Behavioral

Describe a time you had to make a sacrifice

Main Idea

The main idea is to briefly describe the situation before talking about the skills that you learned and the positive outcome you achieved through making the sacrifice.

One time I had to make a sacrifice was when I had to prepare for my most recent research position.
Throughout college, I have worked on numerous research projects in the field of cancer genetics where I used the Python programming language to analyze vast amounts of cancer data. Consequently, when I heard back that I had received Mt. Hope hospital's summer research internship award for this past spring I was ecstatic. However, although the lab at... (+ 185 words)

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Mention the relevance of making sacrifices to medicine (e.g., sometimes you might have to make sacri... (+ 4 more suggestions)

Avoid
AVOID

Do not say that you have never made any sacrifices