Growing up, I have always wanted to go to medical school and become a pediatrician. My family has always been supportive of that, so I have been able to continue on the path I want to be on. My sister-in-law, however, did not have the same experience. Her father has been working at a hospital for years now, and my sister-in-law wanted to become a doctor. At the mentions of wanting to go to medical school, her father just laughed and said she could not do it, which discouraged

Imagine arriving home. You received a letter. This letter has a letter grade in red ink. All this paper says is “F”. Your grade for your life up until now has just come in. You have no idea why this is your grade. You don’t know what mistakes you made or how to fix them. In school systems today, grades are handed out left and right without any students learning their mistakes or finding out ways to get back up from a mistake that was made. I believe intelligence can be measur

I am a college student with ADHD, and of course I take medications to help me focus. I believe that medications do help a lot, but if you’re anything like me, when you are off the medications you’re a completely different person. Throughout my years of learning I have had many ups and downs with the medications prescribed to me. I have been taking ADHD medications since the second grade. My grades were extremely low, and I was very hyper, I never listened to my teachers. When

Being a student athlete since middle school, I became familiar with teamwork and in believing that there is no "I" in "TEAM". Meaning, you can't accomplish winning by yourself. When the work is split up amongst a team, it becomes easier to accomplish a win. Being a student athlete, and having interest in sports (specifically basketball). Group work in high school made classes and learning easier, and now in college I prefer it over working individually. In my rhetoric and com