My name is Amanda J.C. Ramkissoon and I am currently a Math
and Sciences major at LaGuardia Community College. My main goal is to attain an
Associate’s Degree in Science by the end of this current semester and graduate
in June 2012. My educational career plans beyond that is to start my Bachelor’s
Degree in Science, specifically Biology at the City University of New York and
also enter the University’s Physician’s Assistant degree program. Going beyond
that, I intend on entering medical school if once my GPA is competitive enough
to specialize in Dermatology.
As peculiar as it sounds, based on my journey throughout
LaGuardiaCC and the courses that I have taken, I find that I would be beyond a “science
person” and would have to consider myself as both, or at least potentially.
Both humanities and science have positive attributes to society and although it
is a bit difficult at this point for me to connect them as completely in sync topics, I
know they are both the leading and most enriching focuses of study. There are
many positive and negative things majors of the opposing studies could draw,
but in the end, one must be able to take the information learned, utilize it
and apply it to the present/ future for the benefit of societies.
Science is generally a topic that I would accept as most
viable because of the never ending facts and computed studies/ information that
it attains. Technology advances every day that aids the new studies and
findings scientist use to prove theories. The downside however with science and
technology, more specifically industrialization, are the harmful components
produced that cause harm to the ecosystem.
With humanities however, individuals can enrich themselves
by taking a look into history and thinking critically to note the pattern in
communities, the arts, finances, politics, etc. With this information, if a
pattern is noted, studies can be able to show both what happened before and if
it will happen again based on what is taking place now. The negative side that
science/technology people would counterattack is that humanities may not be as
concrete and may be on the liberal, literary and creative aspect. Numbers and
graphic data is what is the most appreciative source for science/ technology
people.
The fine line jointing the two together in my educated
opinion would have to be that with the historical data that was attained
through the humanities field, science and technology individuals can use a critical
mind to create the data charts, patterns and find a conclusion based on their hypothesis
to find a solution whatever the issue studied may be.