One can only hope to understand who they truly are. Many people go their entire life trying to understand, I am not any different these people. Life is a continuous development of one's self, a journey, an adventure, a roller coaster that shapes your life day by day, year by year. The beauty in life comes from that, the fact that life is ever-changing. What would this world be if it laid stagnant. Not to exciting of a place in my opinion.. With change comes development, with development comes growth and with growth comes knowledge and knowledge leads change.
This past year has been at the least: interesting, phenomenal, and definitely unable to summarize within a single page. I can only hope that I can semi-justify my life-changing year through this portfolio.
My name is Keavash Assani and I am double majoring in Biology (Biomedical Sciences) and Spanish, as well as minoring in Chemistry and acquiring two certificates, one in Spanish for Social Work and Health Care Sciences and Spanish Business. I am proud to call myself an honors student at the University of Cincinnati. This program has helped me grow and expand my horizons to levels that I never had imagined I would reach. Alone in the past year I have worked towards 7 honors experiences, all self-designed, grant-proposed and approved for funding. Encompassing many areas, my honors experiences have helped me learn so much. They have brought me across the world from Spain to Mexico and to soon be Puerto Rico. They have allowed me to engage in the depths of nephrology and hypertension research, to delve into the Hispanic community and research the patient-physician and criminal justice epidemics, all while expanding my knowledge of Spanish and Hispanic culture at one of the best universities in Mexico: Tecnologico de Monterrey. My experiences have been constantly shaping and remolding my very being. They have helped develop new ways of thinking and learning, gain experiences to better understand multiple cultures, learn life lessons from others experiences as well as my own, to become a better student, a better global citizen and a better person.
I hope that my portfolio is as entertaining to read as it was enjoyable to write.