School Of Medicine

I will be a state champion. These are the words I had written and posted in my room as a high school senior. When I had downtime in class, I scribbled the sentence on notepads as a constant reminder of the goal I had set. The realm of athletics first introduced me to the power and necessity of goal setting. Luckily, school had always come fairly easy for me, but the sport of wrestling humbled me in ways I had not experienced in my young life. As a fourth grader, it forced me to learn new techniques and find value in improvement over winning. In middle and early high school, the sport demanded that I assess my strengths and weaknesses as the level of competition grew. Read More