played an important role in my life as it fuels my creativity and also acts my therapy letting me destress at the same time. Drawing provides me with an outlet to tap into my creativity and as a result, also strengthens my problem-solving skills.

I have been very grateful in my life and have been blessed with many opportunities to see other cultures in the world by traveling. My most recent trip was to London at the end of August. This trip was amazing and I absolutely fell in love with Europe. My family and I were able to visit Buckingham Palace, the London Eye, Westminister Eye, the Shard and even Shakespeare Globe Theatre. I have always had the dream to visit London and it certainly did not disappointing.

London

Another trip I made was to Peru in the summer of 2018. This trip will always hold a special meaning in my heart as the trip was actually a mission trip aimed to help children with disabilities. My friends and I traveled down to Chaclacayo, Peru to the Hogar San Francisco de Asis and helped take care of the children living there. The children at the Hogar all have severe medical conditions from spinal bifida, three-degree burns, and cleft palettes. We took care of the children by taking them to the park to play, eating meals with them and taking them to surgeries in Lima. I learned a lot from this experience from Peru, but most importantly I learned to appreciate the small things in life. These children have life-threatening illnesses, however, no one would assume that they are going through pain as the children always remain happy. Even though, their illness limits them from doing common everyday things, like walking, they understand that it is a blessing to be alive and definitely make the most out of it!

Peru

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