Welcome to my Digital Profile "Good writing is about telling the truth. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are." - Anne Lamott
Biography
My name is Brianna Escalante and I am 19 years old. I’m currently a freshman at Delaware County Community College. I am majoring in Natural Sciences, which is a transfer degree. I plan on transferring to University of Sciences. From USciences, to then transition into medical school. In my free time, I like to catch up on a good read or paint. Since I am mainly overwhelmed with school work I avoid reading( aka brain break). Painting helps that relaxes my mind and brings me peace. I love painting because I feel like it is the easiest way to learn more about yourself as well. Meaning, through my painting I can tell what kind of person I am such as qualities/characteristics. For example, at a painting class, everyone is painting the same picture but in their own way. My painting can be well-organized and “peaceful” whereas another person's painting can be “beautifully” cluttered. (There's a picture below). For a job, I work at a trauma center (trauma hospital) in the Emergency department as a medical scribe. Meaning, I am seeing patients with the physician throughout my shift and documenting their symptoms and the differential diagnosis. It is a very intense position and contains a lot of mental and physical stability. I say this because, one night you can have a good day and the next you could have a patient die. I love this job 1000% percent because I am the physician's right-hand “mans”. I am becoming invasively close with them which causes me to have more leverage on networking (building "connections") and knowing how to diagnose patients. Working in the medical field before I start medical school gives me more reason to keep going and reminds me why I chose this career path. My favorite writer is Rupi Kaur, her poems and performances are creative and beautifully written. As for composers, Jorja Smith, Sabrina Claudio, and Alina Baraz. These girls have beautiful voices and their music makes me feel at peace. When stressed I enact on writing in my journal. This usually happens when I can no longer just “brush it off”. I find myself writing around midnight from 12am-3am. These hours are late but, strangely I am always up around this time in my thoughts. Everyone has a story of what they went through in the past. With my story, it has made me wiser, humbled, outgoing, loving and strong. Writing is something that has helped me deal with my pain and prevented it from eating from the inside. It has helped me gain control and recognition of who I am. Of course, it benefits me on becoming a stronger wrtiter. For my English Composition I course, I hope that I will gain new skills with writing and excel with grammar and etcetera. For more insight into my personality, please review my answers to the Proust Questionnaire (with a link to the blog post).