Hey everyone! My name is Othman Adil and I am a 4th year Neuroscience/Pre-Med major. I was born in Casablanca, Morocco on February 8, 1996 and made my journey to the Cincinnati, Ohio in August of 1996. I graduated with Honors from Walnut Hills High School and I am an Honors student at the University of Cincinnati. I am a Real Madrid FC fan, New England Patriots fan, Minnesota Timberwolves fan, a USC Trojans fan and of course, a UC Bearcat! My favorite music artists are Eminem, Twenty One Pilots, John Mayer, Majid Jordan and Chance the Rapper.
My ambition to become a neurologist began with a trip to my local library with my mother when I was eight years old. After returning Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, I walked through the children's section with no desire to read predictable third grade chapter books. In fact, I wasn't in the fictional mood at all; I made my way across to the "grown-ups" section, as the librarian would dub the area. I found a book with a giant picture of the brain on the cover. No one gave me the old "Don't judge a book by its cover." speech, so of course I wanted to see what this book had to say. I opened to a random page on the inside to find the section labeled “Optical Illusions”. There was a tiny cross on the left side of the picture, and a circle about two inches to the right. I was instructed to close my left eye and stare at the cross on the left side while I moved the book toward and away from me. The circle was gone! I had a “blind spot” according to the book, a part of my eye without receptors that respond to light, causing my brain to fill in that spot with white nothingness. At the University of Cincinnati as well as at whatever medical school I attend in the future, my goal is to study neuroscience and with the aid of the numerous research facilities, grow to assist those who live with this white nothingness daily, as well as other brain-influenced obstructions.
My ambition to become a neurologist began with a trip to my local library with my mother when I was eight years old. After returning Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, I walked through the children's section with no desire to read predictable third grade chapter books. In fact, I wasn't in the fictional mood at all; I made my way across to the "grown-ups" section, as the librarian would dub the area. I found a book with a giant picture of the brain on the cover. No one gave me the old "Don't judge a book by its cover." speech, so of course I wanted to see what this book had to say. I opened to a random page on the inside to find the section labeled “Optical Illusions”. There was a tiny cross on the left side of the picture, and a circle about two inches to the right. I was instructed to close my left eye and stare at the cross on the left side while I moved the book toward and away from me. The circle was gone! I had a “blind spot” according to the book, a part of my eye without receptors that respond to light, causing my brain to fill in that spot with white nothingness. At the University of Cincinnati as well as at whatever medical school I attend in the future, my goal is to study neuroscience and with the aid of the numerous research facilities, grow to assist those who live with this white nothingness daily, as well as other brain-influenced obstructions.