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Future aspirations
Rupert Blackwell
What would you like to do in the future?
I’m torn between studying History at university, doing Law conversion or working as a teacher to DSL capacity (like Mr Gregory). Some people are happy working in an office but my fulfilment comes from helping people and feeling that I’ve done something. Peer Mentoring has helped a great deal. Helping others makes you look back to when you were at that age or stage in life, and you can understand the problem and help them.
Do you do any Purple Time activities?
Choir and Biology drop-in sessions.
Mariella Houweling
What are you going to do next?
I’m going to study Medicine, it’s a 6 year course. Edinburgh is my first choice, Cardiff my second. I might have a gap year to gain work experience.
I’d also like to do a ski season, I want to teach youngsters. I want to have a break after A Levels before I start university.
The Personal Statement talks we’ve had are really helpful, even though I’m not going to university immediately. I get support from all the teachers, even those who don’t teach me.
How did Seaford’s Community Day inspire you?
I went to St Richard’s hospital and I was approached by one of the doctors who’d been told I want to study medicine so I shadowed her for the afternoon! I watched a lung being drained and a cannula being put in an arm. I would love to be a surgeon, I want to help people. Medicine can help to change people’s lives for the better. I decided to go into medicine after I’d read a couple of books by my favourite author, Tess Gerritsen (she used to be a doctor) and I just got interested in it and did more research.
“I love Seaford because it’s a microcosm of society in which you can meet people from all walks of life.” Hannah Wardrop
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